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 Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:23 pm
AHHHHH I GET THAT ALLLLL THE TIME!!!!! i took mandarin chinese last year. i get study hard and get good grades because that is the standard i'm held to. somehow those two things have become connected and i'm just a wanna-be asian... then after being questioned on what lnguages i want to learn besides spanish, i listed arabic first and was rudely cut off by the questioner who proceded to call me a wanna be brown person--hes an arab muslim. i just dont understand. apparently striving to learn about another people's culture and language makes you a wanna-be...? NO, it doesnt! Song of the Rain And I run into a lot of trash from the White Supremacists down here too, especially because I'm marrying into a Mexican family. It's really hard to find friends because there just aren't interracial relationships down here, and the fact that I'm trying to learn more about the culture and language just makes it worse. i get what you're saying here, but i feel like this whole "wanna-be" thing is more prevalent in multi-cultural areas, where 1st or second generation immigrants can say that your being a wanna be probably because they themselves are not as culturally or lingually attached to their own people. and i think that if the person were truly connected to their culture, they would be happy that someone else is trying to undertand it and leanr the language. that isnt to say that "wanna-be"s arent out there. there certainly are such people. like those who just say simple common words from the language and arent intent on truly learning the language.
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:05 am
I've been called a wannabe plenty of times for learning Japanese and Italian. Though I got called an Italian wannabe by an ignorant Italian-American friend of mine (whom doesnt speak Italian).
I have encountered the Japanese wannabe LOADS of times, it's crazy! Then once I have been called something close to anti-american because of WWII.
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:03 pm
You know what's annoying? When you try to learn a language and investigate into the culture a bit, and someone from that culture accuses you of being a wannabe and only being interested because "you don't have any culture of your own." stare
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:08 am
I usually severely reprimand people for it online all the time! Now in real life I make it clear that I'm genuinely interested in the Japanese language and culture (and to be very blunt: I don't like animé and manga that much, and WANT to learn more about its culture.) and not a ******** Weeaboo (ugh, Applemilk1988, At!, Magicalpockeyusagi, etc). Many people offline don't know what a Weeaboo is or simply use "Wapanese" (Wannabe Japanese, this applies to non-white people too.) As for other languages this is not the case. Though I do think it depressing that I have to re-learn my native language entirely all over again. (Swedish)
But ignorance is just annoying. I know mentioned this in one thread (or 2 before) but I'll repeat here:
Black person dared to call me a "Nazi" because I have blonde hair and blue eyes (I'm not even German! I'm Scandinavian- Danish mother, Swedish father) when I did absolutely nothing to offend him! I mean come on are you seriously going to assume someone is a certain ethnicity/nationality based on looks?! Racist much? Now I did have people assume that I'm of German decent because I took an interest in the German language but never a wannabe German. Gee, I wonder why stare [/rant]
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:27 pm
Haha yeah I try not to do Japanese related things around other people because I don't want to get annoyed for it. Luckily I'm half-asian and half white so I'm not seen too much of a "wanna-be." That is, when talking to an asian person about manga (which I admit I love, sue me) I will say "by the way I'm half asian." That probably seems wrong but believe me, most Asian people I know don't really like white people that like anime enthusiastically. (Manga not as much.) It seems like they're trying to be exotic and different, among other things. (Not saying that it's true, it's just what it seems like.)
And most people I know who are trying to learn a non-romance language are trying to learn Japanese. So it's kind of reached the stage where it's not obscure enough to be cool, but also not mainstream enough to be normal, it just seems like you're learning it because you think it's still cool.
But once we learn fluency nobody will bother us about it! biggrin Wooooooo
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:53 pm
I get called a weabu all the time, because I generally like the animation style that the japanese use. I study into various cultures, and try to find out my many heritages. I can't help it I'm a mutt. I've got so much to learn about my ancestors. I already know who I am as a person, but to be judged for things that I like to do...Urg, it makes me wanna punch babies. lol
rofl
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 9:37 am
Being a mutt is good. keeps the population from inbreeding too much.
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:04 pm
I love anime, I love manga, and I love the Japanese culture and Language. Am I a wanna-be? No
I have been called a wanna-be Asian many times, but I'm not.
I'm Bolivian, I love my culture, roots, and food. It doesn't mean I can't hold appreciation and curiosity of other languages.
I've studied and still study Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, German, Latin, and French. I love all of those languages and their respective cultures. I don't make it a secret. Yet, the only culture for which I'm called a wanna-be has been the Japanese. Why? Because I happen to like anime and draw manga.
Am I insulted? Nah, I just laugh.
A lot of people are horribly irrational and only see what they want to see. There's always going to be someone like that.
What I find more infuriating is the people who don't even know the languages you know or the culture you're from or the personality you have and insult you, on the streets, in their cars, without having the balls to say it face to face.
I've been called a nazi many many times by random people I've never even talked to or seen.
I've been told I look eastern european, even though I'm Hispanic with over 7 generations of Bolivians. My ancestors are British and Spaniords. How the hell am I a Nazi then?
I used to have a few German flag themed Jackets that I usually wore to high school since they were comfy, practical and from the school I went in Bolivia.
Apparently, wearing an article of clothing makes it appropriate for random passengers to yell comments such as " You Nazi, go back to your own country!"
Am I insulted? No
Am I still happy? No, people's irrationality has a way with making one's mood sour. It really makes me want for the aggressor to just say it face to face so I can teach them a good ol' fashioned lesson in life.
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 2:18 pm
I've been called a wanna-be before. But it was strange because I didn't expect who I got it from. I'm passively learning Chinese (I go to a Chinese church) but I'm not Chinese. And a lot of people who aren't Chinese call me a wanna-be. But the Chinese in my community treat me like I'm Chinese. They don't try to scare me away with big sentences and complicated characters. And they don't talk to me like I'm a little kid who doesn't know what she's doing.
It's something I didn't expect when I started going to the Chinese church.
The same thing happens with the other languages I learn. People who aren't whatever race generally speaks a language I'm interested in call me a wanna-be.
Truthfully, my family is actually from most of the cultures of the languages I'm learning to speak. People feel REAL bad when they call me a German wanna-be and then find out that I'm German and just want to learn one of my family's languages that my grandpa never passed down . . . xD
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:54 am
I've been called a "eurofag" before because I said most, if not all, countries in Europe are more progressive than the U.S.
I've never heard the term 'wanna-be" refer to languages before... o_O
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