[ SECRET POST #1990 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1990 ⌋

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

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02.
[Calvin and Hobbes]


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03.
[Golden Sun]


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04.
[Downton Abbey]


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05.
[Beyond: Two Souls]


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06.
[Veep]


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[John Cooper Clarke]


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08.
[Kristen Stewart]


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09.
[A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones]


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10.
[The Social Network]


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11.
[Ray Bradbury]


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12.
[Protomen]


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13.
[Hamish & Andy]


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14.
[Falling Skies]


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15.
[Hetalia]


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16.
[Legend of Korra]


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[Dragon Age: Origins]


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18.
[Minecraft]


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19.
[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable]


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[Avengers]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 025 secrets from Secret Submission Post #284.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[ariakas]

Lawl I too am getting my masters' degree in the human and social sciences, I have read Benedict Anderson, I know what you mean.

I just don't see how that applies to someone who wasn't born there, nor were their parents born there, nor were they raised to identify with the cultural or historical trappings of the nation in question.

Post-WWII citizens of what was formerly Prussia, displaced or otherwise, and their children? Absolutely.

American kid who first learned about Prussia from a children's cartoon show, has never been there, and knows nothing about the culture or history save what they read on Wikipedia, whether they have Prussian ancestry or not? I don't think that applies.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, I'll agree with you that OPs friend might be a little stranger in this regard, but that's not what you asked in your original comment. Unless you meant to be hyperbolic about things, but it's not possible to tell that from what you said.

[ariakas]

I thought the context of the secret would make the context of my comment obvious, but you're right, of course.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I'm First Nations, and I have friends and relatives who identify as citizens of Turtle Island (i.e. of the North America that existed prior to the European conquering). Which isn't my own view, but I respect it and understand where it's coming from. But I've also seen First Nations fetishists from Germany profess that they consider themselves spiritual citizens of Turtle Island. Which gets nothing from me but an eye-roll and fierce desire to slap someone upside the head.

[the_glow_worm]

I just witnessed a white girl on tumblr who claims to be a "transethnic" Korean last night, so I feel your pain.

[(Anonymous)]

what the ever loving fuck?

[fuchsiascreams]

..wow.

[(Anonymous)]

First Nation fetishists... spiritual citizens of Turtle Island

recoiling in fright

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I didn't even know this was a thing until I joined a university department that attracted Europeans studying FN languages, but there was a very popular westerns author in Germany called Karl May, and many of his fans "cosplay" as Indians and even put together Ren-Faire camps where they go to play Indian for a weekend. Some of the people who were into it enough to make it an academic career and come to North America were...off-putting to say the least.