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It's a little bit harder for people to not tell the difference if you speak Japanese fluently, I'm guessing you do? Very nice kimono btw.
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So I guess this makes WAIF's attempt at "Can you really not tell she's not Japanese?" all the more silly and obvious.
I'll admit it doesn't help that I'm a bit of a goddamn weeaboo (compared to your average whitey, I guess), but still...!
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I don't speak Japanese fluently at all. I have extremely limited vocabulary but I have a good accent and most of my interactions with Japanese people who don't know I'm American are in situations like restaurants, cabs, etc.
Thanks! A nice old lady picked it out for me. It's a yukata (casual summer kimono type thing). I do prefer the Korean traditional dress (hanbok) though, perhaps not entirely unrelated to racial pride
Thanks! A nice old lady picked it out for me. It's a yukata (casual summer kimono type thing). I do prefer the Korean traditional dress (hanbok) though, perhaps not entirely unrelated to racial pride
damnromulans
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Are you a NARUTARD?! My 21st birthday party theme was "Dominatrixes and Narutards" but the dress code was "deviant subcultural"
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Oh fuck no. The closest I get to liking retarded shonen is Berserk, but Berserk is legitimately awesome.
I do like a lot of anime and manga, yeah, but. Er. I'm not the sort who thinks it's cool to be an otaku, hikkikomori, etc. I just enjoy that stuff, same as I enjoy film, comics, and so on. I also have an appreciation for how it all fits into cultural and historical contexts, I'm into stuff like superflat, and I'm basically just interested in cultural exchange in general...
Today I read How to Suicide by Shintaro Kago.
damnromulans
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Does anyone think it's cool to be a hikkikomori?
You are far more weeaboo than I am, the only anime I've seen is "Interstella 5555" which hardly counts.
You should work in Japan.
You are far more weeaboo than I am, the only anime I've seen is "Interstella 5555" which hardly counts.
You should work in Japan.
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damnromulans
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You obviously haven't been exposed to much. Nothing boring or pretentious about tentacle porn and eyelid surgery, not to mention beating up Falun Gong followers and Hinduism
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There are kids (shut-ins, I should say) who have seen something like Welcome to the NHK and then decide that "hikkikomori" and "NEET" are things they can relate to, yes. Anime fandom is full of disturbing things.
I'm in school right now, and kind of leaning toward something in journalism perhaps focusing on these interests, among others. So who knows where I may end up, but going abroad some day would be awesome.
I'm in school right now, and kind of leaning toward something in journalism perhaps focusing on these interests, among others. So who knows where I may end up, but going abroad some day would be awesome.
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I find 99% of asian culture boring and/or pretentious. The other 1% is Kung Fu
What about sushi?
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Yeah, they're basically the same thing.
I guess this is pretty much why a lot of people don't want to talk about having an interest in this sort of thing at all there's all this weeaboo stigma caused by severely obsessive fans. I'm pretty into it, but I'm a functional human being with plenty of other interests, y'know? This is actually part of what I'd like to study how it seems like anime fandom is still creating a generation of lazy shut-ins, even in America... and in a way especially in America, because kids who can't identify with their own culture find something unique and weird and they become obsessed. I guess it's the downside of this particular cultural exchange I mentioned. There's a lot of interesting art out there that satirizes this sort of behavior, though...
And I thought pretty much everybody had seen at least some Miyazaki/Ghibli.
Couple of pages from How to Suicide:
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That would be pretty interesting, if you could just walk up behind someone and unzip their skin and all their shit would fall out.
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Not really, I can tell the difference. Chinese and Japanese are easy to tell apart; Koreans are sort of in the middle and can be a little tricky. I can't tell with all the little shitty countries like Laos and Cambodia, but I can tell they're not Japanese.
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