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An important update:

Due to a specific person being a complete child, comments are going to be screened by default.

This is only temporary, and I apologize for the inconvenience- this is going to be a pain in the ass for me, too, but multiple people have come forward about fears of doxxing, and this is the only way to make sure any doxxing is contained.

(This basically will force the doxxer to make a DW account to post any doxxing attempts unscreened, and will let me more reliably report them to DW staff/authorities.)

Again, I apologize, and will be working to unscreen comments as fast as possible, but I'm only one person.

(Vasemod has had some personal issues come up, so I am the only mod atm. Please bear with me until this bit of annoyance has passed.)

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Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT If that’s the way you feel about it then yeah, I guess they are. It’s no secret that there’s a massive obsession for East Asian culture, especially among anime enthusiasts. Not ALL of them but… a lot. I’ve known many people who watch anime and I’d say a large number of them have decided that "Asian" is their new favorite way of life, to the point of learning Japanese and similar. And tbh, Wind flight aesthetics on FR takes big inspo from those cultures, so that right there should show you how prevalent it is… whether it should be considered fetishization or just flattery is subjective.

Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

tfw learning a new language is problematic.

Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

tfw your native peoples language is dying out because it's cultural appropriation for others to learn it

Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

It's a double edged sword, sadly.

my people's language has ONE book to learn syntax/grammar from, and ONE dictionary, and they're both by the same (now deceased) author, and my people are SUPER distrustful of outsiders learning the language because when they do, they use it for their white Wiccan shit.

I only knew a few words/phrases from my paternal grandmother, and wasn't allowed to learn bc my mother was a racist twat. So now I have to try to learn it from a book, and let me tell you- that shit is HARD, especially when you don't have anyone around that speaks it fluently to learn from.

Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I really feel for you :/ at least with many more common languages you can watch movies/TV shows or read kids books to familiarize yourself with it. Plenty of people have learned English from consuming American media.

Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Thanks. It's also more convoluted because there's MANY dialects/vernacular that are similar but JUST different enough that it can cause mistranslation issues.

EG: The word for an outsider SOUNDS the same across most of the variations, but they're all spelled differently- some drastically so. Also, there's some differences that have caused some fights with some mutuals on social media where a word that means "incorrigible" in their variation means "twat/cunt" in mine. Lol WOOPS. (We had a laugh about it later once we'd cleared things up.)

The joys of being part of a diaspora lol

Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT lol my point was not that learning Japanese by itself is bad, it’s that it’s often combined with an almost unhealthy obsession with their culture or people. The people I was talking about that I know personally we’re 20 something white guys who REALLY liked Asian women and watched a lot of hentai.

Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

Again, sounds like your run of the mill weeb. They're cringe, but not doing much besides that, because we all know they think "2D women are better than 3D women" or something like that.

Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

DA yeah I don't think learning Japanese belongs on this list lol. But your point about it being subjective is very true. I am from another Asian culture and if a random white westerner did all that with my culture I wouldn't really care. It's not hurting me or the people back home, and I have met plenty of people with a particular fascination for my culture who are cool about it. I actually really like when that happens bc it helps me feel proud of my culture. But if someone tried to profit off of my culture in a way that exploited my people, or was only interested in it in a condescending or clinical way or something, that would be a problem.

Re: Saltmarsh

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
I think you missed the context of what I said. Learning Japanese isn’t weird if you like the language and the culture and want to communicate with the people. Learning Japanese IS weird if you’re doing it because you "identify" as a Japanese person when you’re not, or because you find Asian people sexy and you’re obsessed with them. There’s a line between normal and weird, and the people I knew we’re firmly in the weird territory.