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Author Topic: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese  (Read 27619 times)

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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #90 on: June 11, 2010, 03:08:42 pm »

japanophiles > anglophiles > dudes obsessed with nazi germany > medieval larpers

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« Reply #91 on: June 11, 2010, 03:14:41 pm »

Hail Britannia >:(
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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #92 on: June 11, 2010, 03:18:30 pm »

japanophiles > anglophiles > dudes obsessed with nazi germany > medieval larpers

i'd invert that, really

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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #93 on: June 11, 2010, 03:20:01 pm »


anglophiles > dudes obsessed with nazi germany > japanophiles > medieval larpers
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« Reply #94 on: June 11, 2010, 03:21:53 pm »

japanophiles > anglophiles = dudes obsessed with nazi germany > medieval larpers

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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #95 on: June 11, 2010, 03:23:13 pm »

England is more awesome than Japan in every possible way!
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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #96 on: June 11, 2010, 03:24:18 pm »

it's more of a question of rather you prefer whites or asians really since they're both funny little xenophobic island nations

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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #97 on: June 11, 2010, 03:27:43 pm »

Has BNP won any elections while I wasn't looking?
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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #98 on: June 11, 2010, 03:32:21 pm »

are you saying britain loves immigrants

take me to the imaginary britain that isn't ever racist or xenophobic


like japan

(lol you're the same get used to it)

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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #99 on: June 11, 2010, 03:40:57 pm »

People like things that are different or exotic.

At first I thought it was just a white guy attracted to asian women thing. Then I realized certain white women also get that attraction to asian males, just as some asians do to whites. It was a strange experience for me figuring that out. (It's why I don't go to animecons anymore- I had all these weeaboos and underage bisexuals attempting to drag me into their hotel rooms and buddha-only-knows what STDs they had)

I mean, hell, as a language French is super sexy to me and even though I don't have much use for it I'm learning it this summer. I suppose it's always applicable in melting women. They seem to love that stuff more than I do.

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« Reply #100 on: June 11, 2010, 03:44:48 pm »

Actually, I'm Bosnian. I don't really know how people over her would respond to immigration, since we don't get much of it.

Anyway, when I was in London it seemed fairly multicultural, dunno if it's indicative of the rest of UK.
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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #101 on: June 11, 2010, 03:54:04 pm »

UK's a pretty big place. They also have their chavs and racist pricks, same as anywhere else in the world. Thankfully they don't make too much of a vocal majority depending on where you live.

I'd argue certain parts of the southern US are the worse, because you have people who are otherwise mostly-educated and nice people who are still racist. That was my experience when I was there.

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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #102 on: June 11, 2010, 04:12:14 pm »

Most of my DnD group are horrific weaboos. There's only really me (currently I'm the DM) and our wizard who aren't A: obsessed with Japan and B: ranging from mildly odd to full-on skin-crawling unwashed weirdness.

You can never tell if you're a massive deviant, though. If everybody else seems to be a loser except for you...
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Re: I Don't Understand The Obsession With The Japanese
« Reply #103 on: June 11, 2010, 04:42:06 pm »

People like things that are different or exotic.

That's part of it, but I think modern Orientalism is also rooted in social alienation.
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« Reply #104 on: June 11, 2010, 04:48:22 pm »

There isn't really a Japan craze - it's just an illusion.

Lots of us are unknowingly weaboos for America, Canada, England, etc but our cultures are so damn similar we don't even realize we're doing it.  If you're American and you're obsessed with low brow comedy and mary jane, there's a good chance all of your favorite humor styles and comedians are from a Canadian cultural heritage.  If you're British and you're all about the hip hop scene, you're being wamerican.

Japan just stands out more because their culture is so different, and because of all the tentacles and bright colors.
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