The Picard ManeuverM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 year agoDen Fujita's (the founder of McDonald's Japan) prediction for the year 2971 is a shitpost in itself.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1408arrow-down16
arrow-up1402arrow-down1imageDen Fujita's (the founder of McDonald's Japan) prediction for the year 2971 is a shitpost in itself.lemmy.worldThe Picard ManeuverM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 year agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-square@saltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink51•1 year agoTheir cultural obsession with white skin has always been weird/cringe to me. It’s like they got these people but the other way around…
minus-square@Cypher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink29•1 year agoIt’s because historically dark skin meant you worked in the fields and were extremely poor. Light skin meant you did not perform any manual labour and was a sign of wealth. The blonde hair part is the weirdest bit to me.
minus-square@PatMustard@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoThat was the stereotype in the west too, it only reversed when having a tan meant you were wealthy enough to have been on a summer holiday somewhere sunny!
minus-square@chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink23•1 year agoThey have those too. Gyaru and manba gyaru, to name a few.
minus-square@poppy@lemm.eelinkfedilink11•1 year agoI googled and apparently the ganguro style has died out which makes me feel old.
minus-squareSam, The ManlinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoWe had Japanese students over in 2008 and they said the Ganguro were already quite old :( we might be very out of sync
minus-square@Starkstruck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink13•1 year agoPeople want what they don’t have I guess
Their cultural obsession with white skin has always been weird/cringe to me.
It’s like they got these people but the other way around…
It’s because historically dark skin meant you worked in the fields and were extremely poor.
Light skin meant you did not perform any manual labour and was a sign of wealth.
The blonde hair part is the weirdest bit to me.
That was the stereotype in the west too, it only reversed when having a tan meant you were wealthy enough to have been on a summer holiday somewhere sunny!
They have those too. Gyaru and manba gyaru, to name a few.
I googled and apparently the ganguro style has died out which makes me feel old.
We had Japanese students over in 2008 and they said the Ganguro were already quite old :( we might be very out of sync
People want what they don’t have I guess
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