What? In a LOT of countries in Asia, using soap and water after defacating is normal and for a lot of people, the American/European practice of using only toilet paper is considered unsanitary.
Tbh, censorship, name changes, OP/ED changes were still common in various countries. What's unique though with US & Canadian dubbing of anime though is the replacement of BGMs/Scores. Only the US & Canada did that. Other territories did not do that, except when they were forced to use the US dub
Looking back through some older print media in my country, they were still calling hits like Ranma 1/2 and Yu Yu Hakusho as just cartoons. All changed in the very late 90s to early 2000s.
The entire world experienced the 90s anime boom. The world also experienced a 70s/80s anime boom, except for the Anglosphere which had like 2 or 3 shows be moderately successful. Not even close to how big Heidi or Candy Candy was to the rest of the globe.
In fairness different countries had various levels of modifications when importing shows, but it id uniquely American/Canadian to replace the OST/Background Music of the shows leading to the phenomenon of the "Faulconer" score being a thing that's preferred only by Loud Americans.
*American anime fandom you mean. The rest of the non-Anglo western world already had various highly successful anime be big like Heidi or Candy Candy in the 70s and 80s. The experience of America is not a common experience to the entirety of the "West"
A lot of it is the insularity of the Anglosphere especially the USA. The rest of the non-anglo world is used to consuming foreign media be it American, East Asian, Mexican, Thai etc. but for the longest time in order for non-english media to be big in the US it had to be heavily modified
I get that using the term is cop-out-y but, aren't a lot if not most roaming dogs in the world native dogs? Like a rescue or street dog from Malaysia being labeled as "Native Malaysian Dog" makes sense. I guess this comes from a perspective where bred dogs are rarer and native dogs are common.
I can agree that dog dna testing is full of smoke and mirrors, but what do you mean by " reputation for throwing it in their results"? You mean that they tend to overuse "village dog"?
In my country, the SNES had relevance, at least to a degree. Only rich people afforded the actual console, but coin-operated SNES machines (in the style of arcades) existed so it still was able to have a reach.
The N64 though?Yeah relevant to only to specific people.
What's wrong with the term Asian Village Dog? Lots of dogs can be described as native dogs of a specific area descended from the same kind of native dogs of said area. Not all dogs are directly descended from western-recognized purebreeds. Terms like "Indonesian native dog" can be useful.
