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fandomsecrets2007-10-17 04:00 pm
shahni.livejournal.com) wrote in fandomsecrets2007-10-17 04:00 pm
[ SECRET POST #285 ]
⌈ Secret Post #285 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
- Because it broke my brain, a Death Note - Sailor Moon Second OP parody. @_@
Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 82 secrets from Secret Submission Post #041.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!fandom,[1] subjective statement, [1] not!secret, [1] [2] personal attacks [ wtf they're for the same RP, go to their COMPLAINTS thread or something! Or at least don't SHOW who it is =-=;], 0 repeat
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, October 18th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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Seriously, it gets downright ridiculous, especially if we consider that Japan, and it's artists mimic a lot of things about our side of the world, but the minute someone in the west mimics something from Japan, here come the weaboo cries. >_>
I mean seriously, I know a Japanese singer (really talented young lady too), who recently got a tan, hair dye, and eye surgery, and now looks quite a bit like an asianified (lolz unexisting word) of Beyonce (who she has stated to be one of her favorite singers), and yet, do we see "Americanophile!" cries? Nooooo, because she looks more american, so it's teh coolness...
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But yeah, it's really getting annoyed. Honestly, the way I see it, the Japanese themselves are the only people who even have a legitimate complaint against even "true weeaboo," since it's their culture that's being abused or misused.
While the rest of us can complain about the behaviors (e.g. fanbrat Japanese, believing that nothing good can come out of America at all, blah blah blah) when they get too extreme, and while we all SHOULD work to educate people about the reality of Japan and Japanese culture, it's really like a flashing red "ethnocentric bigot" sign when someone starts going off on someone else solely to harsh their squee since their squee is over something viewed to be "foreign" or "unreal like MY unreality."
It's my opinion that the entire "weeaboo problem" is very much overblown and self-perpetuating. Yes, everyone's probably had an encounter with someone they might view as overenthusiastic or uninformed.
Yet, by lowering the bar for "weeaboo" to "likes anything Japanese" or even to "wants to be Japanese," we've successfully reassigned an entire class of people consisting of everything from the worst offensive posers to sane, normal people who simply like another nation's pop culture and societal aspects more than their own to the same label, which serves to make the posers worse AND add the only people who might get through to the posers that they ARE being offensive to the people who should be written off.
And you have an excellent point. So much of both our nations' cultures borrow from each other (e.g. mangaka inspired by Disney and DC and Marvel and indie comics, rock stars who admire Western stars as diverse as Beyonce to Marilyn Manson, American comic writers inspired by mangaka and American musicians who've found inspiration in visual kei. . .) it's like a circle, and why can't we celebrate that our cultures are so intertwined?
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