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Originally Posted by dddaiyamondo
It's still a stupid name. And it doesn't change the fact that Japanese people love to prostitute our culture and religion in order to be ~fashionable~. The people who wear rosaries are being sacreligious, and it's offensive, or at least annoying to those who actually know what it's about. Maybe just because I'm from Hawai'i and our culture has been taken, packaged and sold in a similar manner, but I find it ridiculous and mildly upsetting to see people wearing things and not even understanding the meaning.
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I'm gonna have to agree. The Japanese use of butchered English in songs and use of American symbols without understanding them seems awfully common and has no place being compared to those listening to Japanese music and not understanding the lyrics. If you are acting on behalf of something that music is saying, but don't understand the lyrics and therefore assume it means one thing would be equivocal to someone naming a song Jesus just for the heck of it. I don't know what Gackt knows about Jesus, but from what I've seen, he seems TO ME like the kind of person who would name a song Jesus just to be cool or trendy. That's just what I believe, but obviously I could be wrong, but it is my opinion and I'm not asking that anyone agree with it.
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Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker
Yeah, i guess everybody here are all ridiculous for listening to japanese music and not even understanding what the heck most of the artists are saying when when they are singing. Nice observation.  We live in a open world. If no culture wanted to be influenced by others or wanted to influence others, these ppl should live in a shell. A lot of the japanese culture is copied and packaged like you say about Hawaii to the western, look at all the sushi houses and the carttoons trying to be anime-like now? I don't think japanese ppl find that offensive. |
Of course we live in an open world with cultures who clearly emulate others. But if I were to personally find the Japanese using important Western symbols as cultural trends to be offensive, I don't see why someone who was Japanese couldn't be bothered by Americans using their culture for profit as well. It goes both ways. You have no right to say that Japanese people don't find it offensive when Americans or other Western cultures emulate some of their trends in a manner similar to how they may do it to other cultures. Unless you know every single person in Japan, you absolutely cannot generalize like that.
And anyways, this is becoming an argument about religion and its cultural impact which, last time I checked, wasn't even allowed here. I still stick by my original statement about the single. You can disagree that it's a "retarded" title, but you wouldn't try to correct someone calling a single "Toilet Brush", now would you? For me it just seems like a totally random name that is primarily a manner of catching attention, and therefore I don't care for it. If Gackt is truly religious and wants to sing about his love for Jesus, then go right on ahead, but I highly doubt that's what this song is about. If it is, so be it.