I explicitly support this and encourage the cultural exchange.

If someone wants to come to America and wear a cool cowboy hat and shoot a wheel gun, please, enjoy. Have fun. Welcome.

Howdy, my name is Rawhide Kobayashi. I'm a 27 year old Japanese Japamerican (western culture fan for you foreigners). I brand and wrangle cattle on my ranch, and spend my days perfecting the craft and enjoying superior American passtimes. (Barbeque, Rodeo, Fireworks) I train with my branding iron every day, this superior weapon can permanently leave my ranch embled on a cattle's hide because it is white-hot, and is vastly superior to any other method of livestock marking. I earned my branding license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day. I speak English fluently, both Texas and Oklahoma dialect, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about American history and their cowboy code, which I follow 100% When I get my American visa, I am moving to Dallas to work in an oil field to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become a cattle wrangler for the Double Cross Ranch or an oil rig operator for Exxon-Mobil! I own several cowboy hats, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to America, so I can fit in easier. I rebel against my elders and seniors and speak English as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond. Wish me luck in America!

The "wild west" is a mostly invented culture anyway. It's like high fantasy middle Europe, tiki bars, pirates of the carribian, ninjas... Can you really claim appropriation when the underlying culture is essentially a fiction?

In real terms, what we think of as "the wild west" was made up by mostly-Italian movie directors.

Not to even mention the screenshot is an English-language film that is unambiguously parody.

The Japanese can get obsessed with anything

If the weeb door swings both ways they must get pumped about someday coming to America and handling a real gun.

Hellaou…mai naime is..kowboy tanaka

Also don't forget that japanese "chicanos" exist

Nihon-dy

You can just say Hideo Kojima.

Good ol' westaboos.

Tsukiyaki Western Django has nothing to do with this movement, I think, but it is great seeing a western featuring an all Japanese cast doing lines in English and Quentin Tarantino doing lines in Japanese

So, here's an idea I had, related to cross-culture admiration:

If we had a Team Fortress 3, we'd want more voice lines for Soldier. Unfortunately, Rick May has passed away. If we're to honor the Jane Doe character, it may be preferable to replace the character instead of re-cast him (and claim that Doe is off fighting the perpetual war against the Eagle Legions up north).

That said, it'd be boring to just get a straight copy of the old Soldier, but also suck to lose the theme of American Patriotic Rocket Trooper. So what if TF3's Soldier was a Japanese immigrant that is incredibly bored with Japanese tradition, and is obsessed with everything American instead? Kinda like the cowboy theme in this meme. Curious if that sounds interesting at all.

You leave Hideo Kojima alone!

I'm pretty sure that's a romulan.

I had a professor named Akira Yamamoto that had this obsession and became an expert on certain native American languages. He always wore cowboy boots.

But they call it the wild east