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Originally Posted by kireikoori
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More anime fans me more people with a positive view of Japan. Which is always a good thing.
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Oh, totally! I am amazed at how much Japanese culture and traditions are now common knowledge in the West, when a decade or two ago it was a complete mystery.
A couple years ago a teenaged acquaintance of mine asked about the lunch scene in "The Breakfast Club" (which was new when I was in high school...umm...in 1986). In the scene Judd Nelson makes fun of a Molly Ringwald for bringing sushi for lunch. "Raw fish? You're really going to eat that?"
The teenager I knew was confused by that scene because at the time (mid 2000s) all his friends went to eat sushi regularly, and had never heard of someone making fun of someone who ate sushi. Of course, this is on the West Coast, so it may be more normal here than other places, but I think the point still stands.