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Is there is a general obsession in every culture with fetishizing things perceived to be foreign or inscrutable, or is it just Western culture?
by boringuser2 3y ago
Is there is a general obsession in every culture with fetishizing things perceived to be foreign or inscrutable, or is it just Western culture?
- eska 3y agoDo you mean to say this article is fetishizing Korean culture?
- ssnistfajen 3y agoYes, this occurs in every industrialized culture that is decently connected to the rest of the world. Anglophone cultures just do it in the most prominent and cringey way possible.
- rippercushions 3y agoThis seems less like fetishizing and more like someone applying the only hammer they have (programming languages) to the wrong nail (human languages).
- zztop44 3y agoKind of? Certainly many countries “fetishize” American culture, to a degree. Same with French and Italian culture (especially as it relates to fashion and food). Some stuff is just popular? Certainly things related to Korean and Japanese cultures are popular throughout Asia, as they are in the West, right now.
- brigandish 3y agoIt's the same in Japan with English. People wear things with English words to make themselves look cool, just as a westerner might with kanji, and the actual meaning of the word is secondary to the point of being entirely inconsequential, which is why you might see some hilarious stuff on your way around town.
- second_brekkie 3y agoIn Korean fashion too pretty much all writing is in English too. It's all grammatically correct-ish but it reads unnaturally to a native English speaker.