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I've seen the t-shirts. I actually believe most Japanese naïvely have no idea that their abbreviating First Kitchen sounds like the term fucking. Some younger people might, but even they don't really seem to hear it. It's not intentional adolescent cleverness.
This is a land where an extremely overweight, deep voiced transvestite has his own TV show that has zero to do with being an overweight deep voiced transvestite. There's a willful blindness to irony and/or satire in Japan (and a surprising--to me--amount of cross-dressing.) But then there's a great deal of Japanese comedy that I just don't get.
it would honestly be more surprising to me if they didn't cross-dress; I'd actually kind of expect a race of people that seem to possess a below-average amount of sexual dimorphism -> they can pull it off more convincingly to be more into it on average
your example is kind of exhibit A there, but in fairness he's not wearing the female battle standard of 'literally all the makeup'
Yeah, there seems to be a lot of the 'that' emotion in play. I don't have a word for it; I don't have a word for the 'this' emotion that makes you appreciate intentional adolescent cleverness either, though its opposite/suppressant seems to come from prudishness/disgust reflex; maybe if [the thing that suffers disgust] is the group you get more of the 'that' emotion, since the 'this' emotion doesn't really work if [the thing targeted for disgust] is not you.
Considering how many puns Japanese media tends to contain, at least to my eyes, there's very little 'this'.
Do members of more homogenous cultures inherently possess more willing suspension of disbelief?
I don't understand your this/that paragraph, though you may be referencing something generally known that I do not know.
As for your last question, I have no idea, and don't imagine a study to determine some generalization on the topic would be feasible. Unless we're armchairing it, in which case maybe the high context culture (i.e. heavy reliance on implicit and nonverbal cues) prevents intentional obfuscation for humor's sake (as in the case of irony) from becoming widespread. But that's just me making stuff up.
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