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Feels like back in the 90’s people were a bit more chill and didn’t go into a genocidal lunatic rage at the mere mention of the country. Wild to think people used to get down with hong kong action movies.

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    It crashed in 1991, but I think the yellow scare lasted into the mid 90s for some people. I remember my parents always acting like stuff made in Japan was inferior to American made products.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Hell I remember it in the late 90s and even early 2000s with the Pokemon satanic panic.

      Southpark literally made an episode at the time [Racism, dick shaming]

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      where Pokemon was a weird thing Japan was using to brainwash kids. I forget the details, but there is a scene where the Japanese CEO’s of Pokemon or whatever talk about (voiced by a white dude doing a very racist Japanese accent) how “Japan have small penis”