[ SECRET POST #4447 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4447 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil games]


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03.
[The Big Family Cooking Showdown]


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04.
[C. B. Cebulski]


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05.
[Vikings]


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06.
[Misfits (Season 2)]


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07.
[The Umbrella Academy]


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08.
[Splatoon 2]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 46 secrets from Secret Submission Post #637.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not defending him but Kazuo Ishiguro wrote stuff about Japan and then later said he’d made it up as he hadn’t been there since he was five. He got the Nobel prize recently. Interesting how much your looks/heritage affect opinions.

[(Anonymous)]

did he lie about it or present himself as something he's not

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but if he represented himself as knowledgeable in Japanese culture and then made stuff up, yes?

[(Anonymous)]

first of all, he's a novelist

[(Anonymous)]

And most novelists do research about things they're unfamiliar with? I mean, if he did research to support the stuff he didn't remember as a child, then that's cool.

Your argument is dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

And so are you.

Re: Your argument is dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

Then we should have no issue with the secret-about-person doing what they did. After all, they're a novelist!

Re: Your argument is dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

It could only be a relevant comparison if Ishiguri held himself out as having more knowledge about Japan or Japanese culture than he actually did, or if he misrepresented the source of that knowledge.

And even then, it would be a slightly different situation in that the actual relationship to Japanese identity would be very different between the two cases. But nobody has even gone so far as to establish that he misrepresented himself.

Re: Your argument is dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

You sound white.

Re: Your argument is dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

That's racist.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, he was there the first five years of his life and so does have some memory of it. His first novel was about a woman who had moved from Japan to England with some of it being about her memories of Japan as a young woman. His second is set in a Japan before he was born (he was born in 1954, the book ends in 1950). And since they are both fiction, I'm not sure how much it matters that he thought of it this way: "I grew up with a very strong image in my head of this other country, a very important other country to which I had a strong emotional tie… In England I was all the time building up this picture in my head, an imaginary Japan."

[(Anonymous)]

You're talking about a Japanese man writing stuff about Japan. Even if he doesn't remember much of Japan, he is Japanese.

You seriously don't think this situation is different from a white man pretending to be Japanese for ~POC privelege~?

[(Anonymous)]

He’s Japanese in looks only. Not defending either person, both shitty in my opinion.