I've just wiped out my old feels, and starting anew. This time I will actually publish this stuff on my homepage, recording more personal stuff in my irl journal.
In addition, captions such as “WTF Japan” (an abbreviation for the rather crude phrase “What The Fuck Japan”) regularly accompany images considered strange in the English-speaking part of the internet.
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Serious attempts to understand the Shintō fertility festival are then moved to the background and the stereotype of Japanese as weird is enforced as a result... Chikako Nihei (2009, p. 89) argues that “[o]nce people form an impression of a culture or a nation, they will believe that they have enough knowledge”, and striving for a more accurate understanding then becomes superfluous. This is a central element of how wacky orientalism persists.
from Wacky Japan: A new face of orientalism by Wester Wagenaar