We all know that the west uses two different words for the same thing depending on where it is happening.
e.g. Secret Police vs Plainclothes Officer
Regime vs Government
Can we have a compilation thread of these words? I am probably using many of them unconsciously without critical examination.
cartoon sounds derogatory like “its just a cartoon” but anime sounds like a legitimate genre, although I guess it depends on how old you are
All cartoons are called anime in Japan. Same goes for comics and manga. It’s literally just the Japanese words for the media. People outside of Japan just use the words to refer to Japanese and Japanese-inspired animation and comics.
There’s a lot of loanwords that work the same way too. Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it’s correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.
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And in France we usually use comics to refer to US comics, in general DC and Marvel
Anime is a style of cartoon. The early 00’s teen titans and the current “My Adventures with Superman” are in the anime style, but clearly western.
Weebs claim that, say, The Last Airbender and Wakfu aren’t anime because of some mystical regional essentialism about where they were made.
