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Originally Posted by MissMisa
We've had this discussion many times and my opinion is this:
Who cares?
I don't care if someone gets a little OTT about Japan, they aren't HARMING anyone, they might be mildly annoying at best. If people like this actually get to you, then you need to lighten up.
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It depends on your situation IMO. Living outside of Japan, it's not a big deal at all, but when I lived in Japan, I lived with a fairly large community of foreigners, which included people of all types and motivations. The obsessives tended to be picked up more by the local media/ stereotyping machine, and anyone with more diverse or serious interests could easily find themselves having to answer for the obsessives, which can be highly embarrassing. Especially if the Japanese people they were talking to had only encountered this sort of person, or doesn't understand it at all.
So not harmful, per se, but limiting, and it can create a general stereotype for the motivations of students in Japan, so it can be limiting and somewhat of a stigma in the worst case.