tyciol said:What is the non-white term? Have seen black anime fans (TLM) with these attitudes. Are Japanese-Americans allowed to hold those views without scorn?
This sounds very all-or-nothing. I don't think every single aspect of Japan is better and there are some great western comics and toons I like more than some Japanese ones but as a whole I can still say I like the sum of fiction they are producing more and the overall culture they have fostered (present v present) more.
The whole wanting to live there thing seems to ignore not knowing the language or thinking we could tolerate their long work hours. There is no specific term for black weeaboo, as far as I remember. And Japanese-American will be just "otaku" then (which, as you probably knew, holds the same, if not even stronger, negative meaning in Japan).
That's the thing, "weeaboo" term describing an extreme manifestation, that is rare case in reality. It's just that said manifestation is so weird (amusing, stupid, whatever) that it's calling for it's own name. Now it's used universally and mostly in exaggerating, humorous or insulting manner, not in the strict initial meaning. I even seen a couple of instances when it's been used in "rabid fan of specific country culture" meaning (for example, one comix fan write in his own blog "So I'll be a bit of weeaboo here for some time, 'mkay?", meaning something like "Prepare yourself, my dear friends/readers, here I'm starting to shamelessly babble about American comix like a totally obsessed fan").
That's just a desire. And you'll be surprised to know how stupid some adults (not touching kids & teens here for obvious reasons) can be. I've read an article on some gaming portal about living in Japan. You following? It was not a blog, not a traveling diary. It was written not by a naive teenager. It was written by someone who's at least semi-professional journalist (it's his work, at least for now, not just free-time hobby), someone who, you'd expect, know at least a bit more about how things happens in Japan (gaming industry, remember?) than some average country Joe. And yet all said article literally consisted of nothing but whiny bitching about local 1OO% pure Japanese cultural things. Things that are well-known for decades and been countless times described in myriads of articles, letters and whatnot, many of which are freely reachable via almighty Internet. So yes, said supposedly grown-up individual moved to live & work in Japan without any sufficient knowledge about it's culture. (Honestly, that was one & only instance when I wanted to call someone "hipster" in strictly negative way.)
SigOpram said:I'm still stuck at processing on how "Loli" and "Hate Speech" can exist in the same phrase. Loli can give a hate speech, for example, about "dirty pedophiles" (if you understand what I'm referencing here). |