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Anonymous
>>116535 Pretty much. Europeans who have actually seen social unrest in the past hundred years have a realistic view of it, with all the problems (1956), benefits (1989) and mixed bags (1968) it can provide.
In the United States, on the other hand, the last real major rebellion was more than 150 years ago. (The sixties don't count, they were co-opted like a motherfucker and the nothing compared to '68 in Europe, except Chicago and a few other incidents.) A third of the population idolizes the rebellion from 150 years ago, and another third idolizes in some form or fashion the pseudo-"rebellion" of the 1960s. And almost everyone idolizes the rebels of a certain 1776. Either way you split it, Americans have a romanticized view of rebellion as something cool and hip, which is to say fashionable, and suited to be expressed through consumer product choices.
Japanese society favors order, so calling anything "rebel" is probably out.
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