On Wapanese

I hate many things, but there is one thing I hate above all else: Wapanese. Even Goths are better than Wapanese and that is saying a lot (no offense to anyone who actually is a Goth, you are better than the Wapanese at least). Even those North Koreans who think Kim Jong-Il is so great don't irritate me as much as Wapanese.

This board and many others are filled with people who idolize Japan as though it were a holy place (and of course they have an analog to the hajj). They download torrents of Japanese commercials! They watch Japanese television and go on about great it is that Japan has the most advanced technology in the world (don't you just want to smack them with a Unabomber's Manifesto?)

However, they gloss over the real Japan, the Japan where women and foreigners are treated terribly and hyperreality engulfs all. Japan, as pointed out in another thread, is the most artificial culture in existance. Wapanese, for some reason, seem ashamed of our "primitive" culture where things are still real.

In short, Wapanese are fooling themselves and living in inauthenticity. If they are so ashamed of US culture (I don't really blame them), they should revolt against it, not look for another culture to obsess on.

~~~Fafemoapiitio te 'oopiitiii faefoootiiiaaiii.~~~

Obsessing over anything is never a healthy thing.

I'm sure anyone who has taken a Japanese 101 (or JPN I in high school) class has had the unfortunate experience of having to deal with Wapanese. It's pretty funny that as you continue the program, the numbers keep getting cut in half, as the Wapanese are waded out. Why?? Because they are only in it to get their fill of the artificial fanhood of a place and culture that they don't understand, which actually is what attracts them. However, once they realize the structure and the difficulty of having to actually become a part of that culture, they suddenly vanish.

Fandom will always happen and it's just something you have to ignore. It's sad though because then the stereotypes also carry on to people who have nothing to do with this subculture of "Japanicized Americans". (I want to make clear: what I mean by this is, that the Wapanese actually don't care about the culture or the people or the nation at all, simply the glitter.)

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I'd like to add one more note. It's the same idolization of American culture in Japan. Everything, from American style of art and animation, to restaurants, culture and language.