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fandomsecrets2013-01-30 06:40 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-01-30 06:40 pm
[ SECRET POST #2220 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2220 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Sherlock, The Hobbit, Doctor Who]
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[Hotel Transylvania]
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[Skyfall]
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[Love Actually]
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[The Walking Dead]
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[Downton Abbey]
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[Magi]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #317.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - 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.
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wtf DW y u mess with my HTML?Kind of what the anon replying to fenm said. It's basically weeaboos applied to Britain instead of Japan.
Think of the crazy anime fans who make most or all of their assumptions about Japan and Japanese cultures from the popular exported Japanese media like manga and anime. They like their idea of Japan rather than the actual Japan, and obsess over this idea of Japan. Their idealistic version of Japan is flawless, and any flaws pointed out to them are swept aside as irrelevant or a nice "exotic" problem that's a "nice change" from their own problems they grew up with in their own culture.
I used to think weeaboos were a myth, and then I found my high school's anime club and alternated between fighting down tears and laughter at a lot of their perceptions of Japanese culture. I ended up laughing when someone actually talked about how ~inclusive~ Japan is and offending quite a few people in the process, despite an actual Japanese person there agreeing with me.
Once upon a time, would've said there isn't anyone who fetishizes Britain to that degree, but I've recently met a teenage girl - daughter of a family friend - who is, in fact, that obsessed with Britain and everything about it, to the extent that when my mother and I gave her a gift blanket, she squealed loud enough to make my ears hurt over the old shopping bag we gave it to her in because it happened to have a British flag design on it. Paints her nails with that, has all sorts of "If I had a British accent..." and "I ♥ London..." type shirts and accessories, etc - it's pretty ridiculous. That said, she didn't know until I recently told her that Britain is technically made up of four nations, which I mentioned while explaining a bit about the British flag and why she can't use "British" and "English" interchangeably. Further discussion reveals how little she really knows about Britain despite her obsessing over it, and while it might be a bit cruel of me, I have spent a lot of time over the last few weeks bursting quite a few of her bubbles by explaining why certain things about Britain suck, or how something she's seen a lot in the movies/TV isn't actually a 'thing' there (yes, there are racists in Britain, no, not everyone treats afternoon tea as a religion). I kind of want to take her to a British imports store just to watch her get confused as hell by everything in it...
While she's a bit of an extreme example (this girl is similarly obsessive over One Direction and, while a very nice person, is kind of a spoiled brat), there are a lot of people who tend to act in the same vein. You may or may not have heard something like "I'm so British!" by non-Brits while they say/do something "British-y", that's a big clue right there.
That said, in my experience there aren't that many people who do that within these fandoms. Americans who are fans of British shows and movies seem to be pretty reasonable about British culture, even if only because they had to research it for writing fic or something. (But then most of the big fandoms' crazies went over to Tumblr and I only use Tumblr peripherally, so I might just be missing them entirely, who knows).
I would like to maybe go visit Britain or even live there for a little while. But then I say this about a lot of countries and while I may or may not be open to the idea of emigrating one day, I would never consider myself "British in all but legal nationality" (which is also another one I've heard, at least about Japan.)
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Go show her the "Muslamic Ray Guns" video.
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You've just made my day ^__^
(and for the record, I'm English)