I've just wiped out my old feels, and starting anew. This time I will actually publish this stuff on my homepage, recording more personal stuff in my irl journal.

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> In addition, captions such as “WTF Japan” (an abbreviation for the
 rather crude phrase “What The Fuck Japan”) regularly accompany
 images considered strange in the English-speaking part of the
 internet.

and

> Serious attempts to understand the Shintō fertility festival are
 then moved to the background and the stereotype of Japanese as weird
 is enforced as a result...  Chikako Nihei (2009, p.  89) argues that
 “[o]nce people form an impression of a culture or a nation, they
 will believe that they have enough knowledge”, and striving for a
 more accurate understanding then becomes superfluous. This is a
 central element of how wacky orientalism persists.

from <a href="http://www.asiainfocus.dk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wacky-japan.pdf">Wacky Japan: A new face of orientalism</a> by Wester Wagenaar

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