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Well, I won't rule out Berlin being weird ... :) But it also raises the question of whether Japanmania was as big in Germany in the 80s as in the US to begin w
by sho_hn 5y ago
Well, I won't rule out Berlin being weird ... :)
But it also raises the question of whether Japanmania was as big in Germany in the 80s as in the US to begin with (the pop song "Big in Japan" notwithstanding!), or if this was a BBS/Usenet discussion 30 years ago and I had written the same post about Japan instead, a hypothetical 80s you would have felt similarly.
- wink 5y agoMy point is more if I, a reasonably informed person about pop culture, have not noticed because none of my friends (some of whom have been k-pop fans for years) have never mentioned it or posted about it, then I have to assume I am either living under a rock, all my friends are deliberately hiding it, are also part of a bubble of non-noticers, or it's simply not a *mania.