The Stone Lion Racism Test

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@RareEarthSeries 4 года назад

Patrons are why I don't try to trick you into 23andMe and questionable VPNs. I cannot thank them enough. www.patreon.com/rareearth

@ietsbram 4 года назад

man the concept of cultural approprition is so weird, such bullshit, cant we all agree that children dont inherent the faults of their fathers and let everyone share in everyone culture?

@iuriepripa3171 4 года назад

@@ietsbram I agree, but I don't think that's what people mean when they talk about "cultural appropriation".

@ajnazatahm 4 года назад

Bram iets There's an enormous difference between cultural exchange and appropriation

@revimfadli4666 4 года назад

@@ajnazatahm and slapping the "appropriation" label on any exchange is a great way to hinder exchange

@revimfadli4666 4 года назад

@@ietsbram tribal-minded people would like to disagree

@isaiah1975 4 года назад

When I saw the title I thought you were gonna have to stand in front of a sculpture and it tells you if your racist or not.

@Tsukuyomi28 3 года назад

Like the sorting hat

@zeydalynn8634 3 года назад

I thought they were going to ask people questions about how the stone lion looks and find some clever way to read their bias from their responses

@CrazyMonkey-wm5hz 3 года назад

Great minds think alike

@wisteria6656 3 года назад

I thought that too

@conker690 3 года назад

Krynies same. I can’t tell if it’s a clickbait title or i’m just a dumbass.

@nlabonte 4 года назад

I still have a question: If that Taiwanese woman wanted to sell hand-crafted versions of these good luck lions made out of the hardened protective coverings of crustaceans from a beach-side stall to tourists... Is it racist if she sells sea-shell shiisas by the sea shore?

@MaresBarres 4 года назад

nlabonte There are comments that deserve Pulitzers. This is one of them. 🏆

@nedisahonkey 4 года назад

@@MaresBarres It's definitely an incredible high quality pun.

@uriahl2331 4 года назад

That's a Norm MacDonald level setup.

@ourochroma 4 года назад

Shouldn’t she see her sea-she’ll shiisas sell ashamedly better than shy shoes

@BayuAkbarK 4 года назад

As long as peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran. That's OK.

@SoraCyn 4 года назад

I know them as 石狮 (“shíshī”, lit. “stone lion”). My great-uncle used to carve them as a profession in his youth (that, and tombstones...). But what I _really_ remember about them is that they all have a stone ball in their mouths, and as a kid my one burning passion in life was to get the ball out... but of the 2% of the times I was actually able to, it never worked the other way around (i.e. putting it back in), which caused the first impression my 4-year old brain had of “OH *Shit* this is BAD”

@warren5037 4 года назад

How did you manage that? The few i saw that had balls in them, I never managed to get the ball out

@SoraCyn 4 года назад

Warren Lam I think (it’s been two decades 😅) the ones I had most luck with were the medium-small sized lions - the bigger ones had a really small mouth opening compared to the ball size, and with the smallest ones you can’t fit your finger through. But smaller meant that the balls couldn’t be carved perfectly round (some had really obvious edges) so you can get lucky with the right angle. older lions are also better to finagle because weather wears down the stone around the mouth opening. But really, I think it’s sheer probability... I would see at least a few a day, so even with a 1% chance, I would still get lucky a few times. Still though, don’t do it... apparently taking a ball from a stone lion is like taking the luck away from the place it guards.

@johnalexander5169 4 года назад

More like, "Oh, shishi... this is bad."

@Yoshiclue321AJ 4 года назад

I had always wanted to know how they got it in the mouth lol

@futureshock382 4 года назад

@@Yoshiclue321AJ The gap between its teeth is carved out and the stone in the mouth is carved into a smooth ball to make it appear as though the ball was separate and added after the lion statue was finished

@iammaxhailme 4 года назад

Who can build one? A skilled sculptor. That's it.

@revimfadli4666 4 года назад

Does someone with a 3D printer and open-source model count?

@AinsleyHarriott1 4 года назад

Correct! Unlike what this narrator is implying, it doesn’t matter what your skin colour, ethnic background or cultural heritage is. Of course anyone can do anything. We are all equal. No one is more equal than another. We are all allowed to.

@archbishopmactasty76 4 года назад

@@AinsleyHarriott1 We most certainly are not all equal. That's just the idea we strive for.

@AinsleyHarriott1 4 года назад

Archbishop Mactasty we are. We are the same

@archbishopmactasty76 4 года назад

@@AinsleyHarriott1 no we are not there are so many difference between humans that making the argument that we are in any way equal is absurd. Whether it be genetic traits, cultural traits, or socio-economic factors, the sad truth is humans as a whole will never achieve equality or even equity for that matter

@Zahaqiel 4 года назад

There's an argument that lion statues (sometimes referred to as lion-dog statues) are actually statues of chow chows, as chow chows had been used as temple guard dogs in China/Tibet and are also sometimes referred to as lion-dogs.

@---iv5gj 4 года назад

you mean mastiffs, not chow chows they are rather different.

@Zahaqiel 4 года назад

@@---iv5gj No I mean chow chows. Chow chows were used to guard temples in China, Tibet and Mongolia, and given the spread of Chinese culture as a major regional influence it's not surprising that statues of them guarding temples became common.

@arthurias7693 4 года назад

@@Zahaqiel they're called Chow Chows because they're chowed on in China

@Zahaqiel 4 года назад

@@arthurias7693 Super racist, also "chow-chow" is a pickled relish found in North America so it's an ironic attempt at racism too. In China they're called "songshi-quan" which means "puffy lion dog".

@RareEarthSeries 4 года назад

That's a famous misunderstanding of what they were meant to represent, but as far as I know is proven untrue by the historic texts.

@classycompositions932 4 года назад

0:10 'Sculpt me like one of your french lions.'

@Kiido11 4 года назад

This should be top comment.

@foresthillwolf7998 4 года назад

1:00

@pauldeddens5349 4 года назад

But who is allowed to sculpt them? French artists because its a part of their culture? French women because they are depicted in the art? Oniwakins because the lion is their culture? Japanese because their lions have also become part of the culture through conquering the nation? *_Your making it harder on us man_*

@NarffetWerlz 4 года назад

Who can make a Shiisa and out of what material or heritage? Answer: Maybe

@RareEarthSeries 4 года назад

you should write notes for cliff

@Sabrowsky 4 года назад

Lets be honest, its Evan's schtick, we should have seen it coming

@iandalziel7405 4 года назад

@@RareEarthSeries - now you're 'bluffing'...

@philipmalaby8172 4 года назад

Answer: Anyone who wants to

@kornx10 4 года назад

Ah an envoy of Planet Neutral. Holding true to your beliefs

@satobatchelor1701 4 года назад

Uhh, my family has shisa dogs all over the place and we're mixed Okinawan in the U.S. There's a huge difference between shisa dogs and a Native American war bonnet, one is a universal (at least on the islands) protective symbol and the other is a signal of respect and honor reserved for very few.

@colleennewholy9026 4 года назад

I personally wanted a Shisa because my great grandfather could never figure them out (he had been sent from the Reservation, to the Pacific theatre, and settled in Okinawa for a time, during WWII), and apparently it fascinated my mom And boom here I am. I'm sure he would have loved to study Okinawan culture, but sadly he died in the mid eighties

@k-aw-teksleepysageuni8181 4 года назад

Very good point. I like to think of it this way....You can wear a military outfit, and dress up in tac gear for halloween. Alternatively, you can dress up as a native with leather skins and an obsidian axe. If either of those seem cool to you, there's nothing necessarily wrong with it until you add/forget the details....... But don't put on medals of honor, and other wartime badges then run around acting like your George S Patton, barking orders, telling war stories, and smoking cigars. Also, don't put on a war chiefs hat, then start doing an "Indian dance", hollering and dancing around a fire........ It's a form of disrespect, and/or stolen valor.

@auralynn3862 3 года назад

@@k-aw-teksleepysageuni8181 The words I've been looking for.

@christinac4197 3 года назад

@@k-aw-teksleepysageuni8181 dressing up as a soldier and dressing up as a native american are two different things though. one is dressing up as a profession and the other is dressing up as an ethnicity.

@k-aw-teksleepysageuni8181 3 года назад

@@christinac4197 This is true, but then what is wrong with emulating another ethnicity? As I said, as long as it's done through appreciation and respect for said culture, it's pretty harmless... but if we wanna go down your rabbit hole. What if a Native American dresses in a suit, or wears lederhosen? Are they then "being white"? Also, what if a white person dresses up as a gaul, or proto-european, and people mistake it as native American? Lastly, what if it's someone who has native blood does it, but everyone has your mind set and demonizes them for it.... Best to let people emulate what they enjoy, so long as no harm is being done. That's how bits of culture survives and evolves...

@Jessie_Helms 4 года назад

This is exactly why I hate the idea of “cultural appropriation.” It’s natural for cultures to meld- just don’t be a jerk about it [edit: As pointed out in some replies, I don’t like cultural domination- something like Hawaii being fetishized by the mainland isn’t ok, because the culture was warped brutally in the process. But liking anime, having a dream catcher, or otherwise incorporating an aspect of a culture into your own is literally how culture works.]

@MeldinX2 4 года назад

Espacially if you live in a multi-cultural country. I mean how are diffrent cultures going to live side by side if people don't have the freedom to participate and understand each other?

@plebisMaximus 4 года назад

Isn't the entire point supposed to be breaking down the barriers between races? So why are we barring certain people from doing, wearing, owning or making something just because it was originally created by someone who didn't look like them? It's ridiculous.

@AJ-rm2vh 4 года назад

The problem though is that you can’t disrespect a culture and take from it at the same time and that’s what caused the whole cultural appropriation thing, eg as a white person if you think Asians shouldn’t be in your country and that their food is disgusting but then wear Kimonos as a costume that just feels well wrong and makes people - reasonably - upset (not sure if I can bring my point across) Or even worse, taking something that came from another culture and claiming you invented it (plagiarism is always bad) Respectful cultural exchange has never been the problem

@mikelord93 4 года назад

@@AJ-rm2vh "Respectful cultural exchange has never been the problem" so all the articles about children not being allowed to wear certain things are bs, right? It's hard to argue they are bigoted isn't it?

@SilverDemon456 4 года назад

The best example of actual cultural appropriation is Hawaii. There was never such a thing as hula girls until business men started vacationing there. Their native culture was destroyed and reformed to suit our desires. This was not simply a "melding" of cultures.

@blizztedo7577 4 года назад

Thank you for posting this. I'm someone of mixed descent myself, and when I was younger I often wondered about who was entitled to what about culture. The realpolitik is that there's only one kind of culture for any human being: practiced culture. People can debate about who can do what with which culture, but the truth is that if the next generation doesn't practice your culture you will vanish. Discussions about "reverence" and "homage" are all well and good, but unpracticed culture is extinct culture. And, hey, if your iteration of that culture sucks, it'll succumb to cultural "survival of the fittest".

@ajnazatahm 4 года назад

Blizz Tedo Interesting point. Thank you for sharing.

@rhijulbec1 4 года назад

Better said than my comment, 😂 Well said. Jenn in Canada 🇨🇦

@ifanismail6564 4 года назад

Thank you for this interesting, simple, but spot on point. Too many debate about cultural appropriation started to overwhelm and headache-inducing. Identity politic is rooted from a point of view demanding justice, but then it obsessed about purity to the point scaring people from creating... well, many things.

@liamnacinovich8232 4 года назад

Yeah same I’m a Irish Croatian, I am 75% irish but I’ll admit most people know me as the Croat now. I guess I’ve latched on to that so I can stand out a bit because I come from a heavily irish community and it feels good to say I’m different then the norm. I don’t know, I’ve never done a 23 and me so i can’t say for certain but I know inside I’m more than half irish but I still love to identify as Croatian or Yugoslavian. Am I overplaying my slavicness or am I justified to be so loud about only around a quarter of my heritage

@kitykity434 4 года назад

Except sometimes things should be left alone most people in the US think yoga was started by white moms with nothing better to do and don't know about its Indian roots. Theirs even places that market themselves as yoga without all that mumbo jumbo which means they just gutted everything about it's roots to make it into an exercise which is not what it was for.

@MickeyD2012 4 года назад

"One fine day with a woof and a purr, a baby was born and it caused a little stir, No blue monkey, no three-eyed frog, just a feline canine, little CatDog."

@SlavTiger 4 года назад

Catdog! Catdog! All alone in the world is a little cat dog

@heartpng 4 года назад

As someone from Hawaii, but not ethnically Hawaiian, I can say there's a lot of cultural sharing and education. Participating in another culture is fine, great even! It helps keep the practices alive! What's important is making sure your reference is coming straight from the source as much as possible, not skewed from the grapevine. I really like Lindsay Ellis' video on cultural appropriation, because she points out that it's a morally neutral term. When people adopt/represent dominant cultures, there's not a lot of push back from people calling appropriation. What people are trying to call out is the cultural domination, and like another commentor points out, warping of that culture.

@checkmate1826 3 года назад

Because they sold their entire culture for a profit

@kuolamakahanakaike8879 2 года назад

@@checkmate1826 wrong. The colonizers sold our culture for profit. Our language and culture was banned from us since January 17, 1893. We don’t even know our own culture.

@travcollier Год назад

A lot of Okinawans in Hawaii. When Japan was colonizing Okinawa, they "encouraged" native Okinawans to take work on sugar plantations in Hawaii and Brazil. Those communities, especially a couple in Brazil, preserved different parts and arguably more of the Okinawan language and culture than survived in Okinawa itself. Anyways... No one owns a culture. It is an ever changing collection of memes. But a culture is definitely a thing to appreciate and understand the history of.

@dr.zoidberg8666 4 года назад

Maybe it's not an appropriate comparison, but I grew up & lived for many years in a town right next to a Native reservation & my family before me grew up on the rez -- even though they were white, they were always just part of the community. It has been my experience that most often, well meaning white folks (could be generalized to whatever the powerful group is) make things weird when they didn't need to be -- shit like savior complexes or people who get all high on themselves making contact with 'the natives'. If they'd just relax, have some frybread, & hang out, a lot of that tension would go away. Maybe the situation on Okinawa is similar? Not to say there aren't systemic problems -- there are always systemic problems. But maybe people just being people, sharing cultures, ideas, & just getting to know each other is the best solution for the average every-day person.

@Riverwytche 4 года назад

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@ChildOfVendetta 4 года назад

I just saw this after writing a long comment about it. No offense to Evan but what he is saying makes no sense. If you are a westerner and own a shisa it's a small cultural victory for them. In my book it would me a micro case of "Rome conquered Greece, but Greece conquered Rome.".

@lukeh2556 4 года назад

So taking time to talk and get to know people is the best way forward- who'd a thunk it? But seriously though that is a good message. Can relate of all the time I've spent around natives. As long as you respect that their culture still means something to many of them, and that they have the right to be angry about how they've been treated in the past and present then you're very unlikely to receive any hostility for being White.

@MeldinX2 4 года назад

I agree i think people get way too serious about things. Nothing wrong with people being curious about other peoples way of life or culture. Why not hang out and get to know the people and their culture? I think that will increase understanding among humans.

@nedisahonkey 4 года назад

Ultimately this is all coming from a fundamental place of seeing different cultures or "races" as "other". You couldn't be more right about just hanging out with people. That's why it's not useful to shout at racists. At best you have to hope you can coax them into engaging with the group they dislike in small ways until the light goes on that "oh shit these people have essentially the same thoughts, fears, worries and experiences as me when it comes to most things". I just hope we're too soon removed from our tribal roots atm and given time our society will make a slow but incremental increase towards the objective understanding that humans seemingly diverse phenotype is underwritten by a surprisingly uniform genotype.

@Balsiefen 4 года назад

I feel that adopting the culture of the place you live can rarely be a bad thing. In another few hundred years it won't much matter which Okinawans have Japanese ancestry, but whether Okinawa remains culturally distinct or becomes homogenised likely will.

@BonaparteBardithion 4 года назад

This. This is the heart of the issue.

@happyllama1160 3 года назад

I feel like it isn’t just not bad, but absolutely necessary to live a fulfilling life and to get along with others in your community

@Diditallforthexp 4 года назад

2:48 I legit though that Godzilla was in this image

@pingujoe 4 года назад

For trivia, there's a kaiju based on that statues who fights along with Godzilla in a 1974 movie wikizilla.org/wiki/King_Caesar

@bumblingbureaucrat6110 4 года назад

I saw King Kong

@brandonvistan7444 4 года назад

King Caesar.

@williamhenry8914 4 года назад

I'm not woke enough for this video. Imitation is how culture spreads naturally, it's how stuff like this got created in the first place. Almost nothing is truly original. I can't see how you could ever stop people from imitating and adapting other cultures, nor why you'd want to. Copying does no harm to the culture that is copied. If the copy becomes more celebrated than the original (eg: US vs Italian pizza), then so be it - the original culture is only threatened if its holders decide they are no longer care enough to perpetuate it. If they decide to do that, that's their choice. I think we should just let information and ideas flow naturally and trust people to hold onto their own cultures - or not - whatever they decide.

@freakymoejoe2 4 года назад

I agree

@shibadogthing9997 4 года назад

@Jordan Spencer Liberals?

@Samuelcpittman 4 года назад

I'm a pizza and I'm offended by your references to my pieple.

@spacecorpse3212 4 года назад

@@Samuelcpittman oh wait this is a joke

@SpeedyMC14 4 года назад

that was kind of the message, in the vid he said trying to micromanage who gets to use what culture is impossible, and its better for it to get watered down by foreigners then forgotten or removed entirely

@ellamills5716 4 года назад

The way you talked about the decline of indigenous culture in Okinawa reminds me a little of my own country’s history. Thankfully we’ve been able to reclaim a lot of our heritage since we became an independent state a few decades ago and the spirit of our culture has remained strong despite it all. Much love to Okinawa from Ireland 💚

@damonroberts7372 4 года назад

IMO "cultural appropriation" is a silly term; all contemporary cultures, including the "indigenous" ones (whatever that really means) are a synthesis of their antecedents, cultural exchange, and invention or innovation. This has been the case for nearly 200,000 years. If people had not "appropriated" freely from other cultures, we wouldn't have any language, history, art or science to speak of. The problem isn't _appropriation._ The problem is _mockery._ The problem is people using elements of other peoples' cultures for the purpose of cruel and degrading satire.

@yunarikku2723 4 года назад

Cultural appropriation is not a silly term. It is simply a descriptor of a social and cultural phenomenon.

@user-xz9dp7qo2b 4 года назад

Sometimes, however, there are elements of protecting local producers and stopping"holy"/"sacred" objects from bastardisation through mass commercialisation. In the Philippines, one ethnolinguistic group, the Tboli, make a beautiful cloth called "T'nalak". Many companies try to replicate it. But for the Tboli, it's very precious and must go through a specific process (and must be hand woven), in a sense, it's sacrilegious. Another thing is that the t'nalak which is produced by the group is then sold to tourists or anyone in many "modern" forms (ie. wallets, computer bags, etc, but NO objects linked to the feet yet the process stays holy so not too sure about all that but anyway) so the t'nalak serves as a means of livelihood for many women (as it's produced only by women). By having outsiders appropriate it and mass produce low quality so-called t'nalak, they not only take money away from the traditional weavers, they also lower the quality and insult the culture While I do think in general cultural appropriation isn't too bad unlike what some SJWs say, cases may vary and we do have to be careful about that

@DUCKDUDE4100 4 года назад

Or when people who've consistently mocked or suppressed a culture subsequently adopt parts of it. I'd argue that's just as galling and shitty.

@og_hapsburg7189 4 года назад

Kevin Fillwell or you could find literally any other personality trait besides “being an asshole” because you’re so unoriginal and boring you think you’re still being edgy and transgressive

@meepmorp5076 4 года назад

Except that us white people used those indigenous peoples culture to enslave and diminish them. Also FYI indigenous means "originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native." We literally used their culture and practices to rationalize their enslavement and "why they were inferior to us" and "couldn't be trusted." A great example of this is Christopher Columbus! I encourage you to read Black Elk speaks, or another piece about history written by someone from that culture, and hear from them what it felt like to be told they couldn't practice their culture. History books will remind you we told them they couldn't, and enforced that on them with mass murder, and how it feels now to have us white people use pieces from those practices that we used as an excuse to enslave them.

@vandythevandy 4 года назад

Wow I really had no idea that Okinawa had a native language :( I feel guilty for not knowing just how much the people of Okinawa have suffered....It is true that history is written by those in power but the extent of that fact still shocks me whenever I learn the truth they try to hide :/

@nedisahonkey 4 года назад

Never feel guilty for learning something "late", feel grateful you learned it at all and more importantly still have the curiosity to learn it. So many people cease active attempts at learning at some in their life and it seems like an utter waste imo.

@colleennewholy9026 4 года назад

I encountered another RU-vid comment, in entirely different video stating the same shock. Only they were surprised that there were people in China who weren't "Chinese" (a different ethnicity in other words) and spoke a language "not Chinese"... I want these sorts of histories told, because no one should be shocked that there's remnants left over from any sort of colonialism.

@ANTSEMUT1 3 года назад

@Millenial Pigeon also the Okinawans have a higher percentage of Jomon genetic markers than the mainland Japanese people.

@kuolamakahanakaike8879 2 года назад

Look into the history of Hawaii. Basically same thing

@steve1978ger 4 года назад

Culture always changes, it's malleable to the material changes around it. You're not going to preserve it by telling other people they can't use its symbols. Identity politics to me often sounds like a "if we can't have this for us alone, we'd rather have it die in obscurity".

@Doomroar 4 года назад

But then it is also important how it is used, it could end like the Indian swastika pretty much now ruined because people associate it with something entirely different.

@yux.tn.3641 4 года назад

“if we can’t have this for us alone, we’d rather have it die in obscurity” = tell that to asians and japan with a decreasing population...

@steve1978ger 4 года назад

@@NecrosAcolyte - Multiculturalism is real and has always been, whether you like it or not. Pure cultures are a fantasy entertained by simpletons who believe that xenophobe sentiments can stop the world from changing.

@rantingrodent416 4 года назад

If there are still people around who can't practice their culture in earnest without persecution, and someone among the society doing the persecuting is wearing their treasured cultural symbols as a kitschy costume, there's something profoundly disrespectful going on. It's a shitty thing to do. I don't think you should be banned from doing it or anything, but people are entirely justified in judging you for being either unaware or unconcerned about those implications

@steve1978ger 4 года назад

@@rantingrodent416 - I agree you should think about what you're doing and not be needlessly disrespectful. But I don't believe in making up problems when there are none, and some people do just that so they can aggrandize themselves as defenders of a culture that hasn't asked them to do anything. I'm not talking about Rare Earth but I think we all know the type of person I'm talking about.

@PeterStanton 4 года назад

You use the word “allowed,” but the question should really be what actions would be respectful, not what actions should or should not be “allowed.” And really, the only way to determine whether it’s respectful or not is just to ask a lot of Okinawans (of any and all backgrounds) what they feel would be respectful or disrespectful.

@checkmate1826 3 года назад

No no. Allowed is correct. Socially allowed that is.

@30803080308030803081 4 года назад

It seems like you’re making a big deal out of something that isn’t. These lions are a little piece of Okinawan culture that has been preserved and enjoyed by Okinawans and non-Okinawans. It doesn’t seem wrong at all for non-Okinawans to participate in this. They are paying a tribute to Okinawan culture.

@yamimayonnaise5378 3 года назад

Although it specifically centers on Okinawa, the concept of the video is very important and relevant to other issues going on today, outside of okinawa too; cultural appropriation

@checkmate1826 3 года назад

@@yamimayonnaise5378 I think it's slightly racist when people use national culture as an example of cultural appropriation but ignore every other culture because they are "less important" or "not right." Fuck you, you double standard prick.

@spyhippo2736 2 года назад

@@yamimayonnaise5378 Please enlighten us with an example of “cultural appropriation”.

@yamimayonnaise5378 2 года назад

@@spyhippo2736 Both you and the other commenter completely misunderstood my statement. I mean that the concept of cultural appropriation is applicable to other parts of the world and can be attacked and devalued with the same arguments being displayed in support for foreigners or others outside of a culture to participate in , such as the lion's mentioned.

@Lost-In-Blank 4 года назад

If you're an imperialist, you'll expect the locals to adopt your culture and refuse to adopt theirs.

@gnomee9447 4 года назад

I think the whole idea of cultural appropriation is that they don't always do.

@user-yv2cz8oj1k 4 года назад

And that's always varied from country to country depending what that society is and their perception of it. Religion though, well that's often been the biggest change.

@DaddyOho 4 года назад

True, but sometimes the conquerers become naturalised. In my corner of the world, the Anglo-Normans are a good example.

@crazydragy4233 4 года назад

It often has to do with control or purging. Actually killing of native people isnt always the best choice tho vrr popular, but destroying their identity or assimilating them hard enough to erase said identity can work without removing cheap workforce

@wanderingmadman558 4 года назад

The roman culture adopted lots from the cultures that they absorbed... Even their religions were incorporated, hence roman polytheism evolving and becoming Christian monotheism. These type of things aren't necessarily purposely done by the imperials(if fact I'd guess that the imperial state would prefer for it not to happen). It mostly depends on what is considered cool at the time, and much like modern time can be pretty random as to what will actually become the latest fad.

@Lastprogramer 4 года назад

the difference is the claim of ownership, the claim of artistic creativity. a stolen idea is a stolen idea, but craftsmanship cannot be stolen. craftsmanship itself is pure, nomatter who does the crafting, as long as the originating idea is respected in earnest. edit: no I don't mean owning one is wrong, claiming ownership to the idea is wrong, and I don't think anybody is really doing that.

@Jesse__H 4 года назад

I like the sentiment. It sounds right. But I imagine it doesn't do much to convince someone who feels, sincerely, that a piece of their personal history has been co-opted by strangers who then necessarily alter (and often, probably, _reduce_ ) its significance. Don't get me wrong here, I'm on your side. But I don't think that _particular_ argument is the one that'll win hearts and minds. I'm sure we can do better. And by we I mean someone more clever than me at least, lol.

@Lastprogramer 4 года назад

@@Jesse__H you're probably right, but I think the responsibility falls on the craftsman to understand the context of the form and pay proper respects to a culture. what I as somebody from New York may find offensive to my culture is different than what an Okinawan may find offensive to theirs, and if the form is originally Okinawan it makes sense to treat it with (at least an honest attempt at emulating:) Okinawan respect. but if it makes Okinawans feel disrespected, intent is meaningless, the piece would sort of be a failure right? you are correct, people will feel disrespected and that is to be avoided, obviously, but I only think the act of creation in a vacuum is pure, how one treats that creation, profits off it, takes credit from it for instance, are not pure. the skills it takes to make one cannot be logically considered unethical in my opinion, but a whole lot of other stuff surrounding that act of creation can be easily judged. a foreigner in Okinawa making them to sell to tourists for instance would be clearly wrong, but if I made one and gave it as a gift I don't think anybody would have an argument that that's unethical unless the form was edited in a disrespectful fashion.

@Lukeplaysshuff 4 года назад

Copying isn't theft, if I stole what's yours there's one less left. One for me, and one for you, that's what copying do.

@adto5942 4 года назад

In China, lions always go in pair: the lioness playing with her cub, and the lion with the world in one of his paws.

@user-yv2cz8oj1k 4 года назад

And if you go to some parts of Europe you will see a lion with a globe under its paw, from what I've been told it is meant to be the entirety of creation not just the world that it has its paw on. So I wonder in which directions these ideas occurred. Imports of imports of ideas, I'm guessing you need to look for where had big cats, but the creation thing, well I know it appears in some medieval paintings, and there were traders and traveling artisans between countries, so the things just became something that was part of the culture.

@adto5942 4 года назад

Actually, lions have been introduced to chinese people by persian emissaries around 208 BC. The chinese word for lion (獅, shī) is even derived from the persian word for lion (šer). In Europe, lions were present on the continent during the antiquity. So I think the same thing happened both in China and in Europe: lions have been associated to the idea of power. In biology, we would speak of parallel evolution.

@daianmoi8528 4 года назад

Male and female symbolism has always intrigued me. Husbands are also represented by dragons while wives are represented by the phoenix. I think I like them as mythical beasts better than one getting to have the world in it’s hand while the other is stuck taking care of the baby.

@jasonosmond6896 4 года назад

@MsSunhappy At one time in the not-too-distant past (like less than 3000 years ago) lions were common in both Mediterranean Europe (attested to by contemporaneous Greek authors) and North Africa, and in Asia as far as India. They still exist natively in small numbers in India. Lions were also common as part of the international wild animal trade, which is also how the Chinese Emperor Yongle ended up with giraffes as part of his menagerie in 1419.

@zoruasnivy 3 года назад

@@daianmoi8528 There'd be no one to hold the world in their hand if they never were born in the first place. I like the Phoenix and Dragon idea, but I think the symbol of a mother and child can be sweet, too.

@Jesse__H 4 года назад

I haven't heard someone on youtube pronounce en masse correctly in a hot minute. I award you 1 Pedant Point and a warm _thank you._ 😁

@RareEarthSeries 4 года назад

This is only building you up for the ultimate let down when you get to the episode where I say apocryphal

@Dimetropteryx 4 года назад

Ask the culture for its opinion, evaluate its motivations for allowing or disallowing the use of an aspect of its culture and act according to your own conscience.

@ajnazatahm 4 года назад

Dimetropteryx Ultimately, not much else you can do

@Dimetropteryx 4 года назад

@@ajnazatahm It is an alternative to not showing any regard and to simple pandering.

@Liquessen 4 года назад

Not critique, but how does one go about asking a culture?

@Dimetropteryx 4 года назад

@@Liquessen Talk to more than one member from it. The more people you consult, the more accurate the result.

@Liquessen 4 года назад

@@Dimetropteryx Ohh, oki! :)

@AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад

In the jungle the mighty jungle, the Shisa sleeps tonight

@Erythromycin-16 4 года назад

You’re just......omnipotent aren’t you

@lordbotato7175 4 года назад

@@Erythromycin-16 He's omnipresent

@Erythromycin-16 4 года назад

Davi no no, I mean omnipotent

@Erythromycin-16 4 года назад

Davi unlimited power

@lordbotato7175 4 года назад

@@Erythromycin-16 hahaha you're right!

@hannahwalton5787 4 года назад

I feel sad after reading some of these comments... Perhaps it’s because I see some picked up the line ‘but you can’t turn back history, it always moves forward’. These comments go ‘Yeah, time moves forward. Things change. People can’t be offended by how their culture gets altered because change is a fact of life.’ I think there’s a lack of sensitivity to the pain of that loss the offended feel. And it is a loss, similar to how someone may feel coming back to their hometown and their old hangout spot on the corner got torn down, and that neighbor they always saw isn’t living there anymore. The person who moved into that house probably feels nothing, and why would they when they moved into a new house? I don’t think that makes the other’s pain any less real. Sure, tell this person to ‘Get over it. Chill out. Move on. Just get along with the new people’ but must we? I don’t think this video is wrong, life moves on. But I find it odd some feel they ought to rush people through a change, a loss, a feeling of grief, a feeling of anger that someone else experiencing just because its unpleasant witnessing someone express it.

@samuelhong4272 4 года назад

I think the greater point is that the culture still lives on. The ownership of it still belongs to the Okinawans although its meaning has been perverted. The dog still lives, just with various owners. I don't think there is any shame in feeling such sentiment; just that it's a rather cynical perspective. Every culture changes perversely. The world of today is certainly not the world a decade ago.

@crazydragy4233 4 года назад

I think the point that should be made along with the statement is while culture does change and cant be turned back, it should be approached by respect and compassion to the people involved. But alas thats very taxing to do everyday for everyone

@GuitarTherapy144 4 года назад

The classiest channel on youtube. Im thankful to your work. Your narration is good, your movie scenery is well thought, the layout of your thoughts is so diplomatic and artistic. Thank you for making these videos. Greetings from Tirana.

@satibel 4 года назад

a stone worker?

@RyanBile 4 года назад

Ultra relevant. Great closer too! I can never express how much you are appreciated guys!

@honeyham6788 4 года назад

i love the terminology you used in this video, from describing the japanese as colonial and the america as an empire. It's a refreshing way to hear someone describe the world

@leehaseley2164 4 года назад

Surely the fact that these symbols are being kept alive outweighs the fact that they are being used by cultural outsiders? Bynote: Singha, as you mentioned is pronounced as "Sing".

@sun4502 4 года назад

The original from Sanskrit is pronounced as Simhaḥ. In hindi it is called Sinh.

@adamschoedel8829 4 года назад

Thank you for your thoughtful videos. As an American who lives in Japan, I'm just a busy person working and raising a family. I'll never learn or know all there is to know about culture and history. But I appreciate the way you give me a chance to contemplate things at least for a little while. You contextualize things very well.

@hamlordofpork 4 года назад

Culture belongs to the whole world regardless of blood

@PlatinumAltaria 4 года назад

Actually all culture belongs to me specifically, and I will fight you.

@zainiadnan2335 4 года назад

That was very peaceful

@nedisahonkey 4 года назад

@@PlatinumAltaria Bruh Sammy would wreck your shit on behalf of all makind. I'm talking an Armstrong or Aldrin level of ass kicking.

@TheThomeck 4 года назад

They can use whatever they want. I meen dont i ..deserve protection from the sea dragons and forest spirits as a dutch man. ?

@colleennewholy9026 4 года назад

I'm Native American (Lakota), and one of the "gods" my ancestors had, was a water monster that is basically something like an Chinese Dragon, but more fishlike and very, very copper colored So I mean... technically we can all have a Shisa?

@crazydragy4233 4 года назад

Colleen New Holy i think most pagan cultures had those sorts of things :d

@treasurehunter3369 4 года назад

Great premise for a video! I love stuff that makes you look inside yourself and ask yourself the hard questions

@cefgil3905 4 года назад

Great video as always!

@kwill81 4 года назад

Very well put. I often feel the same way about all the Ainu designs esp in gift shops up here in Hokkaido.

@Riverwytche 4 года назад

The credits on this video are pure gold.

@maybelikealittlebit 4 года назад

I’ve personally never wanted to travel outside my own country much because I live on Vancouver Island (which is a vacation in itself) and I always felt like I could live vicariously through most videos, but something about this island makes me want to visit. Great video! 👍

@CalamityDiamond 4 года назад

Who controls the Shiisa? Nobody, the Shiisa controls us.

@cutecatsara123 3 года назад

You could make a religion out of this.

@fussick7121 4 года назад

When you don’t want to write credits because your niece is in town and is cute

@whistlerwade 4 года назад

I'm Greek and I am pissed about God of War.

@firebladetenn6633 4 года назад

Whistler Wade I have always wondered about this.

@fishsmell2570 4 года назад

🤣

@megatronVS 4 года назад

Maybe fix your economy before you worry about something so minor 😜

@firebladetenn6633 4 года назад

megatronVS Right? It’s absolutely shameful! This guy absolutely should fix the economy of Greece before having a mild opinion about video games that mutilate his history. Some people are just lazy...

@nwclark 4 года назад

@@megatronVS fix ur healthcare system before attacking someones "minor" opinion

@CaCtuSnyan 4 года назад

The script for this video was amazingly well written!

@Akko1 3 года назад

I saw one Shisa here at Mexico, it really looked genuine, at the Gran Mayan Hotel Entrance on Puerto Vallarta. Interesting they have this whole lore behind them, I had no idea and only took photos because it looked stunning.

@VilliageSquidiot 4 года назад

I don't know why but the only word I get when I watch this is "Overthinking"

@nedisahonkey 4 года назад

Inserts "first time?" meme.

@VilliageSquidiot 4 года назад

@@alhassani626 lul

@RAFMnBgaming 4 года назад

@@alhassani626 And here comes the eugenicists. Lovely.

@vidard9863 4 года назад

Remember when imitation was the sincerest form of flattery? Good times those.

@AceCmbatguy25 4 года назад

I am, as usual, binging your videos and man...Your videos are like home.

@TheElectra5000 4 года назад

One video was enough to make me subscribe. Great contenet and analisys. Thank you.

@argenys8 4 года назад

i feel like the term "racist/racism" has been watered down so much the past couple decades. anyways wouldnt it be more "racist" to gatekeep who can and cant own a shisa based on race/ethnicity.

@ajnazatahm 4 года назад

Ash Ketchum Only if you're entirely ignoring any and all historical context. Who can and can't use a swastika? Why or why not? Is it racist to have thoughts on this that are culturally enforced?

@samuelhong4272 4 года назад

@@ajnazatahm the swastika has historical context aside from Nazism, however. It has been perverted and can certainly change for the better now. Both perspectives are rather simpleminded, no?

@ajnazatahm 4 года назад

Samuel Hong Sure, it could certainly become a positive symbol again. But when can that be allowed to happen? What cultural contexts need to shift and evolve? Symbols are so powerful and pervasive in societies. Their meanings and associations are INCREDIBLY difficult to remarry for the good. Most symbols tend to die out or become frowned upon. It's only when the cultural contexts and traumas associated with the symbols are so far removed by time AND social growth (e.g. For the swastika to become okay to use again in the West, there could probably no longer be hate groups using the swastika, and the Jewish people and other POC would need to live with complete and full confidence that there are no longer groups targeting their very existence with violence) that a symbol's negative connotation can become positive again. At least that's my current perspective :)

@Originalman144 4 года назад

There’s no such thing as racism. There is only respect and disrespect/ hate and love / good and evil.

@hauntologicalwittgensteini2542 4 года назад

@J R how dense are you ? he literally just defoned racism

@kornx10 4 года назад

Whoever can make them appealing to look at and it doesn't matter who buys them.

@harrisdavid912 3 года назад

This is a really cool perspective, and I'm glad to have seen it. I think it's important to respect the wishes of those ancestrally connected to the symbols. If the native Okinawans (which auto correct on my phone apparently had in its default dictionary, but not capitalized) decide that it's an inappropriate use of their culture and wish for you to stop, it's expected that you take a step back and try to have a conversation with them, and figure out what, if any, context would make your use of their symbols okay with them.

@Zawfee 4 года назад

I really appreciate the recent videos about Okinawa. I miss being there and hope I get to go back.

@commanderboreal1343 4 года назад

The moment you mentioned blood I realized how ridiculous this all is... Ridiculous and complicated...

@jonsimpson6240 4 года назад

It's not that complicated, do what you want. People will either take an interest and learn, or not and continue on.

@iandalziel7405 4 года назад

Nice - shots of lyin' dogs while talking of Lion Dogs... ...is that like a 'meataphor'? or a 'meta-metaphor'?

@rickc2102 4 года назад

Daaaaad, you're not funny.

@andgainingspeed 4 года назад

Liked the way you framed up the ideas around the shisa. In the end, I wonder if anyone can own culture, but the connections people feel to it invariably lead to the desire to own it, and protect it in same way we protect material things, and use as one of the pieces people build identities with. How parts for identity are chosen, the number of parts and who gets to decide what is available, is fun to think about.

@tobyevans2474 3 года назад

What a great video. I love your videos. You have me crying. Very emotional and symbolic.

@FallingStary 4 года назад

The history of those colonized islands is a brutal one. But when you started talking about how many mixed people lived there this is something I want to look into. As someone who is mixed, too often I am part of, more so "not enough", of whatever percentage you want to focus on in my genetics. I want to visit a place where you can practice multiple traditions and be with others where one is different but the same. And where you dont have to 90% plus of whatever ethnic background or else your "soiled". Cultural appropriation is a far too active area of my life.

@won1853 4 года назад

Here's an idea: Why don't we just get along with each other? It's literally just a stone statue.

@DarkLordOfSweden 4 года назад

Wars have literally been waged for lesser things, for you it may be pointless, but for some its a thing of great importance

@PlatinumAltaria 4 года назад

But people are doing things I don't like!

@yaboib3074 4 года назад

This channel is a rare gem in the haystack of monanteny that is RU-vid. God bless your journey friend.

@spitfirered 4 года назад

Excellent Video and An Excellent Point On This Issue Well Defined, Thank You!

@Sara3346 4 года назад

10 second and I suspect I'm about to fail because I think everyone should be allowed to build something like that.

@user-yv2cz8oj1k 4 года назад

It's about good luck, why would they deny someone that?

@Sara3346 4 года назад

@@user-yv2cz8oj1k Cultural hoarding it seems like to me from my vauge memory of the video?

@jerry3790 4 года назад

Finally, a test I’ll be able to pass. I hope

@darkblade24601 4 года назад

You shall not pass!

@noahdutel535 4 года назад

Thanks for this video. My mom is a Miyako native, and speaks the language and holds the language. I love when my culture is taught properly and the history of Okinawa is explained correctly

@GiGiGiWest 4 года назад

Good golly, I just love your videos. Not too much exciting to say about this video except thanks. You're helping make RU-vid better

@joshuagoodwin9180 4 года назад

Okinawa: Culturally appropriates lion dogs from China. Literally anyone else: Culturally appropriates lion dogs from Okinawa. Idiots: HOW DARE YOU!

@scoreunder 3 года назад

"Who's allowed to build one" Under whose authority?

@ZombieHitler 4 года назад

I appreciate the maturity of your content.

@CaliRed1865 4 года назад

I love your videos. I love the credits page even more.

@thekarategirl5787 4 года назад

You should be respectful of the culture, the context, the traditional use and the history of the item you want to use from another culture. Don't wear ceremonial garb for a non ceremonial reason or just to dress up. Other cultures are not costumes.

@fishsmell2570 4 года назад

Or just live your best life? Kind of dumb to worry about made up stuff.

@PlatinumAltaria 4 года назад

Why should I be respectful? It's not my culture. I'm not going to go out of my way to insult people, but they don't get to claim ownership of ideas.

@WindshieldWasherCocktail 4 года назад

4:43 Cafe Cahaya Bulan. I wonder if it is owned by a Malay or Indonesian. Regardless, the multiculturalism really shows.

@petergray2712 4 года назад

The Austronesian peoples (Polynesian, Malay, Javanese) originally came from Taiwan, which is just a few hundred miles away. This part of the East China Sea has seen Chinese, Korean, Malayan and Japanese sailors crossing through the Ryukyus for centuries.

@diceland512 4 года назад

really cool video concept!

@beastofedelwood1473 4 года назад

I thought this was going to be some psychological racism test involving a lion statue

@HisameArtwork 4 года назад

Eeeeeh as a mix ethnically middle eastern, born in east Europe who lived in USA and is now teaching japanese among other stuff... I think the intention matters most with this stuff, and asking the community from which something originated is key, so you try and be as little tone deaf as possible. We have google now too, it's gotten so easy to research stuff and reach out. I like to wear cheap kimonos and vampire costumes for Halloween as far as I know japanese people are not to upset about that (or they were to polite to say no), and on the other hand I don't like it when foreigners make a mockery of my birth country's national hero Vlad Dracul the Impaler, he wasn't just some monster to kill in a video game anymore than Washington was a thieving slaver , misogynist who butchered his own blood to get rich quick, and betrayed his god anointed monarch on earth....as propaganda and sin counting goes I think Washington would have a better chance at the title of Juda's son and first vampire, father of vampire kind. I love vampire stories as much as the next person, and we do have some great ones, Extra Credit did my birth country some justice on that, and the odd mention in Harry Potter and alike are welcomed. Cheap gutting of the culture like Netflix's Castlevenia or Sabrina S3 is less in good taste imo.

@Tsukuyomi28 3 года назад

The vampire pretty much just used the name and general location.

@WarisAmirMohammad 4 года назад

I build my own damn shisha whenever I want to thank you.

@bleutz 4 года назад

My first oversea assignment in 1979 was Kadena Air Base on Okinawa. I learned a lot from it and made some good friends. The culture there is unique and the food worth the trip.

@rachelwhite4271 4 года назад

I lived on an American Base on Okinawa from 2010-2013, and it was a beautiful place. The culture and history- even as revealed in this video, is very rich, and easy to feel welcome in. The shisha are definitely a inescapable presence, both on and base and off. I have a modest collection of miniature shisha dogs, and I’m glad to learn more about them. I really miss the island, and hope to go back someday.

@stevedgrossman 4 года назад

This was cool. What Japan did during WWII (and before) was mostly swept under the rug. They mostly escaped the consequences of their hideous acts, unlike Germany.

@Tsukuyomi28 3 года назад

Most of the government leaders were executed or sent to prison in a trial where they basically weren't allowed to defend themselves. But the occupation was a bit simpler because only one country was occupying Japan.

@j.kaimori3848 3 года назад

Japan got away with a lot, and got a helping hand too. But there was a lot of history back to WWI for why that was. It does suck that the history is still ignored 60 years later.

@Thane3999 4 года назад

The more you learn...

@vicio19995 4 года назад

as a spaniard i cant comprehend the term cultural apropiation , that is how always has been here, you see something cool, you integrate that, you use that, thay see something yours that is cool, they use that and everyone improves and enjoys

@soundknight 4 года назад

Wow I didn't know this and I have been there, thank you for sharing this.

@pagatryx5451 4 года назад

It isn't racist. Many people have statues, decorations and symbols in their homes without being of that particular culture or religion. Is it racist to have a buddha in your home? Or a Maneki-Neko? Or the native American dream catcher? The answer is no. The reason why a native Indian headdress is offensive is because of the military history behind the headdress. A white Canadian mimicking the Cherokee war cry is offensive because of it being directly related to their military conflict, but a white Canadian performing on a Cherokee stringed instrument would be fine. I am not Okinawan but am Irish. I would have no issue with anybody English trying to use a tin whistle, trying Irish dancing, or having a Celtic cross or shamrock ornament in their house. But I would have issue if they dressed up as an Irish rebel. Well I wouldn't because I am not offended by non-antagonistic racism but quite a lot of people would be.

@yaboib3074 4 года назад

Well there you go being a decent human being......

@rioreason 4 года назад

I would have preferred to hear opinions on the topic straight from the mouths of the locals. There’s a big difference between APPRECIATION and APPROPRIATION. It all depends on how it’s handled. So many liberal Americans have gone bananas with this “cultural appropriation” bullshit. If the intentions are positive and respectful, then there’s really no issue. Personally, I love people appreciating my family’s traditions, and if they want to adopt them, the more the merrier. It helps continue the tradition.

@rioreason 4 года назад

Bigfoot Yes. Thank you. Everything we have is inspired by something or someone that came before it.

@HoytJolly 4 года назад

Just do what makes you happy. Hearts should be free to do what the spirit calls.

@ianjohnson3274 4 года назад

I bought a set of these when I lived in Okinawa. They have followed me to every house I've lived in since :)

@CJusticeHappen21 4 года назад

Lions vs. Dragons? I thought that was Game of Thrones. Or, at least, The Gentlemen.

@Sara3346 4 года назад

That's because they're both clearly borrowing from existing motifs X-D

@CJusticeHappen21 4 года назад

@@Sara3346 What motif is that? I understand that both Dragons and Lions have been associated with royalty, nobility in countries both western and eastern, so I always just assumed that the works were playing with those established symbols. I'm not aware of any actual myth involving lions and dragons; do you know of one?

@user-yv2cz8oj1k 4 года назад

St. George and the dragon, Jesus and the lion with a poorly paw, and that's just Christianity, there are a lot of myths, often created to elevate a figure, personally I think the dragon had bad public relations advice compared to the lion.

@CJusticeHappen21 4 года назад

@@user-yv2cz8oj1k No, these I am familiar with. Nothing with just Lions and Dragons, then?

@zondrakj 4 года назад

What I find interesting about the discourse on cultural appropriation among Americans is that it's a left wing talking point and yet it's fundamentally very nationalist and mentally similar to something very right wing. In it's impossible pursuit of historical justice, it's enforcing monolithic and often mythical ideas of nationhood.

@captainawasome8985 4 года назад

It's easy, as a foreigner you do as the locals do. Even Ambrosius knew this 1600 years ago.

@quoth_raven 2 года назад

Culture is like ethnicity: it cannot really be defined or owned... It's a human creation and, like language, is never static, ever changing.

@tyler1234321 4 года назад

I love these types of discussion, but I usually end with thinking to myself that, this is why religious superstitions ain't so great.

@Laughing_Chinaman 4 года назад

diversity is our strength also KEEP TO YOUR OWN KIND OR ELSE

@celenaforan4199 2 года назад

I was born and raised in Okinawa Japan. I’m so grateful you guys shared the story and recognize that our history, our ancient wisdom is slowly being wiped away and we aren’t doing anything to stop it. My goal is to build a conscious music festival in Okinawa japan. To dive deep within our Ryukyushinto culture. Not modern, the Old ways.

@Raptormau 3 года назад

I love you conclusion, gives me a lot to think about.

@samuelbrook-williams1529 4 года назад

They look like pugs to me. I have one that protects my house......

@Tsukuyomi28 3 года назад

I highly recommend googling pug skulls.

@storminmormin14 4 года назад

If someone takes part in another’s culture that represents cooperation and merging of cultures not the destruction of one. The cavalrymen didn’t wear feathered head dresses. The slave holders didn’t sing African spirituals. The British don’t sing the star spangled banner. If someone starts doing those things then it’s a pretty good sign they don’t hold you in contempt. (Keep in mind this is in a non-mocking context. Minstrel shows were totally a thing. Also if you don’t know the intent don’t assume that it’s negative. People who assume bad intents of others, because of the color of their skin, are what I like to call racists.)

@ianvandevelde7826 4 года назад

I lived in Okinawa for 4 years on kadena Air Force base from when I was 8-12 I think it was the most beautiful place I have ever lived and my parents still have two shisa. My fond memories of Okinawa are the reason I took a gap year and lived in Taiwan after high school and visited Okinawa during that year. I understand the complicated history of the small East Asian islands and their tragic colonial history but from what I have seen the Taiwanese and Okinawans are more excited to share their native culture than to see it used by people that are not natives. Loved the vid