Western social justice warriors have once again become offended on Japan’s behalf, this time as a result of the Eurovision Song Contest’s winning entry.
Criticism of the Eurovision Song Contest has shifted this year from the usual claims of politicised voting and questionable music taste, with attention instead being drawn to the winning entry’s supposed “cultural appropriation” of Japan.
Cetacean Israeli singer Netta Barzilai won this year’s contest with a performance that incorporated a number of Japanese and other east Asian themes, including frequent use of the word “baka”, references to Pikachu and a dress that somewhat resembles a kimono. Naturally, this lead to a number of commentators to accuse the artist of cultural appropriation:
“WHY IS NOBODY CALLING OUT NETTA LIKE SERIOUSLY I DON’T THINK CULTURAL APPROPRIATION IS THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ISSUE BUT SHE’S LITERALLY PERFORMING IN FRONT OF A WALL OF LUCKY CATS WEARING SOME KIND OF ASIAN DRESS WITH SPORTS LEGGINGS???????? If y’all got offended over that girl”
“Can I, however, ask if anyone here has already commented on the quite shocking Japanese cultural bastardisation-appropriation going on in Netta’s song?”
“Netta: ‘Celebrating diversity’ – you do know that cultural appropriation is not diversity, right?”
“WHY is no one talking about the cultural appropriation in Netta’s performance? That was not cool at all”
“israel winning with this cultural appropriation bullshit……. are you kidding me…… i watch eurovision one time and it’s trash”
In the majority of cases, responses to these accusations were negative, with people pointing out inherent problems with the concept of cultural appropriation itself, as well as the fact that even if one accepts the theory, it can not apply when a person from a country as small as Israel imitates the culture of a country as large and wealthy as Japan.
Netta herself has proclaimed a deep admiration for Japanese popular culture and has a particular penchant for Pokemon. Perhaps appropriately, she has compared herself to Jigglypuff and Snorlax in an interview with an online British tabloid.
The incident is perhaps reminiscent of previous cases where left-wing activists have attacked art gallery exhibits and condemned little girls’ tea parties for supposedly “appropriating” Japanese culture. As in those cases, the majority of actual Japanese people seem to be rather confused about what they are supposed to be offended by, with very few criticising the singer for anything except poor taste. The following comments have been made by Japanese people regarding the controversy:
“Westerners care too much about silly things.”
“The millions of Japanese people with dyed hair must be laughing at this.”
“Culture is meant to be stolen. If it’s not worth stealing, then it isn’t culture.”
“If people keep claiming ‘cultural appropriation’ then people will not touch our culture. Then, people will not understand our culture and it will be easier to become our enemy.”
“In a contest like this an Israeli should use their own culture to win, not steal Japanese culture!”
“The clothes and cats are Japanese. The song is Korean. The make-up and hair is Chinese.”
“If someone properly uses and appreciates Japanese culture, then I respect them for it. If not, I just don’t care about it. It’s simple.”
“Are these people using the term ‘cultural appropriation’ properly?”
“She seems like Naomi Watanabe. I don’t like Maneki Neko though. That’s too much.”
“Is she Japanese? It all looks Chinese with the colors.”
“It doesn’t seem like the designers know much about Japan, but whatever.”
The performance can be seen below:
Murrika should be isolated from the rest of the world. These days they’re not contributing anything worthwhile anyway. Only a garbage like this and wars.
The EU is much more cucked with SJW trash but we just live in denial much like we pretend that we do not have a terrorist epidemic going on here in the little EU. European countries are the only ones that have a forced female quota when it comes to jobs and the faggy eurovision bullshit is filled with communist trash.
All your modern gadgets and basic “needs” like electricity where made by murrica. You fuckers would be riding around on horses and acting like you where amish still.
Electricity was made by America? You must be smoking some good s♥♥t, man.
awww he thinks china, korea and japan are part of america. how adorable!
America is the reason why no one would dare attack a Nato country. As the biggest contributor to the NATO defense, by the law of the charter an attack on one nation is an attack on all of them. And no one is dumb enough to do that.
Hate America all you want but are country will certainly outlive yours in the long run. Are founders weren’t complete dumbass that gave the government free reign to s♥♥t on their citizens individuals rights. Also want less wars then pay for your own countries defense but we both know its easier to front the bill to the US taxpayers (like myself) instead.
“Hate America all you want but are country will certainly outlive yours in the long run” with all the guns and the crazies in murika who shoot kids and mass murder cause they are insane just like the rest of murikans , yeah right cause more guns in peoples hands are gonna make murika great “again” , keep em coming, soon it will be only a desert full of violence and destruction for a country that always has been violent and destructive and that’s karma for ya.
hahahaha. don’t forget to mention that this darkjoe400 person cant even spell “our”. ignorance is blissful m8
“Also want less wars then pay for your own countries defense”
Yeah tell it to Syrian women and kids. “Sorry guys, you haven’t payed enough for your country defense (At least, not as much as North Koreans have), and we need your country to be our tool in our fuel wars, so don’t blame Murica, blame yourselves” :/
Haha feel sorry those women and kids live in such a shitty country that fapper on Sankaku Complex is pissing themselves in the pants with sadness. Tell you what Anon YOU go to their country kick out those mean old terrorist and dictators with positive thinking (don’t forget to bring as gas mask). While you do that America will deal with all the world problems like always because other countries are to chickenshit to deal with tin pot dictators (and have a decent military).
“America is the reason why no one would dare attack a Nato country”
LOL! Every sane person understands that Nato is just an excuse to expand towards Russia and China. Attack Nato country? Those countries are attacked every day. It’s just your precious mass media brings as if scary terrorists are doing it all.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Agree, burgers leftiest today have the same stupid moral concept like their previous generations have back in ’90 and before, sadly its much easy to spread their stupidity arround the world today. The worst part is that the young people is who lead this s♥♥t. And once again tell them in their face that their aren’t the moral guide of the world. Swj today act just like their “right and religious” parents and grandparents before
Its stupid as hell that SJWs live in a state of perpetual offense. They basically move from one “cause” to the next without fail. Virtually anything and everything upsets them. What the hell happened to cause so many people to become soft thin skinned fucks?
When fuckheads in political offices decried the use of the paddle or belt to discipline children while parents are fooled into thinking that anything wrong with the child’s personality is their fault and should be treated with therapy lessons and drugs, and that to correct a child’s attitude is abuse that’d get them arrested and the child taken in by Child Protection Services. These SJWs are a result of the government having too much of a say in the raising of children.
Without America the world would probably be like the rest of the world that is not America. Which pretty much would be pretty bad, pretty fucking bad. 80%-90% of media comes from America and even then things are pretty bad outside of America. I mean come on now.
80-90% of murican smoking weeds and gunshooting everywhere too, right its way better than other countries definitely
The only thing America is better on than other countries is school shootings, racism, greed, and children killing themself or others with their parents guns…
America is the country you look too when you want to see how you should NOT do sometihng.
kindly f♥♥k off, you don’t know any s♥♥t in america. most shootings happenned because of gun free zones. and FBI already knew the shooters yet they let it happen. facts is that most shootings happen under areas where they have most strictest gun laws.
It is Europe that should be isolated. Two world wars, nazi and communist ideology that destroyed the world and still plagues it to this day.
Degenerate germans ruined Europe once again aswell with their disgusting race crawling through Europe yelling while holding Dildos in their hands and screaming at anything that triggers them. Truly digusting people.
you clearly never set foot in any european country and especially not germany. you only repeat some made up bs that you read on some shady chan board, that is filled with equally disturbed people like yourself. go travel through europe and live there for a year or two if you can. then you will realize how crappy america really is. my parents moved from america to germany when i was a teen. i wasnt thrilled at first, but now that im older, if i had to choose, i would pick germany over america any day. america the greatest country in the world lmao. yes, great at being morbidly obese and having a below average iq.
The english nice? You mean the country that needs to have their government step in to stop shops from selling acid so people won’t keep getting attacked on a daily basis or how their far right has been beating and even killed a few of their polish citizens just because they are so pissed off. Posts like yours are so stupid.
Ive been to London, and despite getting blindsided by a gypsy women and confused out of 80 quid, the people there were more friendly than any place Ive been in the US. I prefer a place I got robbed better than my own hateful entitled country lol
I stopped taking the Eurovision seriously years ago as its so political with the voting. The best song usually doesn’t win, rather the countries that vote for their neighbours sweep up the most votes. When the results for each country come in you can usually predict who will get awarded the most points from each country. The UK naturally does poorly because we assisted the United States in Iraq & Afghanistan.
I actually believe eurovision should force countries sing only in their mother language.
sure, and lets make it so they can only use slang from the same regions too. useless puritan
Eurovision’s target audience are basically monkeys
No human being cares about this s♥♥t
am i the only one here who just thinks you should showcase your own country’s style and traditions at the eurovision ? 😛
i mean, yes she’s some annoying weeb, but is it really relevant to israel? is it what they want to show to the world? 😛