Some modern Japanese TV audience members believe kids doing house chores in "My Neighbor Totoro" is depiction of child abuse after its first terrestrial rebroadcast in a few years: news.livedoor.com
Mishima was right. How do we destory the menace of American influence on other cultures?
We must first destroy america
Ebin journalism
I'd hate to see how they'd react to Only Yesterday, which actually has child abuse scenes...
>American influence
Is this the biggest cope meme of all time? These kids are spoiled. It’s not the Americans lol.
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The full context of the article makes sense.
>the father is a part time archaeologist lecturer
>highly educated but poor
>forcing a child to do household chores as a result of him being poor is abuse
It may have been lost in translation but I think it is more referring to, due to being poor and bringing a child into the house who you can't afford to do chores, is a form of abuse.
I disagree with the sentiment but it is logically sound. Don't bring kids you can't afford into the world as them needing to do unchildlike things as a result of your poor choices is abuse.
No taxation without representation.
No work without fair pay.
Those parents are communist.
>child abuse
It's not. By itself that is.
If you tell the child to do the chores or they get the belt, that's another thing.
Chores suck, and the parent not doing them is an indicator they're not pleasant for them either.
>being poor is child abuse
>the child helping around the house is child abouse
The absolute, absolute state
Its funny how weebs will act like japan is full of baby with no sense to themselves and will start accusing the "west influence" when they start adopting new ideals.
yes
Wong board retard
What are they supposed to do? Let the house get filthy? IIRC it's set in the 1950s or thereabouts, I don't know when Japan's postwar boom started but a family moving urgently to the countryside because the mother has TB or whatever is probably cast-down from the middle class, rather than bringing kids into the world they can't afford to give a decent quality of life. Both this and the point of view you describe are equally speculative given the little we're shown so neither is more 'logically sound' than the other, and the more correct answer would be "we're not shown enough to tell whether it's child abuse by that definition".
If Mishima was right? We must commit seppuku.
Children should be taught to work as soon as they can. This is literally how the world has always been, and the fact Japan and the US see this as wrong means you're degenerate.
Americans are a cancer on the world and are responsible for ruining every country.
Did they forget what year Totoro takes place in?
So you're willing to denounce, condemn, and in some cases destroy a civilization because a handful of people saw something on TV they don't like?
I would say that your behavior reeks much more of a spoiled, entitled, degenerate child then their's.
No, they're not saying getting a child to do house chores is abuse in and of itself but, again from the translation on my browser, it is the REASON she is doing it is abuse.
>the fact Japan sees this as wrong
No. Read my reply above.
You are fomenting the same propaganda that wants to ban alcohol until you are 25. You want people to be retarded needing daddy government telling them what to do with their lives.
You are a disgrace.
>Be poor and have your children help do chores
That's literally how life has been throughout the entire history for the majority of all living human beings up until rather recently. In Totoro the main issue isn't even money, it's the mother being sick.
Not remotely. It's more of an elitist mindset.
>you are poor
>because you are poor don't have kids
>being poor forces your kids to do chores they normally shouldn't do
Perfectly logical, if a bit PC.
I know that and I know that's how it's been historically. Peasants had a full army of workforces with them and their kids. They had to, it was a necessity. I understand the discrepency that we are seeing here in this thread.
People are frightened Japan is starting the non sensical American "PC" bullshit and yes, it is a concern. A very serious one when you look in how Britain has been devastated by it and entrenched in it. But I also think this is, hopefully, an exceptional case rather than the rule. Japan in general, even South Korea which Zig Forums loves going on about is a hot ass feminist infected shithole, is still socially a haven compared to American PC culture.
I am enraged by this article I can't read, the contents of which have possibly been sensationalized by an alarmist OP.
my parents made me do the dishes and the ptsd from that is why I'm unemployed and still living with them at 35 :(
Yeah, pretty much. God I remember the time when the "anime ban" was coming into place and Zig Forums was on fire years ago.
>you are poor
>because you are poor don't have kids
>being poor forces your kids to do chores they normally shouldn't do
But that's not the circumstances of the movie. You're implying they were too poor to have kids without being able to care for them, but the problem is that their mother got sick. Nothing implies they were so poor they had to force their children to work while the mother was healthy, or that the mother always were too sick to work and still had kids despite that.
To be fair, it's not made awfully obvious, what with the dreamy nature of Miyazaki's worlds it could easily be any time in the 20th century in a backwards rural area, to the casual watcher.
>Some
Stop letting the most fringe voices dictate the narrative
>>because you are poor don't have kids
>i get to say what you can do with your dick
nope
>>being poor forces your kids to do chores they normally shouldn't do
>implying you cant be poor and still do everything in your house to rise spoiled kids
rent free
But that's exactly how they are lol. Japs swallow up everything done by american culture.
That sounds pretty selfish of her.
I know that user. I do. I am just contextualizing, from again the translation and context of the article, why they may deem it as a case of "child abuse".
Sure, on welfare families and council housing but agai, read above.
Poor people have always had more children than a) they can afford and b) rich people. This is nothing unusual.
Yeah, remember to never contract some chronic or terminal illness if you have kids, lest you be accused of abusing them.
But then the article gets the context wrong and as such the entire argument is invalid. The reason the kids have to do chores is not because they're poor.
>Children should be taught to work as soon as they can
honestly yes, why do they make us waste so much time?
Yes, it's only common sense.
Well of course. I mean, the article is similar to any article, be it Japanese or otherwise, where they don't really delve very deep into the actual context of what they are discussing. We think in Zig Forums and Zig Forums, a lot of us anyway, that Japan is embroiled in anime culture. They're not. Outside of the tight circles of Japanese fans and participants/creators, the average Japanese person knows as much about anime as a Financial Controller on Wallstreet.
Their ease of dismissing it is similar to the lolicon/child pornography incident years ago towards anime. This is nothing new.
>Those parents are communist.
Someone is forgetting Miyazaki’s Marxist background
Why are you acting like it's some obtuse fact from some tie-in novel? It's in the movie. The same movie they found objectionable.
>So you're willing to denounce, condemn, and in some cases destroy a civilization because a handful of people saw something on TV they don't like?
Yes.
I can tell you have never had an African,Indian,or strict Asian parent in your life.
it builds character.
We're already doing it to ourselves. Don't worry, y'all don't have to even do anything.