It always surprises me how vicious some people react when confronted with Japanese pop culture (it's not only anime or the cute aspects of it). You see what you thought as normal people say things like "we should have dropped three," or "the camps were a good idea" (referencing the concentration camps in America for Japanese immigrants).

I sometimes try to understand this sudden rage and hatred at the slightest trace of anything Japanese, but I can't get my head around it. Rather than an intellectual obstacle, I fail to empathize with these feelings. To me it feels like a criminal, murderous energy seething with hatred and perhaps jealousy.