The Waisian Sensation.

[Sock Full of Boiled Dimes]

You know...

I actually thought the who Waisian thing was a myth. No really I did. I thought that a white person pretending to be asian is just silly. Sure they might like anime and worship Japan, but they can't truly think "I am Asian".

*sigh*

So I sit down and eat next to a table of some nerds who obviously need some growing up to do. They are college guys playing 4-way-Magic in the middle of a campus with me thinking "This is just silly...YOU IDIOT YOU SHOULD OF TAPPED THAT COLORLESS LAND!"

... anyway.

A couple guys not playing are reading Shonen Jump(heh) and I kid you not one of the guys brings out a sheet of Japanese words he printed out on the internet. They started to practice how to say "cool" in japanese. One guy was wearing a, I kid you not, pink Sailor Moon shirt while the other was blathering about how Naruto is cooler than Full Metal Alchamist (anything is cooler than FMA). I start to gag on my lunch as they talk about how Japan culture is so cool because they are so sexually open.

Actually, change gag to snort because I was starting to laugh so hard.

I can't tell you exact details of the conversation, but they treated Japan as if it was the Holy Land and that one day they will pilgramage there. I could of swore one guy said something about Buhddah.

I'd love to go to Japan someday and broden my horizons. I like anime and watch it ocassionally. I can't speak Japanese and therefor am not even going to try. I would however love to take a trip to Japan with these guys just to see what kind of culture shock they would be in for and then rub it in their faces when they want to go home because no Japanese girl wants to have sex with some guy who pretends to know who you are.

[Ozero]

y'know... i think the 'fantasy japan' is different for everyone.... anyway, I'm happy to leave fantasy japan in a little corner of my head, quarantined from the rest of my brain, trying to 'feel the truth' of japan...

if that makes any bit of sense...

[FOBulous]

I'd say there's a little Japanophile in all of us, or else we wouldn't be here. It all depends on how realistic you are about things. Where you think Japan is a nice place, and then you go about your day. Or if you hope to some day move to Japan and tenticle rape some girl... I'm sure there's a gray area somewhere inbetween. I just can't think of any examples right now...

[Ozero]

you mean i had those tentacles grafted on for NOTHING???

[Kusoyaro]

Yea, I have this imagined perception of certain parts of japan (ie Kyoto) that tend to bleed together with the soft chocolate warmth of embellished memory, and leads me to hope for tranquility. In those lush moss gardens, oh man, just sitting there for ever, eating tofu and shit, that would rock harder than conjugal visitation day in a state pen.

ps- FMA is awesome, dickweed!!! I challenge you to a duel, good sir!

[Citizen]

What we should do is gather up all the American dipshits who think that Japan is what they see on Cartoon Network (or wherever they get their stereotypes from) and all the Japanese dipshit who think that America is what they see on MTV (or whatever) and put them in once place together.

It'd be fun to see how long it would take them to kill each other. Because I know that I'd be pissed if some Japanese kid tried to talk to me like I was cliché, gimmicky, little MTV stereotype.

In short, if you want to learn about another culture, actually learn about it. If you're just going to base your judgements on their TV shows and movies, shut the fuck up.

[Kusoyaro]

AMEN, Citizen.
Zen, that's what I was after.

[Lisa M]

Yeah, there are a few students here at my college who are like that.

Fortunately, we have Japanese Culture Club and Anime Club. There's very little crossover, and the Wapanese kids tend to stay in Anime Club.

[paul]

Naruto is KEWL!!!11!!
I love Naruto! when I grow up i gonna marry hiim! yea!

[FOBulous]

Yeah, there are a few students here at my college who are like that.

Fortunately, we have Japanese Culture Club and Anime Club. There's very little crossover, and the Wapanese kids tend to stay in Anime Club.

The waps... Haha... I haven't heard that term since I was in college.

[Shadowknight]

I start to gag on my lunch as they talk about how Japan culture is so cool because they are so sexually perverted .
Fixed your (or rather their) typo.

[Angelyne]

What we should do is gather up all the American dipshits who think that Japan is what they see on Cartoon Network (or wherever they get their stereotypes from) and all the Japanese dipshit who think that America is what they see on MTV (or whatever) and put them in once place together.

It'd be fun to see how long it would take them to kill each other. Because I know that I'd be pissed if some Japanese kid tried to talk to me like I was cliché, gimmicky, little MTV stereotype.

In short, if you want to learn about another culture, actually learn about it. If you're just going to base your judgements on their TV shows and movies, shut the fuck up.

I hope somebody turns this into a reality show. I'd actually watch :clap: :clap: :clap:

[Lisa M]

That would be an awesome reality show, but a very small niche audience.

[Angelyne]

Not with the right amount of marketing.

[Lisa M]

Or OMG get a bunch of Japanese girls who are all "American boys are all so cute! Every last one!" and a bunch of American guys who are all "All Japanese girls are cute and perfect!"

Get the most defective people with this mindset that one can find.

Make a dating show.

[tekkan]

Its weird.

I've never(Layovers dont count :) ) been to Japan and I imagine Japan as really crowded cities filled with yakuza and dirty business men. I dunno why.

I love anime.

Some J-pop is good.

I think the whole hentai thing has ruined Japan for me now. I think I've permenantly sterotyped every Japanese male over 20 as a pervert.

Oh well. ;)

[h2orowe]

OK.. I'll admit.. I'm pretty Wapanese, but I'm not thinking Japan is a holy land...

I HATE the fact, that our school has a Japanese club (-___-; I'm in it. Long story short, I just so I could change it into a respectable club, ended up becoming friends with the officers, and now they won't let me leave). PRACTICALLY every member in the club joined because of anime. I joined 'cuz I wanted to learn about the REAL culture -____-; but nooo we just have anime nerds in the club. We've done a language thing once.... but that was it....

The sad thing is ;___; I'm considered the cool kid of the club. Roar. I'm the only one who isn't like JAPENZORZ IN MY NOSORZ MAKES ME HAPPZORZ.

>>; I've tried to show a friend this site, and she was like NOOO I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW CORRUPTED JAPAN REALLY IS >_<;

[Lisa M]

This is why you should encourage the creation of an anime club, but have no involvement in it. The anime nerds will get their fix, and maybe start to leave you alone.

[FOBulous]

Well I guess, it's best not to burst their bubble. Let them believe what they want, just as long as it makes them happy. Besides, they'll probably stab you in the eye with a pocky for crushing their dreams...

[Mechs]

OK.. I'll admit.. I'm pretty Wapanese, but I'm not thinking Japan is a holy land...

I HATE the fact, that our school has a Japanese club (-___-; I'm in it. Long story short, I just so I could change it into a respectable club, ended up becoming friends with the officers, and now they won't let me leave). PRACTICALLY every member in the club joined because of anime. I joined 'cuz I wanted to learn about the REAL culture -____-; but nooo we just have anime nerds in the club. We've done a language thing once.... but that was it....

The sad thing is ;___; I'm considered the cool kid of the club. Roar. I'm the only one who isn't like JAPENZORZ IN MY NOSORZ MAKES ME HAPPZORZ.

>>; I've tried to show a friend this site, and she was like NOOO I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW CORRUPTED JAPAN REALLY IS >_<;

My school has an anime club too. I know a couple people in it and they seem pretty normal for the most part. Actually I've only talked to them about anime once. Other than that it was stuff on TV shows, news, etc. I think I'm going to go to a meeting of the club one of these days just to see what they do exacty :watson:.

[Lisa M]

I like it when Wapanese kids try to appear British to make themselves even super-cooler, so they say things like "Bloody hell" while wearing a DBZ t-shirt. It makes me laugh on the inside.

[Hoopla!!]

I like it when Wapanese kids try to appear British to make themselves even super-cooler, so they say things like "Bloody hell" while wearing a DBZ t-shirt. It makes me laugh on the inside.
Laugh? It makes you laugh?
Every time I see things like that, I die a little inside.

[Angelyne]

I went to my university's anime club once. I had to leave early, and one of the officers felt the need to ask for my number and followed me to my dorm when I didn't give it to him. Considering I had known him for a grand total of five minutes before this happened, it was a bit creepy.

I stopped going after that.

[Lisa M]

Oh, I die, too. But I'm at the point where I can also laugh.

[Lisa M]

I went to my university's anime club once. I had to leave early, and one of the officer's felt the need to ask for my number and follow me to my dorm when I didn't give it to him. Considering I had known him for a grand total of five minutes before this happened, it was a bit creepy.

I stopped going after that.

Yeah, I've met a lot of anime nerds who think that since you've heard of anime you are all of a sudden ZOMG BESTEST FIRENDS!!!!11

::gag::

[MNJetter]

My university's anime club wasn't a club in its own right, rather it was written into the Gaming Club's manifest. So you had people interested in video games, board games, chess checkers, HALO-obsessed jocks, and RPGers all mixed in with the anime nerds. I don't know if that's the reason, but for some reason my university's anime fans seemed to be lacking the waisian/wapanese-ish quality of most. They liked anime for anime's sake, and aside from a mild interest in the music of certain shows, most of us more or less ignored Japan itself. And were duly frightened when we took a club trip to an anime convention once and saw stereotypical fandom in all its glory.
Except for me and one other person - we like Japan - but that's because we were language nerds, and after discovering what a glorious challenge the Japanese language is, we couldn't leave it alone. Heh.