Is it a tragedy Japanese pop culture is / was uninterested in Africa?

[Nizam al-Mulk]

I am talking about movies, tv series and anime.

I am not sure the world could handle the insanity if there was big time interest in Africa from them since like 1979.

 

[Tatra]

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Yes it‘s a big concern. Keeps many of us up at night sometimes. Fortunately there are support groups.

 

[mozfonky]

I thought I was the only one, and how sad it was that being the only one, I might never be able to make my way over to japan and teach them and propogate the history of africa and it's people so that they could, fuck, I don't know. I did see a japanese porn where the girl fucked an african tribesman with a dick so big she cried, that shit was weird, well, she had a little african in her life.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

They're doing alright....

 

[mozfonky]

They're doing alright....

fucked up how bob allowed himself to be treated, like an animal, eating bananas in the ring.

No, i don't see the problem with Japan staying away from places they think of with contempt.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Rofl. Another Nizcan classic.

 

[mozfonky]

Rofl. Another Nizcan classic.

we gotta couple like him running around in this place i always get em mixed up because they always come up with shit like this. You just wonder if someone smuggled a laptop into a padded room.

 

[Lycandroid]

fucked up how bob allowed himself to be treated, like an animal, eating bananas in the ring.

No, i don't see the problem with Japan staying away from places they think of with contempt.

Bob Sapp degrading himself is pretty much the entirely of his career, he is the Tom green of fighting.

 

[mozfonky]

Bob Sapp degrading himself is pretty much the entirely of his career, he is the Tom green of fighting.

yes, he did. No self respect whatsoever.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I thought I was the only one worrying about this.

 

[moreorless87]

fucked up how bob allowed himself to be treated, like an animal, eating bananas in the ring.

No, i don't see the problem with Japan staying away from places they think of with contempt.

Was there ever any overtly racist stuff like that around Sapp? I know Randleman had the Donkey Kong intro vs Mario Saku.

I spose its not really for me to say as a western white guy but this kind of stuff did seem a little more innocent in Japan than it would be in the US. Not to say there isnt a lot of really unpleasant racism in Japan(espeically against Japanese with a black parent, which wasnt so uncommon with US soldiers stationed there) but I think the pop culture stuff like this and generally playing up cliches around black americans seems a bit different to that.

 

[mozfonky]

Was there ever any overtly racist stuff like that around Sapp? I know Randleman had the Donkey Kong intro vs Mario Saku.

I spose its not really for me to say as a western white guy but this kind of stuff did seem a little more innocent in Japan than it would be in the US. Not to say there isnt a lot of really unpleasant racism in Japan(espeically against Japanese with a black parent, which wasnt so uncommon with US soldiers stationed there) but I think the pop culture stuff like this and generally playing up cliches around black americans seems a bit different to that.

absolutely was, if you can find the bryant gumble episode from real sports on sapp you'll see him eating bananas and his original nickname was silverback. Japan was not the US and would have no backlash for that type of racism.

I watched it from the beginning, Bob was around my gym, partially trained by Maurice Smith at the time and watching a guy like that get opportunities because of how he looked, pretty much broke my heart in terms of my ever being able to do anything. He skipped right through all the small time BS that most fighters have to deal with because of how he looked. So, I'll say, I never liked the guy too much and told one of my fellow pals in mma that he had no integrity right from the point he allowed himself to be called a Silverback. He got paid though, that's all that matters in this world.

 

[TheMaster]

How about African-American culture being interested in Africa for a start

 

[SuperAlly]

According to the assassins creed guys, Japan are all about Africa and US hip hop music

 

[mozfonky]

According to the assassins creed guys, Japan are all about Africa and US hip hop music

the whole world has been caught up by hip hop, how does that translate to actual respect on a human basis? I don't know. Back in the early Jazz age, they had a term called "slumming" which was a term applied to whites who liked to go watch black people for their entertainment, it's not always respect just because people like what you do. One of my buddies is a black guitarist who can really play, most of his audience and his sidemen are white guys, I sometimes wonder if he ever thinks that he may be being used some sort of a mascot. I don't know, I never talk to him about it. He's small time enough that maybe it never really occurs to him in the same way it had to to major black stars who had large white audiences. It's a schizophrenic existence.

Japan is one of the more xenophobic places on earth, and that's for every outsider, not just blacks but I have read that Don King was beat down and depressed by his treatment over there, you read that right, Don King, the same guy who has caught hell and let it slide like water off a ducks back over here in the US for 50 years.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

the whole world has been caught up by hip hop, how does that translate to actual respect on a human basis? I don't know. Back in the early Jazz age, they had a term called "slumming" which was a term applied to whites who liked to go watch black people for their entertainment, it's not always respect just because people like what you do. One of my buddies is a black guitarist who can really play, most of his audience and his sidemen are white guys, I sometimes wonder if he ever thinks that he may be being used some sort of a mascot. I don't know, I never talk to him about it. He's small time enough that maybe it never really occurs to him in the same way it had to to major black stars who had large white audiences. It's a schizophrenic existence.

Japan is one of the more xenophobic places on earth, and that's for every outsider, not just blacks but I have read that Don King was beat down and depressed by his treatment over there, you read that right, Don King, the same guy who has caught hell and let it slide like water off a ducks back over here in the US for 50 years.

Cool thing about Japan is that outside of their history with continental Asians to a certain extent they can tell to anyone complaining about racism to pack their shit and leave their Island if they are not happy. The Japanese don‘t owe Blacks, Middle Easterns, Indians, etc. anything.

 

[mozfonky]

Cool thing about Japan is that outside of their history with continental Asians to a certain extent they can tell to anyone complaining about racism to pack their shit and leave their Island if they are not happy. The Japanese don‘t owe Blacks, Middle Easterns, Indians, etc. anything.

Never been there and no plans to go. Like I say aboutMexicans, why come here just to be mistreated? Again, self respect has its place.

 

[ThaiSexPills]

What are they missing from Africa?

 

[SuperAlly]

I've been to Tokyo twice

It's awesome