You can divide culture and grammar. It's simple: your hypothetical long exchange can trchnically be expressed in the Japanese language at 1/5 the length and still retain grammatical correctness and meaning. i.e. the long exchange is not a result of the technical aspects of language, i.e. it has nothing to do with pronoun ommission. The cultural aspect of language is what makes the conversation long. And you're making a huge assumption about the context of the exchange. Is it between two strangers? Family members? Sibling? Friends? A king and a peasant? Classmates? All of these situations would have exchanges with different lengths and grammar, but this arises from the culture. We do the same thing in English too. On average, an email between a boss and an employee will probably be longer and more formal than between two friends, no? Not as long as an equivalent email in Japanese, but the same trend exists in both languages is my point.
KRAW
"Politness ping pong" has a lot less to do with the technical aspects of Japanese and more to co with cultural norms. i.e. it's not a design flaw in the grammar.
Have you not seen "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Legitimately not sure you're joking, so I'm just going to drop this in case you aren't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Americans (which is citing https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2022.B03001?q=B03001)
In 2022, Mexican Americans made up 11.2% of the US population and 58.9% of all Hispanic Americans.
In the US, yeah, you are more likely to speak to a Mexican than any other hispanic Spanish speaker.
I'm going to go against the grain and point out that these types of people generally live in areas where there are very few foreigners. The closest country with Spanish as their native language is Mexico. Given the lack of diverse exposure to people of different backgrounds, you can see whymany might default to Spanish speakers = Mexicans. That said, they are also likely to be undereducated as well...
It sounds like they think the movie is good, it just took too much money to make given it's lack of appeal to a wide audience. I think that makes sense.
Sorry, my original comment is a bit accusatory. I did not mean to say you (specifically) are the problem. I intended to say that more level-headed Christians are not what you see portrayed in media because it's the absolute psychos that are in positions of power, so that's what you (general) see in the media.
Persecution complex
I would never claim to be persecuted, but you specifically seem to paint with a broad brush.
Where are the outraged Christians trying to take their religion back?
There is nothing to "take back." True followers of Christ see through these extremists in government as easily as they see through a some snake-worshipping Christian cult. Christians have always known there will be many that will pervert the truth, so they are not surprised. The problem is ~~people like you just assume they are sitting around endorsing this behavior~~ the media makes it seem all Chritians endorse this behavior, but the challenge is the same as always: true Christians do not have the wealth and power to control political/religious messaging around the world. It kind of goes against some key points in their theology.
You might need to add sudo, OP
Gillian Anderson