There’s a history of portraying Japan as kooky and odd: British media is racist.

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‘So alien! So other!’: how western TV gets Japanese culture wrong https://t.co/J936XVL4zr

— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) 2019年10月29日

TV’s other orientalist missteps are less daft, but more common. The premise of Queer Eye – five sophisticates makeover a sad-sack – puts Karamo Brown in danger of doing an accidental “Lawrence of Arabia” when he arrives in Tokyo. That is, updating the colonial yarn of the westerner who is eventually accepted by an alien community and then asserts his inherent superiority by embodying the culture better than the locals

優越って言っているんだから、民族差別そのものであって、イギリスの報道は人種差別的ってことでしょ。なんで、はっきり書かないんだろうねーーーこうした差別の空気を吸い込んだ英米かぶれが出羽守になりやすい所以でもある。


Kazuo Ishiguro

Books, articles and television programmes focus on whatever is most extreme and bizarre in Japanese life; the Japanese people may be viewed as amusing or alarming, expert or devious, but they must above all be seen to be non-human.

カズオイシグロの言っているとおりじゃん。