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My girlfriend played in a jrock band and she has told me stories about white japanophiles and assorted Chinese fellows that were so enamored with Japanese things that they went through so much effort to try to look "Japanese" and make up fake Japanese names for themselves and try to cook up ridiculous stories about how they are ethnically Japanese in some vague way when they obviously weren't.
She's broken away from these people because she found them intolerable, but apparently near the end of her relationship with these people the whole kpop wave began to crash and now people were trying to pretend they were Korean.
I will never ever understand these kind of people.
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On October 20 2011 02:21 Snuggles wrote:LOL I thought weaboos only applied to weird non-asian people trying really hard to assimilate into Japanese culture. Actually since we're in this sort of topic what do you guys label non-Korean/Japanese Asians that try really hard to be a native to that particular culture? I don't know how you deal with that many people who act like that Hammurabi, but all my friends HATE it when that one particular guy goes on his usual Korean wannabe tirade- that's just one person, if there's more than one that I'd like to herd them all into a little group and isolate them from our group of friends. Eh, you just do your own thing and just keep away from them, and it's all good :p. At least a few of the kpop wanna-bes who are actually Korean know a bit about StarCraft, so that's cool . Still, I personally prefer "normal" "nerds" who like SC :p. I don't even like American pop, so why would I like jpop / kpop and want to hang out with people who worship and emulate it? :/
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On October 20 2011 02:16 zoLo wrote:I dunno if it is at a point to truly call him a disgrace since you didn't post what he thought about his own ethnicity. Does he like being Vietnamese? If not, then yeah, he is a disgrace in my eyes 
Well if you're Vietnamese and choose to try to be a Korean wannabe, that is a disgrace in my eyes. Going to Vietnam and meeting all my family has made me extremely proud to be Vietnamese. That does not mean I obnoxiously tell the world about it, but if I were asked about my heritage I'd be glad to elaborate on it. If someone were to mistaken me for a Korean or Japanese person, I would immediately correct them and tell them I was Vietnamese.
There have been many cases where people mistake me for being Korean or Japanese because of my lgiht skin and eyes. Fortunately I don't have the thin snake eyes people from those countries commonly have but apparently it must be popular to have larger Asian eyes in Korea and Japan (I don't understand that at all) so it can still be used against me when judging my ethnicity based on physical appearance. I find it somewhat hurtful to not be recognized as a Vietnamese looking person whenever I meet a distant relative =P.
I mean how can you not like being Vietnamese? We have the best goddamn noodles in the world! That's why my Viet Korean wannabe friend is a disgrace =_=
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whats so disgraceful about not being proud or giving a shit about your ethnicity anyway
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Hey I was born in USA not by choice and was assimilated into speaking English and know nothing about my heritage in public schools. Does that make me a white washed disgrace?
Shut the fuck up op and worry about your own life. People are people. You actually regress the human race by having an us vs them mentality. Fuck your Korean/azn pride. You can stick it up your ass.
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There really isn't a problem with being a big fan of something. It has always been my opinion that Korean music is generally rubbish compared to Japanese music (the only genre of music in Korea that generally seems okay is rap, whereas Japan has had a very vibrant music scene in almost everything on an international level in hip hop, drone metal, noise, post-rock, etc. etc. etc., and even moreso when it comes to composers) and I like a fair bit of Japanese cinema, but I don't ever try to pretend I'm not Korean even if I don't really hold any "loyalty" to Korea.
I just think there is something intrinsically wrong with trying to pretend that you are of a different culture. Your cultural identity is something that really cannot be separated from who you are, so whenever I see these people that pretend that they're Korean or Japanese or whatever, I feel like they are just pretending to be someone else and are in some kind of way unhappy or not proud of who they are, which is all just sad no matter how you put it.
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On October 20 2011 02:38 matiK23 wrote: Hey I was born in USA not by choice and was assimilated into speaking English and know nothing about my heritage in public schools. Does that make me a white washed disgrace?
Shut the fuck up op and worry about your own life. People are people. You actually regress the human race by having an us vs them mentality. Fuck your Korean/azn pride. You can stick it up your ass. He's not Korean and probably not even Asian, wat.
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I'm basically full-blooded Irish and I don't speak Gaelic. THE HORROR, THE HORROR.
If anyone asks me what nationality I am I generally say American.
Edit: Also people rate high schools? What the hell?
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I cant understand the obsession of some people , mainly the americans, with their so called "ethnicy" if I meet some guy on the internet who claims he is "german" because he has german grandparents or even only great grandparents but grew up in the USA, never spoke a german word, never saw germany for longer periods etc then I just cant take those people seriously.
And this applies to everyone who thinks he has to stereotype himself by putting himself into an "ethnicy box" just so he can appear like something special even though as a matter of fact neither will those people be recognized as "real" parts of that ethnicy by the people who actually live in the respective countries and neither is it even something to spend much thought on. You are what you make of yourself and not an accumulation of country stereotypes you hope to achieve by overemphasizing your heritage.
Be proud of what you achieved through your own power and effort being proud of something you think is an important part of yourself even though it is actually just a piece of rock which you were randomly born on like millions of other poeple doesnt make you special
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On October 20 2011 03:40 Skilledblob wrote: I cant understand the obsession of some people , mainly the americans, with their so called "ethnicy" if I meet some guy on the internet who claims he is "german" because he has german grandparents or even only great grandparents but grew up in the USA, never spoke a german word, never saw germany for longer periods etc then I just cant take those people seriously.
And this applies to everyone who thinks he has to stereotype himself by putting himself into an "ethnicy box" just so he can appear like something special even though as a matter of fact neither will those people be recognized as "real" parts of that ethnicy by the people who actually live in the respective countries and neither is it even something to spend much thought on. You are what you make of yourself and not an accumulation of country stereotypes you hope to achieve by overemphasizing your heritage.
Be proud of what you achieved through your own power and effort being proud of something you think is an important part of yourself even though it is actually just a piece of rock which you were randomly born on like millions of other poeple doesnt make you special You, sir, are a blob extremely skilled in logic! I like. I don't get that either. :S On the Internet and irl, what matters most imo is nationality/citizenship, and this is considering most of my heritage is quite recent in the US and I know it decently O_o.
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my coworkers name is kim, which is 金
his name means gold
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man, who cares...
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On October 19 2011 23:20 Chill wrote: You have a lot of conceptions about Koreans lol. Did you consider that A) she just doesn't want to talk to you? B) It's weird that someone is speaking to her in Korean C) she couldn't understand you.
Going with a, definitely A. And she gave her her number and MSN because Korean girls, they so shy. She probably felt your powerful eyes burning a disgraceful little hole in her chest and feared to reject you
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It's probably because you are Australian and so don't actually see Asian people on a regular basis, but there actually are foreign-ized Asians out there that weren't born in the "motherland".
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I'm an A.B.C. but I speak chinese fluently and understand my culture. I guess it just sucks for those who have forgotten their culture because they are 1st/2nd generation Americans. Not a disgrace, but I feel like you just miss out on your heritage.
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On October 20 2011 03:40 Skilledblob wrote: I cant understand the obsession of some people , mainly the americans, with their so called "ethnicy" if I meet some guy on the internet who claims he is "german" because he has german grandparents or even only great grandparents but grew up in the USA, never spoke a german word, never saw germany for longer periods etc then I just cant take those people seriously.
And this applies to everyone who thinks he has to stereotype himself by putting himself into an "ethnicy box" just so he can appear like something special even though as a matter of fact neither will those people be recognized as "real" parts of that ethnicy by the people who actually live in the respective countries and neither is it even something to spend much thought on. You are what you make of yourself and not an accumulation of country stereotypes you hope to achieve by overemphasizing your heritage.
Be proud of what you achieved through your own power and effort being proud of something you think is an important part of yourself even though it is actually just a piece of rock which you were randomly born on like millions of other poeple doesnt make you special Ethnicity = genetic race
If someone asks my nationality I'll say American for sure with no hesitation. But if someone asks me what my ethnicity and I say American I'd look like an idiot. The only ethnically American people out there are Native Americans. My ethnicity is Japanese because I am genetically born from Japanese people. I've been to Japan once for two weeks and I know little of Japanese culture other than what I've learned in school. I can speak a little bit of understandable Japanese, enough to converse with a native speaker, which is actually fairly significant considering I am fourth generation and few other people in that generation know any Japanese. Culturally I am 95% American, no doubt. But I call myself Japanese because it is literally true.
We don't call ourselves German or whatever ethnicity because we're proud of it or anything. We say it because it's true. The only only one here trying to seem special by putting themselves in an exclusive box is you by saying that you are a "real" German compared to the American fakes.
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Emporio I guess you didnt get it. I was trying to say that it doesnt matter at all to me what ethnecy or what ever you wanna call it you are from cause it's nothing you had to lift a finger for. So I see no point in emphasising it.
what defines you as yourself is roughly your upbringing, your set of morals and your achievements. Knowing that your greatgrand parents are from japan should not be something which should have any major influence on you.
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On October 20 2011 07:11 Skilledblob wrote: Emporio I guess you didnt get it. I was trying to say that it doesnt matter at all to me what ethnecy or what ever you wanna call it you are from cause it's nothing you had to lift a finger for. So I see no point in emphasising it.
what defines you as yourself is roughly your upbringing, your set of morals and your achievements. Knowing that your greatgrand parents are from japan should not be something which should have any major influence on you.
If your parents are Chinese that means your ethnicity is Chinese. If you are an American born Chinese you are Chinese American. It is as simple as that, why are you even arguing?
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my god being a whitewashed chinese person this is just saldjfsalkdjf. my brain can't handle this.
you're not really accusing anyone of anything but you're telling us a story about how this korean girl didn't know how to speak korean and you're awestruck? then you start to talk about how she would think of herself as a disgrace, but she has good grades so she isn't a disgrace? it's just very confusing.
by making this blog you're being viewed as an asshole because you're instruding onto someone else's personal life. it seems thatyou're so infatuated with korean culture that you can't stand the thought of someone of korean ethnicity being unable to speak the language.
Now she is herself a korean but she knows jack shit about the country and can't even speak the language better than some chinese guy. I don't know what to think of this.
this statement makes my head hurt. stop being ignorant and stop making generalizations. i
try going up to a black guy and saying "hey you're black but can you still do a native dance?" or try going up to me and saying "hey bro can you make general tso's chicken?" in a non-joking manner. it wont be pretty. it's very ignorant and borderline racist. although i know you don't intend on being an asshole you come off as one.
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this post makes me go wtf
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this blog made absolutely no sense to me, i think ur retarded
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