See I appreciate the sentiment when people say "no culture is a monolith" but the problem with saying that is that people take it to mean "You see this country actually has exactly Two types of people: the evil homophobic orcs that you believe all Orientals to be, and people who have the exact same politics and sensibilities as you, western liberal" and not that like there are, for example, gay and trans people in the global south who are sincerely patriotic, love their own culture and people, and want to fight to change their cultures for the better on their own terms without imitating the imperial core.















