18th September 2010, 12:52 PM
I get the impression that you guys would probably be in for a shock if you ever actually visited Japan, getting all your knowledge indirectly from anime fans online or wherever you do. The internet is a vast place full of hidden subcultures. It'd be like if someone found out about our "lovely cow" and spread it around as a common American cultural thing.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)