What was your reason for taking Japanese language learning seriously?

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Is there something about your native culture you do not identify with?

[dickdem No.]

fbhdh

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Japanese sounds pretty to my ears

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yes i do

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>>38468232
>Is there something about your native culture you do not identify with?
Stupid question, how old are you?

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>>38468232
yea I self isolated during my formative years because no one fucking wanted me and now find comradery with the homos on this god forsaken website.

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>>38468232
>Is there something about your native culture you do not identify with?
Yes, almost all of it.

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>>38468232
I am part of the Japanese diaspora. I've been alienated from my own culture and the easiest way to engage with it online is through the most well-trodden paths of others on the English speaking internet, namely autistic depressed loser weeaboos like the person reading this.

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>>38469423
How do you feel about chink weebs?

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Yes, I'm a third culture kid.

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>>38469520
I'm also half Chinese, there are a lot of us. I think a lot of minorities in America, particularly Asian minorities are drawn to Japanese culture because it has historically had a very active following on the English web. It presents an alternative axis of media which is deeply appealing to people who feel alienated by white cultural production.

Idk about mainland Chinese weebs though, that seems like something very different with its own history and nuances.

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>>38469808
>who feel alienated by white cultural production
What aspects of "white cultural production" are you referring to?

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>>38470336
The American cultural hegemony, like Hollywood, Disney, sitcoms, soap operas, boy bands, etc

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>>38470423
What aspects of those productions do you feel "alienated" by?

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>>38470521
you're retarded

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>>38471155
I'm legitimately wanting to hear you out but whatever.

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>>38472803
Short answer is not seeing anyone that resembles you or reflects your experience in media

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>>38472949
You’re saying this current-day with the fewest number of white people present in the history of western media?

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>>38468232
Something something Western liberalism. Something something anti-White. Something something feminism. Something something subversive Western media.

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>>38475999
I'm obviously talking about when I was growing up, retard. That there are the fewest white people now doesn't resolve this either because it's still overwhelmingly white, retard. No amount of tokenism is going to change that which is why a cultural mode which isn't white is attractive, retard.

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I just think it's neat

[Anonymous No.]

Holy fuck I hope all of you homovan cocksuckers get raped to death by a coked up gorilla wearing a shit smeared razor dildo.

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>>38479372
reverse uno you

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>>38479372
>>38486201
Now kiss

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Took karate when I was like 8 because it was the only cool thing to do in my town. Didn't stick with it long but there was a cute girl in my class and that made me learn all the numbers and karate terminology. Started learning in earnest when Pokemon GS came out in Japan a couple years later and I somehow got a ROM and wanted to learn enough to play it.

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>>38471155
>>38479342
You can tell he's part chinese from how spicy he got

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>>38468232
I'm alone in this world.

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Thing about Japanese culture, is that it both has a heavily collectivist aspect to it, meaning it's actual society, and popular media, which tilts to the opposite end of the spectrum. I've seen plenty of people, overwhelmingly girls, who were attracted to the culture and the language primarily for the first reason.

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Because I like their media. That's really it. I don't identify with them because I don't know what it's like and I don't identify with my countrymen because I just want peace and quiet; the States are often very loud. Fireworks (where I live they do them several months a year, sometimes past 10 pm), cars honking, engines revving, people yelling... and a general lack of consideration for others. I used to live by a trail which I'd hike regularly, but once it became popular, people started littering, leaving dogshit in the middle of the trails, whooping loudly because they like to hear their own echoes, walking around with their music on full blast, walking their dogs without leashes and being surprised when the dogs get aggressive... being individualistic isn't bad by itself, but when nobody considers the effects their actions have on others, there is a problem.

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>>38492923
Their media doesn't reflect "what they are like", it reflects what they would like to be, in a rebellious kind of way.

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>>38468232
i hate everything in my culture . born by accident in that culture , i didnt choose it .

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I like my burger culture plenty, but I started learning Japanese because I wanted to be one of the cool kids who read untranslated stuff when I was 17, and I gave up because that is not sufficient motivation to learn a whole ass language. When I was 20 I decided to learn a language for "self improvement" or something gay like that, and I picked Japanese because I already had built something vaguely resembling a foundation. I still had to learn from the ground up, and I still barely understand anything, but give me enough time and I can probably figure out what a sentence means. Maybe I should try again...

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i love my culture, japanese culture is pretty similar to it (both negative and positive)
learning the language because its neat, luv me logograms and fuck china

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shitposters on 4chan convinced me i wasn't actually experiencing the media unless i did so in the native language

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My native country is stupid and spiritless. Japanese stuff always seemed more artistic and intellectual.

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I love my own culture. I like Japanese culture because it has an interesting mixture of Eastern and Western values.

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>>38468232
Bored.