Are you sick of people always wanting everything to be Japanese?

Question

People are always wanting to mix Japanese into everything (especially anime fans). It just gets on my nerves because people are always like, "Japanese people have this, how come America doesn't have this," etc.

Answer 1

Not really, I think I find it a little interesting if you ask me. At least we have one Asian type that everyone is into the likes of. It's better than getting those stupid stereotypes about Asians. The worst part about that is some other nationality talks about your background. But then if you say a word to them about their background and that they forbid of they go crazy. However, it's all good because by that time I usually knock them the **** out.!

Answer 2

Take it easy and let them do as they want. It's not unusual that people dream something what they wish as far as they never commit criminal.

Being sick or tired to Japan Otaku itself is kind of wasting time.

Answer 3

I feel the same way as Ashley, I plan to double major in Japanese and International Business and I feel like the otaku can give us a bad reputation for either being incredibly nerdy or incredibly obsessed. I have a bunch of friends like this that I really like, but I think if you really like Japan, take a trip there and see if you still like it. Turning America into a pseudo-Japan would not only be ridiculous (it would probably only revolve around stereotypical American-Japanese things, like sushi and anime, while skipping the history, art, music, etc. that Japan is really all about).

There are just too many people that think living in Japan is a dreamworld. I think (and hope) this whole thing will fade out of pop culture soon enough, so the people who really love Japan will be the only ones left.

Answer 4

At my university we had a few Japanophiles and it got so bad that at one point the few of us who weren't gigantic nerds wouldn't tell people right away that we were East Asian Studies Majors on the off-chance that they were going to think we were like "those people." I never prescribed to that (people are going to think whatever about you and I don't want to be friends with someone who jumps to conclusions anyway) but it was a definite annoyance to see these people tarnishing my name and worse--in such a state of denial it was kind of painful.

However, just because you're an anime fan doesn't mean you'll act that way. Most of us in the program liked to get together to watch anime or j-drama for entertainment and practice and it didn't become a dominating feature of how we defined Japanese culture. The prevalence of crows and electric lines in the city? more or less yes. The punks who terrorize the schools? come to my visit school from last year... The geisha and ninjas? only on primetime TV with the exception that there is a ninja class being offered in Nagano city and very rarely seen in Kyoto and Tokyo... any more examples and I'd be glad to give you a perspective on it.

Luckily a few of them went off on their study abroad trips the next year and most of them came back changed for the better once they realized that Japan is an actual country and not a land of milk and honey and anime babes.

Now about Japanese people having something and not us... I'm not really sure what you could be referring to besides food. I love macha, udon, GOOD ramen, GOOD sushi (I lived in Ohio before), Crunky candy, and the list goes on but I can crave it when I'm back in America. HOWEVER, while I'm here I crave real Mexican food, macaroni and cheese which doesn't cost $3-4 a box, pizza, and non-spicy mustard (although maybe we just have bad luck in the store).

Answer 5

Leave them alone. lol.

Answer 6

YES .. like im in this jpnese international school ...

and almost evrybody in my class is either jpnese or half of it

it bugs me coz i cant find anyone PURE NATURAL of some other race !! lol

Answer 7

Nope,

Because Japan's awesome !

Answer 8

There isn't much I miss from my time living in Japan. The best thing about Japan was ice cold green tea in a vending machine, and we have that in the States now...LOL

Answer 9

Sorry I have not experienced that myself. Though I do miss some things I had in Japan that I can't find here in the U.S. and when I go to Japan I do miss some things that I can't buy there. I figure most people don't care about that though so I keep it to myself.

Answer 10

Huh?

Everything to be Japanese?

No way.

I don't expect my wine to be Japanese but Chilean, German or French.

And so on.

What I do expect to be Japanese is Japanese sake and shochu.

Answer 11

I must have missed all these wapanese/weabo/whatever stuff that has been apparently sweeping the US as I keep seeing references to this cultural phenomenom cropping up on various internet sites. Did Gwen Stanfani or Naruto set this off?

Sure there are some convenient things here but there's also inconvienances as well - like wireless availability, key money, noisy store jingles filling the streets, and of course random ninja fights and godzilla attacks.