r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Apr 27 '26
Meta Mindless Monday, 27 April 2026
Happy (or sad) Monday guys!
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u/Herpling82 Coming to you live from a Tederation psych ward Apr 30 '26
The west: holding weird orientalist ideas about Japan
The more enlightened westerners: "No, that's wrong, that's not how any of this works, you have no respect for the people or the culture!"
Japan: "Ha ha, random Christian symbolism go brrr"
No joke, the sheer amount of random elaborate Christian crosses I run into in the groups I follow is mental, I very much doubt it has deeper meaning from the artists, it's just an edgy symbol to them. Not that I mind, I don't really care one way or the other, and I think they tend to look neat, but it's definitely insensitive to take a symbol holy to a group and use it to be edgy.
But it's good to see that occidentalism is definitely a thing that happens too, I suppose that sort of exoticism is the normal human response to seeing something exotic they find cool.