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⌈ Secret Post #3346 ⌋

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(Donald Trump / Milo Yiannopoulos)

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[Pathologic]

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[Legends of Tomorrow]

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[Tom Hiddleston in Crimson Peak]

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(How to be a Serial Killer)

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[Pretty Little Liars]

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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]

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really?

sure, Japan is pretty foreign to most of the rest of the world, but it also has the biggest culture diffusion

if you watched a few animes you know how to get by. especially if you stay within the limits of fanfic tropes, i.e nobody is written as older than college age, homophobia doesn't matter as much and everyone has enough money and time to hang out

Well, but that's the point? Should I assume anime are a good representation? Like, I don't think thins like Buffy or glee are probably indicative of (real) American highschool culture.

But if you're writing for Buffy why would it be wrong to use highschool culture as depicted by Buffy? Wouldn't it be weirder (and possibly OOC) if you ignored the highschool live that is shown on the show and wrote a realistic American highschool instead?

I would say it's more important that the writing reflects the school culture as shown in canon rather than RL.

I guess the tricky part would be writing stuff not directly depicted in the series? Which frankly is a lot. (Like, the actual ways stuff is taught for example).

This. If it's represented one way in canon, just go with how it is in canon. That's what readers are going to be expecting.

Ahh, the old, "I've watched anime so I know all about Japanese culture" claim.

It sounds more like "I watch anime so I know all about the fictional version of Japanese culture that's depicted in the anime that I'm writing a fic about, and since my fic takes place in that canon version of the culture that's all I need to know and that's fine" to me.

No, the US has the biggest culture diffusion. I can sing your national anthem, I know the outlines of your constitution and legal system, the preferred shapes if family homes, your school system, your issues with racism, all the US-actors you know, too, the names of your Talkshow hosts and much more simply by existing and having a TV. In a country that's far away and not english speaking. Can anyone claim knowing all these things about japan? I actually study japanese language and culture and I sure can't.

No... you don't. You know about those things the way they're portrayed in our media, and it isn't the same as they are in real life.

What, your national anthem is actually different? There is no Oprah?
And what you're saying is beside the point. I wasn't talking "muricans with guns at cheerleader bitchfight" or saying that watching TV makes me an expert on americam culture. It's not about the validity of certain stereotypes or simplified depictions of politics and stuff (which enough Americans will readily believe, themselves, like how the legal system works) but about how they are available and even ďominant everywhere in a way that is not the case with any other culture.

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