Values Dissonance/Quotes

"With those who follow a different Way it is useless to take counsel."

- Confucius

"And she kept calling the Indians niggers for some reason, so I said "No, no, no, it's the West Indians who are niggers. These people are Wogs."

- Major Gowen, who didn't have N-Word Privileges, on taking a girl to watch cricket.

"It's funny to think how we listen to Yellow Submarine in kindergarten, when in reality all four of the Beatles were high as shit when they wrote it. But that's ok, because unlike now, drugs weren't used to be cool, but to expand your mind (aka Jerry Garcia.)"

- Urban Dictionary on The Beatles

"Ivan Dobsky: Look out, Mr. Drummond! It's Nelson Bonjela, the most feared terrorist in all of South Africa! Mr. Drummond: It would be best if you just reversed all your 1970's preconceptions, Ivan."

- Monkey Dust

""I hope that, like Mark Twain, people one day look back at my work and say, 'Wow, that is actually pretty racist.'""

- Tina Fey, in her acceptance speech for the Mark Twain award

""It is different, yeah. It's a different morality, get used to it, or go home.""

- The Ninth Doctor, Doctor Who

"It is interesting that every country seems to have its own, most often irrational, opinion which type of behavior is a big no-no and which isn’t. In Germany prostitution is completely legal, but proving yourself to be an idiot by saying that the holocaust didn’t happen can land you in prison."

- The Rant of this Sandra and Woo, summing up the trope in two sentences.

""When many of us sit down and play titles that come out of Japan, we are specifically playing them because they are nothing like what we can get here. They often touch on subjects which are considered taboo to some western audiences, or tackle subject matter that others are afraid to tread through. We don't play Japanese games [...] because they are representative of our western cultural values, we play them because they aren't. They allow us to grow by experiencing fiction and fun from the point of view of an entirely different culture, and we learn a new form of appreciation for the world through it.""

- Mandatory Fun, Change.org petition (1 Million Gamers Strong for Japanese Gaming)