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Anime fans: Stop being racist part 1/?: GANGS AND MAFIA

 Some things that I need to clear up that I see a lot of people messing up. I'm going to be calling a lot of people out here.

Yakuza is not the Japanese word for gang. The Yakuza are a specific game where a lot of the original members are dead. A lot of people calling themselves Yakuza today are posers.

You can't have Japanese Mafia. First of all of this this thing called culture. Second of all there's this thing called geographic location in relation to culture. Mafia is Italian. Yakuza is Japanese. The "however many numbers families" e.i. "the four families" is also an Italian(-American) Mafia reference. They don't have that in Japan either.

There's way more to gangs than what's going on in Italy and Japan. stop romanticizing gangs if you're not going to add in the crips and bloods, because a lot of people that I'm addressing that are having these issues are Americans. A lot of y'all are getting your information from the romanticized versions of the Italian-American Mafia, when the crips and bloods are way more prevalent in our culture. Stop being racist.

At the same time, if you wrote a story now, you would have to write it very differently because of the crips and bloods have United because of the black lives matter movement of George Floyd's public lynching.

Stop being racist is never bad advice. So stop being racist.

Not every gang has to be around for hundreds of years and have them establish background. There can be small gangs that are just made to protect their territory.

Japan has universal healthcare and universal basic income. Despite their social flaws, their overall governance is better than the United States. The same could be said for a lot of countries, though. Even though the United States is a large place with a number of issues, a lot of gangs have put down their shit to come together for black lives matter. we are in a post George Floyd world now, and you're going to have to catch the fuck up.

The term reverse harem is gross because it's colonialism, homophobia, misogyny, and xenophobia that has told the lie that harem isn't a unisex term. Harem is a unisex term, and there has been mixed gender harems throughout the cultural history that has harems. Some more terms for you to learn or polygamy, polyandry, and polyamory. a lot of you like to feed into the polyandry, which is one partner with all six of the characters.

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