>>498198491. Self-loathing is in vogue.
2. Seething third-worlders and immigrants who think they're better than Americans or that they know more about the world because they came from somewhere else, where values are more traditional.
3. Western fans have a tendency to misinterpret and then try to fill in the blanks of their own ignorance with their own selfish interpretations. With Pokemon this is especially rife as not only was the west deprived of critical information regarding lore, pains were taken to Americanize Pokemon as much as possible back when it first started. tl;dr, because Americans are loud and wrong.
t. American.
