[ SECRET POST #2622 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2622 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 076 secrets from Secret Submission Post #375.
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)]

Hmmm. No fan of SJWs here, but somehow I'm getting an unpleasant vibe of "Well I know Japanese culture" from your secret. Almost as though you're trying to say, "Don't you talk about this stuff unless you can talk about it like me."

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it could be that.

But, on the other hand, OP could actually know Japanese culture very well. There are a few people on F!S who have either lived long-term in Japan or are currently living there.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't doubt OP's knowledge (or their apparent confidence in it), just their possible attitude about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Or *gasp* are actually Japanese!

[(Anonymous)]

On the Internet? A likely story. *snerk*

[(Anonymous)]

I know. It's, like, totally impossible that there are actual Japanese people on the internet. Everyone knows Japan is a totally technophobic country, almost nobody there would even dream of owning a device for going online in some way.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, yes, you're most definitely a Japanese schoolgirl living in Shinjuku and you watch anime every day and know all these words. It's amazing, really, that you'd deign to grace the lowly western fandom with your divine presence.

Man, Japanese Online must be the anime fandom's equivalent of a G.I.R.L.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

No, you don't get it. What the other anon is talking trying to say isn't that there aren't any Japanese people using the Internet. It's that if a person claiming to be Japanese pops up in an English speaking fandom (especially the English speaking fandom of an anime), there is a better than likely chance that person is anything but Japanese.

[(Anonymous)]

So you were one of those people who ran off that poor girl, weren't you?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, I do get it. I just think it's pretty damn stupid to actually think that Japanese people never venture outside of "Japanese spaces" on the internet. Especially tumblr has a lot of Japanese people by now, and why shouldn't they track the tags that are relevant to their interests there as well? Also, not every single Japanese person still lives in Japan. A lot of them have fandom friends in other countries as well.

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is, compared to other countries, Japanese people have very low English ability - and that's textbook English, not even slang Internet meme language used online. Japan does have a huge Internet community, but with super popular Japanese websites, I'd wager it is very unusual for a Japanese person to try to navigate, say, fandom!secrets. The language barrier is really thick, and they produce enough "fandom" things in their own language.

You might get Westerners of Japanese descent, of course. But "real" Japanese people? If, in fandom, someone claimed they were Japanese (from Japan), I'd assume it was a troll.

[(Anonymous)]

You might want to site your sources.

[(Anonymous)]

http://thediplomat.com/2011/05/why-english-is-tough-in-japan/

"...there's TOEFL score data from 2004-2005, which placed Japan second to last in Asia in terms of English language skills with 191 points—only one point higher than North Korea."

Japan has notoriously bad English communication, despite mandatory English classes.

[(Anonymous)]

Appreciated.

[(Anonymous)]

As long as Japanese culture continues to be so heavily fetishized and anime fandom filled with so many desperate wannabes, nothing short of a background check is going to convince anyone a person trying to win an argument like "Why I get to talk about feminism in Japan and you don't" is actually Japanese. Them's the breaks.

[takaraikarin]

Or they're of mixed heritage. I know a few people like that. One of them half-Filipino and one half-Korean.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Oh yes. I just haven't yet met anyone here who's Japanese, so I didn't want to make that assumption. In hindsight, it probably wouldn't have been untoward to just mention the possibility.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, sorry, no, I didn't want to seem bitchy or anything. It was more a reaction to the whole "there are no Japanese people on the internet" thing than to your comment X'D

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Ah. I didn't even know that was a thing! How odd. o.O

[(Anonymous)]

It is. Just look at the comments above - everyone who claims to be Japanese on the internet - in the English speaking part of an anime fandom no less - can't possibly ~really~ be Japanese and must be a faker weeaboo kid!