Oh great, so I just point out that there is a good deal of bad cosplay in the US (which is, you know, true? Also, I'm not saying there isn't a lot of great cosplay there and elsewhere as well), and suddenly I'm anti-western and a hater of western cosplay? I'm western, and I have cosplayed. And I have a ton of cool pictures of lots of other people's good cosplays that I have taken at conventions in the UK and Norway, which are both, you know, western countries (though I've also taken pictures in Japan). I've seen lots of cool cosplay pictures from elsewhere as well, including from the US (and eastern countries like Japan itself of course). Don't be so defensive.