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 Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:33 pm
I'm so fed up with my younger cousin e_e;
Seriously, she's only a 11 year old girl but I'm so pissed with her. If anyone has read my deviant art journal entry recently, she's the one I was frustrated about.
Now it's at the point where she's being ridiculous.
http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=EYaxgbxZX3I&fromurl=/watch?v=EYaxgbxZX3I (She's 'TemariChi')
I know she really is in love with Japanese, Japan, and Anime, but she is NOT Japanese. I feel somewhat bad because I'm the reason she draws, and likes those things now. But at the same time, I'm mad that she took everything I love and made it worse (she freaking ruined Shugo Chara!'s ending for me XP, and won't SHUT UP about ANYTHING Anime related, she doesn't even call herself by her real name anymore, or her sister either, etc...) I don't mind idol worship, but now she's being creepy about it XP. She even wants to use the same brand of everything I use...
I really am upset with her and feel like I want to yell at her, but at the same time I don't want be a jerk. But I'm seriously fed up with her behavior and would love to scream at her for hours... *rant end*
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:40 am
Yikes. I can see why you're frustrated. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:07 am
._. oh geez. you seriously need to have a chat with your cousin, because she's quickly going down a very bad road, and it's going to be one she's going to have trouble getting off of if she goes too far down. then again, i guess you could say it's just simply immaturity, because i remember kind of being the same way when i first got into anime (except i love/loved North American music as much as Japanese music) way back when. but regardless of that, acting like how she is isn't good and you need to tell her so. what she's doing is discrimination, and racist (she may not think so, but it is; she's putting the Japanese on a pedastal while degrading everyone else). it needs to be nipped in the bud before it gets worse.
have a good, long talk with her, may it be in person or online. if she refuses to listen, you might have to teach her a lesson somehow...how much Japanese does she know? can she even read it (and i mean actual Japanese, not romaji)?
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:14 am
You gotta love kids at that age. I agree with Dark...definitely let her know that how she's acting isn't acceptable, but also realize she's young and just trying to find an identity for herself. I would be flattered if she were copying my style...as long as she's only doing it for now. I'm sure she won't do it for a LONG time, but emulation is the best way younger kids develop.
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Second_Crimson Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:15 pm
Yikes. I know she's young, but still...
That's one of the worst things about studying Japanese, actually: the number of Japanophiles I encounter every day in class. The campus' Japan Club, which used to be a really interesting and culture-based class has devolved into a bunch of freshman girls squeeing about anime and manga at every meeting who think they know everything about Japan just from watching Anime. One of the best and humbling things about studying Japan is learning about how much I, as an outsider, can never know.
Definitely try to get her off this path because, as much as she thinks she might be Japanese, she is not and never can be. And, although she's young, see if you can get her into a focused study of Japanese language and culture. It might help--every fanboy bone in my body was broken when I started studying it and replaced with an intense respect and admiration in the place of all the mindless squeeing I did.
Also, just as a disclaimer or something, this isn't meant to be elitist or snobby or anything. I still enjoy anime and everything Japanese as much as I used to (Cowboy Bebop is still basically the best thing ever)--it was just helpful to have my perspective and attitude about all of it changed. But fangirl-ism to this extent is just awful.
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:30 pm
Personally... I would rant her all up and down the street. Better yet. I would get my Japanese friend to rant at her in Japanese and be all: YOU"RE SO DISRESPECTFULLLLL!!!!
I love anime. I draw in anime style, but I'm not some freaky fan that thinks I'm Japanese. True, my friends call me Hisa, but they could call me whatever they want. lol I don't mind.
But ya. You need to smack her upside the head with her manga collection. :0 Maybe then she'll get a dose of reality? Hmmmmm.
I'm in a mean mood. hahaha.
Edit: Oh she's 11...... I'd wait another year. lol
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:57 pm
Demon Eyed Yikes. I know she's young, but still...
That's one of the worst things about studying Japanese, actually: the number of Japanophiles I encounter every day in class. The campus' Japan Club, which used to be a really interesting and culture-based class has devolved into a bunch of freshman girls squeeing about anime and manga at every meeting who think they know everything about Japan just from watching Anime. One of the best and humbling things about studying Japan is learning about how much I, as an outsider, can never know.
Definitely try to get her off this path because, as much as she thinks she might be Japanese, she is not and never can be. And, although she's young, see if you can get her into a focused study of Japanese language and culture. It might help--every fanboy bone in my body was broken when I started studying it and replaced with an intense respect and admiration in the place of all the mindless squeeing I did.
Also, just as a disclaimer or something, this isn't meant to be elitist or snobby or anything. I still enjoy anime and everything Japanese as much as I used to (Cowboy Bebop is still basically the best thing ever)--it was just helpful to have my perspective and attitude about all of it changed. But fangirl-ism to this extent is just awful. i agree. while i didn't necessarily take Japanese studies (i took basic Japanese in high school), i did eventually learn that there was so much more of Japan that i couldn't learn from anime. and i was genuinely interested to learn! so i did. sure, a lot of what i learn is still from anime, but i know better. if there's something i don't understand, or something i want to learn more about, i look it up. it's something i try to do, since i want to keep things accurate for the fics i write. i'm misinforming my readers if i don't have the right facts or minor subtleties. on the other hand, it may be something she'll grow out of. i definately remember being like that, and it took me several years to slowly smarten up. then again, i didn't have an older cousin i looked up to to teach me otherwise razz i had to hear from people who knew better, though they weren't necessarily trying to teach me specifically.
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:12 pm
 {Sunrise}//(Make me feel life) (Sunset)//{Make me feel love} I think that every anime fan goes through that phase, if they first get into it at a young age. I remember being some what like that when I was in middle school/elementary school. Taking Japanese class in high school helped, and just maturing in general.
However, while I did go through a "fangirl/Wapanese" phase, I never went out and insulted anyone on the internet, pretending to fully understand a culture that I had barely been exposed to. I'm more concerned with her rudeness and insulting habits than her ignorance. I would smack her upside the head and say "Quite being a b***h - you don't know what you're talking about, so stop trying to pretend you're knowledgeable when you're actually ignorant." She may still be young, but she is 11, and frankly, she is at the age where she should have proper etiquette.
I relate to Demon a lot when dealing with Japanophiles in school. I'm in Japanese IV, so all of those kids have been shifted out of my classes already, but I'm also an official at my school's Anime Club, and oh god do we have a lot of them. The worse part is not their annoying behavior, but the bad name they bring to anime fans. I feel like when I tell people that I love anime I have to make it clear that I'm not one of those annoying kids who shout "KAWAII" and "YAOI" as if those are the most important words in the Japanese language.
But luckily my favorite animes are not that main stream or well known (Ghost in the Shell, DRRR, Cowboy Bepop, FLCL, etc.) so I don't have to deal with most of the annoying fans who mainly think that Naruto, Bleach, and Hetalia are the most important and best animes. (I actually had a friend who got yelled at while at an anime convention because, while she has been an anime fan for years, she had never seen Bleach and was thus 'not a true anime fan' rolleyes ) 
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:40 pm
Thanks everyone, I'll try to talk to her about it x.x.
Yeah, I think we all had a phase like that. I had one like hers, but I wan't so bad. I thought I knew more than the little bit I knew, and as I kept taking Japanese, I found out I was more in love with Japanese culture than just Anime and Manga, but I still like those things XD;. But in no way was I insulting to people and called them a 'racist' =P.
I really hope this is just a phase, and I've already told her that I'm disappointed in her for acting the way she is. I have yet to get a reply from her e_e.
@ Dark: She can read a few Hiragana and Katakana, but not enough to comprehend a sentance or anything e_e.
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