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Originally Posted by Lien
I don't live in Japan, in fact I have never visited it yet, I'm planning too but that might take a couple of years because it's expensive, and I'm not planning on moving either.
Well I think that most "Weeaboos" are just children, probably not older than 16 who can still fantasize about all kinds of things. I see this in my religion too, I'm a witch and most teens who are interested in witchcraft think that you can really use spells and the most common question I get is how to make someone in love with you... typical childish thoughts and most people grow out of them. If they don't then they just have to learn it the hard way, because it won't make any difference if you tell them they are living in a fantasy... Just have to be a bit realistic.
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To be honest, i didn't know the meaning of Weeaboos until recently. Though, most people I saw (not just this forum) and talked to, who fantasized about Japan are well over 16, some are in the mid 20s. They all share one common background: Growing up with manga, anime, video games, toys and other form of "Entertainment" from Japan. A lot of them based their knowledge of Japan on these exposure without exploring further in to the country, its history, language, people etc etc, their view are trapped by a fabricated world that these media present.
It wasn't too long ago when I replied to a thread on this forum, an adult martial artist who want to go to Japan to train for a year. Sounds good? Until he said he want to find the "real master" that live and train deep in the mountain woods.... This person, sound sane and all, and is an adult....
I have a Friend (Irish dude), my age - mid 30s, who once told me that he want to visit Japan with me because "Japan seems so cool with its robot and sh!t", up to this day, we still make fun of him for that comment, and he admitted he wasn't joking, he seriously thought that Japan has Gundam size robot that does "crap"