Completely off topic, but are you talking Madoka Magicka? If so, what parts of that show are you referring too? (I ask because I love critical analysis of media and the discussion of such, especially in regards to animation - Western, Japanese, or otherwise)Fox12 said:I keep hearing this. I didn't realize Japan was so... I don't want to say backwards, but certainly conservative. It does make me view ghibli and madoka in a more positive light, though, since they were evidently trying to make a statement.The Almighty Aardvark said:I've got this second hand from a number of sources so take this with a heaping handful of salt, but...Fox12 said:My big question is what is Japans obsession with a woman who can cook? Seriously, every anime I've seen involves a woman cooking a boxed lunch for her crush. Persona 3 built an entire social link around learning how to cook (snore). Persona 4 used it as a recurring joke. Most countries dropped the whole "the way to a mans heart is through his stomach" bit in the 50's. It's not even about gender stereotypes, I just think it's weird.
I've heard that Japan still has a very much "Woman does the chores and housework, man makes the bread" culture. At the very least in regards to married couples. It's fine for a woman to have a career while she's single, but once she's married she's supposed to settle down and be a house wife. I've heard that this is a lot of the reason why there's an increasing number of single men and women in Japan, the women don't want to forgo their career and have to settle down.
This might be why, because when you get married to a woman they're going to be responsible for food, cleaning, etc... and you want to be sure they're good at it. A professor of mine lived in Japan for a number of years and a lot of people he knew there were dumbstruck when they saw him doing the dishes, asking him what he did to make his wife angry
On Topic: I wouldn't know, seeing as how I know no Asian or Indian people. I will disagree with the notion, however, that one's sexual preferences make them bigoted or racist, in the same way that a gay man isn't sexist for preferring men. It's a backwards, toxic mentality to assume such and it spits in the face of the very concept that we do not choose what we get turned on by or fall in love with (a concept I'd imagine most of us agree with).