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icharchivist · 10 months

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i understand the point people are making with those posts but it's always a bit funny to me when i see those posts about like "god people are so weird with how they talk about Japanese/Korean culture, imagine we do the same thing with Germany and suddenly start to drop German words into our sentences like that that'd be so weird" and it's like, yeah, i can imagine that, very well, that's what living in Europe in the late 2000s during the Tokio Hotel mania was like.

Like, unironically exactly like that.

I get the original point, i really do, but this might be the wrong example.

#like. idk man.#just before it was Italian music. So much so people kept dropping Italian words in sentences around me #and finding it dope i had an Italian name. Then the fad faded away.#but i vividly remember the 00s like are you kidding me #the fact my middle school was overwhelmed by the amount of people who picked learning German that one year #literally everyone around me speaking broken German #like this was the period i was getting into Japanese music and /i/ was the weird one because everyone was in full Germany mania #i also have the same reaction to like.... post that try to make fun of people who like #go to Japan and do those trip videos where they keep dropping Japanese words and mention how random things look so ~exotic~#and they go 'imagine people do the same with America'#and i'm. they do. They really do. My sister had an American themed room with a big American flag in it. and she pulled those things too.#also have you seen how anyone who don't hate France talk about Paris.#of course the fetishization of Asian countries is a super important topic to be aware of #especially with the lenses of orientalism and the colonisation and stuff #but sometimes the specific things people call out are just.... things people do when they get a little too excited #and it's important to know where the limit is. it's just. noteworthy that a lot of it is just similar to others more general stuff #ichatalks

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