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This seems more like pandering to a popular trend than a stereotype. It's like if a Japanese movie producer came to the US and tried to become popular by making a huge action movie along the lines of Michael Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer with the assumption that Americans like fast cars and big explosions. I mean, a lot…

Well, see, the Japanese don't realize how insensitive the song is to them. In fact, they seem to enjoy it! As culturally aware individuals, we must be offended on their behalf! /s

Yeah, your whole comment comes across as racist, to me. Is robotic dancing a Japanese stereotype I wasn't aware of? And calling them a minority — this music video was made in Japan, by a Japanese director and choreographer, for the Japanese market (where the song has been a hit).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it more racist to say she can't use Japanese backup dancers because she's white than it is to hire a Japanese crew to make a music video for the Japanese market — where this song has been the most popular? FYI, Avril Lavigne is more popular in Japan than the West.

If she was try to mimic the shittiest things about Japan, she would have spent the entire clip sitting in a office building getting shout at.

Right, recognizing race isn't racist. Discriminating based on race is.

Nobody knows what racism is these days. At absolute worst, most of what people think is "racist" is actually just stereotyping, which is hardly racism by any measure. If anything, stereotyping is mostly just a joke these days when it comes to friends, culture and media. The only time stereotyping is ever really an…

I have watched a lot of J-Pop and she just wanted to copy those outrageous videos they make... I don't really see how wanting to do that is racist. I don't even find it shallow. It's just someone making a music video themed around ridiculously over the top J-Pop vids. Is Eminem racist for making rap videos just like…

Example #1

Sometimes I have the feeling that you're a racist just for being white. You can do whatever you want, you'll never escape that prejudice.

Thanks, you should really see Blade Runner though.

Clearly a human, so not species neutral. I am a non-binary star lizardkin, and the lack of trigger warnings on this have caused me severe emotional stress.

Actually, your reaction has made me feel quite amused.

Change for the sake of change is, imo, not fun and something nobody asks for. I agree, too many male lead roles, but saying something like "Having a female character will make it more fun" is kinda backwards for a Zelda game, since Link is a silent protagonist and having a female car will strictly be aesthetic, ih my…

Am I the only one that fails to see how this is racially incentive? Just because it happens to be shaped like the U.S. in no way implies that is where people actually live. Could it have been done better, probably.

Like most things - Star Trek had its moments of intelligent, serious science fiction. But lets face it, what was most important about Star Trek was that it was about a future where everything turned out okay despite everything. We made it - past our nuclear weapons, past our fears, past our ignorance, and didn't…

"How did The Next Generation ever manage to hold on to it's serious reputation after such undignified disasters as "Code of Honor....""

I agree. For me, the scene where Bones has to relive his father's passing is a straight-on punch in the gut in particular, and one of DeForest Kelley's shining moments in his entire Star Trek career.