The Japanese haiku is defined as a poem of three lines with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line  English poets tend to ignore this fact  Disregarding syllable count, they generally call any three-line English poem with a haiku feel a haiku
This demonstrates that English poets have little respect for foreign traditions, even those from which some of their own poetry derives
relies on stereotypes instead of presenting evidence