>>99779115japanese culture has a healthy relationship with their stereotypes, so they slip into their roles like boke and tsukkomi routine and everything still feels genuine, because nobody draws the meta attention to it.
West got poisoned by the modernism, so everything is done "ironically", halfassedly, signaling that they're aware of the trope, but they're doing it anyway, but "ironically", so you know they're "acting" - and it makes it cringe and painful to watch
