Anime Americans in Anime

How do you feel about the way Americans are portrayed in anime mainly as loud self-centered jerks
some exapmles are
Sleggar
Asuka(Ok she is only half american)
Chibodee
Dou
the list goes on

 

Accurate.

 

Don't forget that one guy from Gravitation. Something about a stupid guy who always carries a gun?
Don't act like the way Americans portray the rest of us is any better either.

 

hehe Asuka....mmm tastee Asuka....hehe
uhh Americans ey...I guess the Japaneese still have a few hard feelings towards us then

 

That you for helping prove the point that are americansare loud obbuncouse and self-centered and the reason i didin't put that one guy from gravitation cause I never saw the series.

 

Well it was the americans that bombed Hiroshima. No wonder they hate us.

 

true enough.. It seems all foreign cultures get poked fun of in cartoons. Think of Apu, Pepe le Pew, Dudley Doright, Speedy Gonzalez etc.

And I can think of worse things to be than a loud self-centered jerk

 

I don't it's all that bad, I don't think there serious.
People need to lighten up and not take every thing so serious.

 

I've noticed this also. But its enjoyable, Duo is uber cool, and you have to love Asuka for her attitude and the way she can "get up" every guy in the room.:bleed:.

 

Percisly, it is stereotyping and it's been done before. Here Japanese men get sterotyped as (I'm not lying about this, they did a test on it) a hard working business man with bare feet. O_O Where bare feet comes from i don't know.

And school girls (not just japanese) always get stereotyped as cute girls with pigtails. (an example of this is on Austin Powers)O_O Wtf, Japanese girls don't wear pigtails. O_O A few, but not every damn one of them. O_O

 

"Oh no, the Japanese portay Americans in a bad light! Boo frickedy hoo!"

If I was upset at every time a stereotype was applied to my nationality, body shape, school type, future job area, religion and such, or every time some religion labelled me an infidel, I'd just be one constant burning rage.

I'm not American, but I am Canadian and we get slagged all the time, often by Americans themselves nonetheless.

 

My opinion is that stereotyping Americans in that manner is fairly accurate in general. From my experience, Americans are self-centered and disrespectful. They expect everyone else to conform to the laws and practices of the US and expect everyone to be so respectful to things in the US. Yet, they do none of these things when in other countries, most'd just sit and talk during the national anthem of another nation. And many have the attitude that anyone who comes to America should know English. They call themselves Americans, yet that title should be reserved for referring to the Americas, they should be referred to as "United State-ians" or "United State-ers". And I'm American, so the experience I've had has been pretty daily (and I don't have a very good opinion of my countrymen). I hope that's coherent.

 

Guess what this has been around since the dawn of time who cares.

Society constantly has needed to find reason in destroying others. Before WWI Germans were seen as equals in society, but after America's entry the Germans were seen in a new light as nothing but war hungry beasts who have no purpose but the call of battle. What can be learned from that is the fact humanity will always need to give reason for something. America used proganda to make killing the Germans more of an amicable activity as well as stirring support among the ignorance in the USA. This is one of many examples of society's need to give reason to a cause or purpose. It can all be based from the individual, when using derision upon another, you must also convince your fellow conspirators of the rightousness in your cause, therefore they or their scapegoat must be looked upon in a new light. This is not solely used for war, as it can be used in peaceful ways as well, that is merely one of its ways of being used.

 

Uhh, I don't think anyone needed to be convinced that killing Nazis was a good thing, the propaganda was more just to convince people to join the military and/or conserve resources and/or not gossip.

 

Not everyone is equally informed. Some people are very suspectible to propaganda whilst others are not. That was an example of it being used like that during WWI not WWII, and of course propaganda doesn't just serve one purpose.