By "Western" you mean American, because most of those things don't apply in the Western world as a whole. In fact, 100% of your examples were American examples.
Also, I take offense to a number of your stereotypes of Christianity. Your argument against Sundays is rather unfounded because most people simply don't like working every single day of the week. It's much more efficient to have one day of the week where almost no one works, especially in an office environment or anything involving group work. Also, not all Christians nor all of Christianity is "oppressive" and conservative; a majority, perhaps, but you should be blaming the *people*, not the religion, especially when you consider that the religion specifically teaches that we should treat one another with kindness and respect regardless of background.
Oh, and the Sunday rule applies everywhere, not just the West. Japan for example doesn't have school on Sunday.
As for video games, blame the publishers instead of the developers, especially considering the job market. If a developer has the choice between having a stable job making a standard game or taking a risky job involving a new game that might not even be published depending on certain situations (i.e. cancellation), they're going with the safe option. Very few people want to be starving artists.
Do you have any better ideas for video game enemies in modern times set in the real world? Our last big enemy WAS Soviet Russia, and our enemy now are terrorists. There aren't really many more realistic options than that.
You don't have to listen to Western pop if you don't want to. If there's a commercial with it, skip it with Tivo or do something else in the meantime. If it's on the radio, change the station or use your ipod/computer.
Also, cartoons were specifically made in the first place to be aimed at children. That's not saying that all cartoons are for children, just that in most cases it's hard to take the genre seriously simply because it looks cartoony. Most anime AND most western cartoons are made for kids though are made for kids. There's a reason why the main anime/manga genre is called shounen; the kanji literally mean "young age".
And just a note, most action oriented anime tend to use cheap tricks like make the background a single color instead of what's actually in the background, do still shots of characters only talking, repeating the same actions over again during a battle, etc that western animators tend to avoid. In most western cartoons for example, people actually DO THINGS while they're talking instead of sitting in one place. Compare an episode of Naruto to an episode of Justice League: Unlimited and you'll see what I mean.
There were no women in the Red Guard, they were all teenagers, and the Red Guard had nothing to do with shooting people.
When celebrities do stupid stuff they a lot of the time don't end up making money out of it. Prime example being Charlie Sheen.
This is coming from a person who loves Japanese culture btw.
