That wikipage on wapaneses really made med laugh
. Anyways about weabos, man i dunno where to start with them. It's amazing though how popular the japanese culture has become over these past few years, especially in my country, and especially on the internet. And that wikipage pretty much nailed it !
Here's something i thought of when reading about weabos and such and i thought might share that experience with y'all. I once saw this poster that said some people were going to start a club of some sorts where people would play video games every tuesday evening, and it was for free! So i thought to myself "sure wth, it'll be fun kicking some peoples butt on video games", so i went there and had a pretty fun time. Thankfully though i brought my friend with me since most people there were....hmmm...how should i put this in a nice way.....reeeally socially inexperienced. But wth i wasn't going to hold that against them or anything. (i know this story might seem of but just bear out with me)
Anyways, after we're done playing they say that they've also got like an animé movie night thingie aswell and asked if me and my friend wanted to join them. Since i do watch one piece, and read fullmetal alchemist and gto i thought it sounded kinda fun. So i went and to my surprise there were actually quite a few people there, many which were japanese. We watched the movie (which was wack but still kinda good) and afterwards me and my friend started talking with some of the japanese exchange students. Me and my friend mentioned the extremely increased interest in japanese culture and then one of the other dudes told us "how japan was", even though he'd never been there. And man o man did he get his bubble burst
The japanese exchange students told us the image people had of that japan was really animé/manga fixated, and that people believe cosplay is something most japanese do, or some other thing the dude mentioned of some gaming groups, where people meet and do nothing but play video-games all night (pretty much what we did but all day and always), well was to say the least very wrong. The people that are in those video game groups, or did do alot of cosplay, or have crazy purple hair and stuff were a really small minority of people and that most people stop reading manga and stuff at about 14-16 year of age.
And even though it was really funny to hear about how it really was, it was still kinda sad in a way. I mean sure i really like one piece and fullmetal alchemist, but i like them cuz they're good and not cuz they're japanese. But the issue here is that many people probably become extremely narow minded and well, miss out on many other things which are great but still "outside of japan".
People need to start looking other ways aswell and find beauty in other things, like i love japanese culture, but i also love indian culture, french culture, middle-eastern culture and believe it or not but even american culture
I find them all very fascinating!
Oh and sorry for the serious post on a testing area topic, just wanted to say what was on my mind
