Adamaris Smiley
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Remember all those American movies in the 80's where they always showed Japanese people as having bucked teeth, no fashion sense & glasses with really thick lenses? I had some Japanese flatmates at the time & they asked why they always did that in American films as they don't know any Japanese people like that & I really couldn't figure out where that silly stereotype had come from. Do you think people now see them as fashionable & cool because of Gwen Stefani choosing those Harajuku girls as her back up dancers? And that brought attention to the Harjuku fashion district in Japan & people realised Japanese can actually be cool? Or did Japan just become more fashionable as a society over the last 5 years or so? Did people liking sushi in the West have an influence over the change in our attitude towards them?