America is not grateful for what they have. In particular, I want to talk about how America is taking advantage of other countries, mainly Japan. A while ago, the Japanese government enforced an anti-piracy act/law which is their attempt to remove illegally uploaded copies of anime and manga. If you don't know, anime and manga are forms of entertainment that started in Japan, but then popularized all all around the world, manga being the Japanese version of a comic book, and anime being the animated version of the manga.
According to http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/136501-Japanese-Government-Enforcing-Anti-Piracy-Law-on-Anime-and-Manga-Update, online piracy has made Japan lose nearly 20 billion dollars. This act is trying to cut the sources of scanlations in order to make it so people buy the manga legally. Scanlation is when manga is tranlated into a different langauge and put online so that people can read it for free. The newest edition of both the Japanese and English version of Weekly Shonen Jump, one of the most popular magazines featuring multiple mangas, is offically released on Mondays (http://shonenjump.viz.com/faq). Previously, people who worked on scanlations would get access to it before its official release and so it would be online around Wednesday of the previous week. This act has not completly gotten rid of scanlations but it has improved slightly as now, the scanlations are online on Mondays, the day of the official release, as opposed to Wednesdays. However, this has caused many people to start complaining about having to wait extra days for the new chapters.
Japan wants us to buy manga, but we don't. We are getting free entertainment and yet we still complain. We are taking advantage of Japan and causing them to lose billions of dollars as they work hard to publish and create manga. It isn't just manga as animes are also steamed illegally and put online for us to watch for free when we are supposed to buy it. We also download roms of video games made not just by Japan, but from many other countries so that we can play them for free. Another example is downloading free music. There are so many other things that we have freeloaded off. America has had all of this free for a long time now but we are still not grateful, as we expect even more.
This post was inspired by a video of an anime and manga reviewer that I watched, with some of the information in this post coming from it. As a warning, the video does have some language in it so don't watch it if you don't like foul langauge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=texORzra1JQ&list=UU_LDTZuy4FWeVcsVU2kfoww
