Thought Provoking Question

[JudeB]

1. If an American cartoon was made by a Japanese writer/director, does it count as a cartoon or an anime?
2. If a Japanese anime was made by an American writer/director, does the question above still stand?

 

[Tired]

In Japan, the word "anime" actually just means any animation (so also Disney and Pixar). The strict distinction mostly exists in Western fandom.

 

[Judge]

Interesting. NOW I get the motivation for asking such a question.

Can We Call It Anime If It's Made in America? Prepare for Controversy

 

[velociraptor]

NOW I get the motivation for asking such a question.

Some people tend to confuse cultural appreciation with cultural appropriation. There is nothing wrong with admiring a culture so deeply that you follow its teachings in your own life. I've had the occasional person climb on my back over this and I don't bother arguing with them. Fanatics. I tell them to bite my arse and move on.

 

[Lou Laurinen]

Some people tend to confuse cultural appreciation with cultural appropriation. There is nothing wrong with admiring a culture so deeply that you follow its teachings in your own life. I've had the occasional person climb on my back over this and I don't bother arguing with them. Fanatics. I tell them to bite my arse and move on.

My husband is Finnish (more specifically Finnish/Swedish-American, if anyone wants total clarity here) and a lot of people find my interest in his culture, and the fact that I've sort of adopted his culture into my own life, very weird and some people have even claimed that it's "problematic."
I'm not fetishizing his culture or anything... and when we met, the first thing we connected over was me being interested in Nordic culture... so it clearly didn't offend him...

I think being interested in your spouse's culture 100% goes in the category of appreciation, not appropriation. Same with liking anime or liking another culture's food or something. Or listening to music or watching films in a different language.
There are definitely ways in which you can be disrespectful or offensive to another culture, but I don't think anything I've just listed here goes in that category.

I don't understand what is problematic about appreciating and being interested in another culture, especially if that is a culture that you've married into. People are weird these days.