>>49193777>>49193801Additionally the big nose is a westerner cliche so the other forms have it fit the "american" stereotype it has going on. Timburr has a "pompadour" on his head and Gurdurr loses that for curly hair, another thing Japan identifies as American. They also have short legs because the stereotype of yankii is that they squat all the time.
>The etymology of the term “yankii” (pronounced yahn-kee) is contested. Some call it a corruption of the American “yankee,” but most agree the group only loosely adopted the moniker following Japan’s first introduction to American G.I. culture — rock ’n’ roll music and army/navy surplus clothes. Author Ikuya Sato’s research points to a “general impression of vulgarity and gaudiness associated with Americans or American popular culture as a possible reason for the application of this term to a deviant sartorial style.”>Yankii often dye their hair red or blonde and, if associated with bōsōzoku gangs, as many from the Kansai region are, wear long jackets embroidered with kanji characters that signify their group names and mottos. More recently, yankii women wear modified school uniforms, or miniskirts and platforms. In general, members can be seen posing in the unko suwari position, also known as the “shit squat.” Writes Sato, the “pervasive tone of their gatherings is boredom and the vague anticipation of something that may happen” — the prevailing tone of disaffected youth the world over.>Yankii members tend to stay in tight-knit communities formed during middle school and maintained into adulthood. As they grew up in the late 1980s and early ’90s, yankii men occasionally entered construction and teen women had children and dropped out of high school — both stereotypes that persist today.All of this is lost outside of Japan who just see "haha big funny red nose is circus clown man"
