The younger generation seems to have the nation of Korea having an outside influence on their upbringing. I think the equivalent country for millennials is super obvious.
It's their neighbor. Japan πΎπ―π΅
We grew up watching anime after school. We were. We watched cartoons like they were sports. The Frieza versus Goku saga is like major Canon for us.
Sushi became normalized in the west as the '80s and '90s babies grew up π£. I posted a few days ago about the show Iron chef and I was surprised by how many people knew it.
Just the exaggerated epic style that Japanese people do things in. It's like they have absorbed American style wrestling and put their own twist on it and served it back to us in the west.
Albums like Kanye West's graduation obviously had a major influence from Japanese culture. I remember the whole teriyaki boys era of the late 2000s
Movies like spirited away was a winning Oscars, they were making and the fast and furious films set in Japan
The Japanese influence of weirdness seeped into other cultural movements. You can't tell me that the swept hair that the emo kids had wasn't at least somewhat influenced by what you see in Japan.
6.movies like spirited away. We're winning Oscars
- This was the Golden era of console gaming. Before streaming took away the social aspect of going to someone's house and gaming. Nintendo 64, super Nintendo, the strides that Playstation made into the 2000s. These products really defined many social activities for us millennials