Elitism sucks. It's not like Japanese Customs gives you a magic ring that only other people who have set foot in Japan can see, to induct you in the Been To Japan Club it's actually an invisible tattoo but you didn't hear it from me.
This specific form of weeabo elitism has always confounded me. "I've studied Japanese for four years, so that makes me better/more Japanese than you!" "Yeah, well, I have every single manga of InuYasha, in the original Japanese, so that makes me more Japanese than you!" But then I don't consider Japanese culture something worthy of such covetousness, so maybe it just seems ridiculous to me
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Besides which, only Weasleys eat slugs. *nose in the air*
Actually, the eventual turn-out was pretty high. They ran out of chairs, in the end...people just sort of slowly trickled in.
I'm going to go back, to at least two more meetings (what's it Rotary says? Try everything at least three times? Lol), so we'll see. Honestly, she made me more determined than I already was (which is saying something) to do Study Abroad again SOON. I went to a "first step" sort of meeting last week, actually. ^..^
And I've totally read a fic where Hermione's parents were spies, so someone beat you to the punch. ^..~
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This specific form of weeabo elitism has always confounded me. "I've studied Japanese for four years, so that makes me better/more Japanese than you!" "Yeah, well, I have every single manga of InuYasha, in the original Japanese, so that makes me more Japanese than you!" But then I don't consider Japanese culture something worthy of such covetousness, so maybe it just seems ridiculous to me ( ... )
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Actually, the eventual turn-out was pretty high. They ran out of chairs, in the end...people just sort of slowly trickled in.
I'm going to go back, to at least two more meetings (what's it Rotary says? Try everything at least three times? Lol), so we'll see. Honestly, she made me more determined than I already was (which is saying something) to do Study Abroad again SOON. I went to a "first step" sort of meeting last week, actually. ^..^
And I've totally read a fic where Hermione's parents were spies, so someone beat you to the punch. ^..~
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