Incredibly arrogant/racist take that reduces Japanese people to passive recipients of Western influence as if they had no agency of their own for more than half a century.
AI slop aside, everybody seems to talk about romanization exclusively from the perspective of Japanese learners, while the biggest problem with Kunrei-shiki and Nihon-shiki is how they've been sabotaging Japanese…
Incredibly arrogant/racist take that reduces Japanese people to passive recipients of Western influence as if they had no agency of their own for more than half a century.
AI slop aside, everybody seems to talk about romanization exclusively from the perspective of Japanese learners, while the biggest problem with Kunrei-shiki and Nihon-shiki is how they've been sabotaging Japanese…