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Originally Posted by godwine
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"
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Well I learned the word yesterday by reading this thread
Yeah ok older people can act the same way, most of them are just geeks
Media forms our minds, no ? They teach us in school about other countries and as kids we just believe everything that is being told to us. I bet you too associate countries with stuff, it's only after researching and living in a country that you can really tell what it's like and it'll still be your opinion.
A friend of mine loves Japan as much as I do, he went there two years ago I think and he loved it so it's not a rule that it's going to dissapoint you.
And another example : I love Canada so much and I had all these ideas about it, I hadn't been there for 7 years but when I arrived it felt like home and no dissapointment at all.