Lacking respect for the original work when it comes to translation is not solely a western thing. Anyone who has ever read a Japanese localisation of a western property would also know this.
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Kinda wish I saved more than just this over the last 20 years, but nevertheless this image is a perfect encapsulation of Japanese 'glass heart' localisation.
I'm personally waiting for someone on this website to do a side-by-side comparison of western media and their Japanese localisations. Though as someone who has occasionally done this in an effort to improve my own translation abilities, my starter pack recommendations are the Japanese version of Blizzard's 'Starcraft' and ICOM Simulations' 'Shadowgate'. In Japan, their localisations are notoriously bad, but in Shadowgate's case, the game was changed so much, it has turned itself into a meme that dwarf's both 'all your base are belong to us' and 'what is a man but a miserable pile of secrets'.
However, Westerners do feel the need to voice their opinions. Nowadays, professional localisers remind me of hackers and fan translators maintaining their tyrannical despot in the form of an IRC channel where they kick, ban, and mock regular users and leechers, getting in petty squabbles. On the other hand, every Japanese person I know on social media is terrified of voicing their own opinion. If you look at their accounts on places like Twitter, you would notice hardly any of them have a photograph of themselves as their avatar. And the reason for this is because of what is known as The HaseKara Calamity (
KRSW-Wiki), which puts the goofball efforts of Somethingawful, 4chan, and Kiwi Farms to shame (these guys are intelligent and really, really mean). Thanks to their online harassment campaigns that encroach upon the real world, hardly anyone feels safe. The ones who do voice their opinions candidly understand they've now put themselves on a surfboard and would need to weather the Hasekara waves to riches and glory, otherwise they'll fall into a sea of depression.
Japan may seem like a utopia, but that comes at the price of being an oppressive hell where it's not just Big Brother watching you, but EVERYONE is watching you ("We're watching you... Scum..."). Personally, as someone who is innately introverted and very private, I don't mind this sort of oppressive atmosphere; it's easy to put up a Tatamae Mask and keep your Honne to yourself.