Originally posted in response to a post praising “Western culture” for not being homophobic

[feotakahari]

A lot of people act like whatever culture they were born in is the only culture ever to have subcultures, and they treat everyone else as having the culture of the most powerful and influential people. For instance, if they’re not Japanese, they pretend Japanese gay subculture doesn’t exist, so they see it as both natural and inevitable for any Japanese person to adopt the bigger anti-gay culture of Japan. If you play along with that, and then you point out how shitty the dominant culture tends to be towards minorities, “my culture is good for being the one that has subcultures” is the obvious response. But it’s better to just say “other cultures have subcultures too.”