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But the thing is, a white person living in Japan would experience almost the same things she's experiencing. Japanese people perform the same actions--wearing T-shirts with horrendous English on them just because English is "cool," feeling extreme curiosity about other cultures without properly knowing the bad parts of their own history (Japanese textbooks lack many facts about the atrocities committed by Japan during WWII), enjoying American movies because Angelina Jolie is hot, etc.

I think this is true, in one sense, but on the other, there's also the context that a lot of the time, it feels like American culture is taking over the world, to put it extremely dramatically and with great hyperbole.

I'm not sure if I personally believe this, but I remember feeling a lot of resentment back when I was in Taiwan about the fact that a lot of the big blockblusters and the popular movies were American imports.

I dunno... I'm not really sure what point I'm trying to make, but I guess part of it is that just as there's a different historical context, there's also a different pop culture context, because Angelina Jolie is much more a global star than Michelle Yeoh and is marketed as such. Which is not to say that I think it's any more right or ok if someone else does it, but just that... it's complicated. *sigh*