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Re: I find the term weeaboo and Wapanese very offensive.
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Originally Posted by Kanashimi
In reference to the video I think he's a know it all that wanted attention by shoving a video of him disrespecting other people to make himself feel better. I watched a minute and got bored because he was shoving the fact that because he lived in Japan he had sort of the right to say what was and wasn't.
Opinions are opinions, let him have them. It's not really in our realm of control if we don't agree with them. If people are too closed minded to automatically attack us... well, that's there problem, but honestly with the mainstream boom of anime in the mid-90s I would say this isn't really that much of a threat.
I mean words are what you make of them. Everyone has a different thing that comes to mind when I say words like "hope", "pride", "legend", etc. If I make geek a good word in my mind it can be a good word, but it doesn't change ti for anyone else either.
Though I wasn't trying to group subcultures together, but you also have to note that most people who aren't fans of any of those things will.
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I know in Japan some of the home grown subcultures get snubbed out, in fact even the more famous ones around Ikeburo get their own attacks. But the grouping of various subcultures lets say of kaiju fans (which has almsot disappeared from the japanese mainstream is still popular outside of Japan.) I just don't want a disappearing of various subcultures because it is going back to be considered bad to join a certain subculture.
Even though this would tie in various nerd subcultures even more with various heavy metal subcultures, but again I'm getting on a tangent.
I agree with you in the fact that words is what we make of them, and nothing will change it even if I think it is postive there are people who think it will always be negative (I have a few friends who don't like being called nerd or geek, we are more geeks than nerds)
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