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>start having interest in Japan and Japanese culture when I am 7 or 8 years old >Study the culture, literature, and history >Decide to learn language and follow my mates into and English teaching field in Japan >Always afraid I'll be seen as a weeaboo when I just have an interest in Japan I wish I could get over this desu, I have had to explain to people all throughout my time in University that I am not a weeaboo because I'm learning the language or reading a Japanese books, I just think the Sengoku era was interesting and like reading about it.
Liam Adams
What interests you about the Sengoku era?
Nolan Wright
ここは、流れで、ケチャップたっぷり ハヤシライスかチキンライスに 「カレーもいいけど、ハヤシもね」
Nicholas Allen
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Jordan Sanchez
この速さなら言える 実は俺、嘉麻市民
Carter Russell
乙
ナニその画像 どん子ちゃんの方が可愛い
Henry Diaz
>Always afraid I'll be seen as a weeaboo when I just have an interest in Japan What does it matter?
Daniel Bailey
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Noah Jenkins
おつおつ
どう?美味しい?
I dunno man, as long as you don't go around wearing anime t-shirts, gushing about how awesome Japan is, using Japanese words around non-Japanese speakers and shit like that I don't think it's really a problem. America might be different, though.
くそかわええわ デーンくんが
Jason Cruz
Weeaboo is really just a slur reserved for unsightly awkward people. The whole bit of actually enjoying Japanese culture/media/history is kind of a diverted focus, you know? If you conduct yourself well and with dignity I don't see how such a term should have any effect.
Why does it matter? Most people don't really care whether you're a weeaboo anyways unless you're like, really socially awkward about it or something.
Exactly
Evan Brown
美味しいよ。かぼちゃ入れたから甘い。でも辛口のルーを使ったからちょうどいい。
William Sanchez
カレーの肉は豚のもも肉と決まってるのだ・・・ カツカレーの場合カツはチキンカツのほうがいいのだ
Jackson Sanchez
I think it is the idea that all of Japan collapsed into multiple factions that fought with each other to unify the land in THEIR ideal image. It's the people, both righteous warlords and evil tyrants and everyone in between. It's facinating to read about the battles between, say the Takeda and the Uesugi. battles, strategies, architecture. It's all just so fucking awesome. It's just all awesome, it's not the only era I'm interested in, but I spend my free time reading about it and the Three Kingdoms of China. They are my fuel
I have to thank Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, and Koei for helping me really cement my interest in it. And for Namasensei and GimmeaBreakman for making me want to teach English there.
[spoiler]I do not like anime that much beyond like DragonBall[/spoiler] but everyone thinks I do.
I can understand that
The problem is that most of my friends in Uni are 2nd and 3rd generation Japanese who are trying to learn the language properly, and when we are out and doing shit. I'm always referred to as the Weeb because I'm the one white person. It just kind of makes me feel bad that it is what I'm known as.
Oliver Butler
日本語できない言い訳 The weeb is not equal to the person who can do Japanese. even if he can't speak Japanese, a weeb is the weeb
I guess I get that. Technically if you're that interested in Sengoku era/Three Kingdoms you probably are still a weeb though, you're basically an east asian history otaku.
Eli Miller
>my friends in Uni are 2nd and 3rd generation Japanese who are trying to learn the language properly, and when we are out and doing shit. I'm always referred to as the Weeb because I'm the one white person They are not your friends.
Luis Morris
Ay mayne, I was being serious. I'm not gay or anything but you're cute af t b h. デカいバイキングが猫を愛おしそうに抱いてるっていうギャップ萌え
かぼちゃ入りのカレーは食ったことないけど美味しそう 肉は?
Owen Myers
I am Japanese but I never studied our history with much enthusiasm like you. I go really quiet when other people discuss who killed who for what purpose in history.
>daneweeb is going to become a male gigolo or male stripper for old Japanese Christmas cake ladies for minimum wage >he'll get paid a little extra each time he licks their smelly old rotten roast beef pussies
You're the Token Gaijin, on top of being called a derogatory term by them despite your efforts to tell them otherwise.
I see. Google translated it to "Fuck you, Dane-kun", so I thought there were some issue.
Henry Cox
家族の何人も使った汚い風呂湯を使っても平気な日本人が言うなw
Levi Gonzalez
仲良すぎてかわいい
William Bailey
無理せず日本語でいいよ
Joseph Hernandez
だから上がり湯だろ 外人は浴槽を使わずにシャワーだけで終わるから体臭が残ってあんなに臭いんだよ
Robert Hall
はあ?
Lucas Wilson
皿洗う時の水ってどれくらい汚いの?
Christian Ortiz
ホームステイしてた家は洗剤を流してなかった
Levi Nelson
ん~100点だな 120点中
そっかそっか 今度試してみようかじゃあ
My bad m8 I thought you could read Japanese. I actually said: Cute as fuck Dane-kun is Doesn't translate well, but you see it was supposed to be this shitty little joke where at first you think I'm talking about the cat until you get to the second line where you see that it's about you and you get all flustered and shit and you're like yada~(n*´ω`*n)
Noah Bennett
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Landon Gray
彼は日本語できるのは知らないけど
Nolan Baker
Nah I'm not that guy, I was just another curious American. What if they are just teasing him? I mean he IS the odd one out. I've done the same with token blacks in friend groups before. I don't much care for such behavior either, I think it is pretty childish and low brow, but this how a lot of people seem to operate in groups (groups of men, that is). I don't know though, you are the gaijin here, so maybe you can sense some sort of peculiar Japanese passive aggressive malevolence.
>so maybe you can sense some sort of peculiar Japanese passive aggressive malevolence. Not really so far, but I haven't been around people my age.
In any case, I'm huge and bearded, so I doubt anyone would even attempt to take the piss at me. Only friends back home who've known me for years do that.
Kevin Stewart
どう否定してもぜってぇホモだな、お前は
Colton Wood
I'm going to write that on my Kanji folder to keep me motivated. Thank you, Japanon.
I think it what happened took place in any other region it would be just as cool though is the issue. Chinese and Japanese back then were really different from Western feudal societies.
I do not think they mean to offend, but it is not something I have been able to shake.
Looking at your history, I do not blame you, friend.
Jose Taylor
美味しそう さつまいもをいっぱい貰ったからやってみようかなー
Jaxon Cox
The farm has two cats.
This is Nyantaro.
Leo Cooper
Nihonjins, is this racist, yo?
Evan White
Is this offensive?
Jonathan Adams
>nihongos find it cool to speak english words for emphasis >shun everyone who speaks english natively figures
Ryder Edwards
>japan tried to stop AirBnb from doing business in Japan >we don't want white people and gaijin renting in our country, in our neighborhoods >they try to bring them to court and ban them in Japan >they lose
Americans want to force the model to apologise for this "racist photo-shoot"
Noah Young
Unbelievable. SJW, muh feelings, these things are making this world sick!
Samuel Diaz
Americans are idiots though
Grayson Butler
実はね ホモじゃないんだ
名前べたすぎw
Andrew Campbell
芸者ってなんだかんだ言っても風俗嬢なんだけどな
Andrew Morris
オージー乙〜!(・ω・)ノ
Evan Diaz
マジか!そんな偶然あるんだな
Samuel Anderson
Who cares what a couple dumb people on the internet think, there are people out there that think even just wearing a kimono is racist somehow
Oliver Ortiz
>偶然 違います Homoスレッドに2人のKama これは偶然ではありません
Nicholas Green
And why are those people usually American?
Matthew Reed
Boт ты пиздишь-пиздишь, a двaч yжe yмep.
Liam Thompson
I'm not sure, maybe it's because most websites where people talk about that stuff have mostly American users? Or maybe America's culture just breeds more people with extreme views (cause there's plenty of dumb people here in the other direction too as is plain to see on this website). Also America has more racial tension than a lot of countries due to the relatively diverse population which leads more people getting into social justice stuff.
William Martinez
ρ /⌒⌒\ | (゚Д゚)
Aaron Wilson
手術くんはここにいる。 まだ生きている :3
Dominic Moore
わーいわーい 生きてるんだー わーいわーい
Benjamin Cooper
sweet boys
Hudson Bennett
вaй вaй вaй вaй вaй вaй
Liam Gutierrez
Fuck off
Tyler White
マジレス乙
Jackson Jenkins
cлaвa yкpaинe
Brody Ortiz
売春するのは一部でイコールじゃないな
Hudson Adams
いいよその話題がちょっと面白いと思う
Ian Moore
Your thoughts on rosatom, and their international nuclear plant building prospects
Jordan Miller
日本のキラキラネームってなんか羨ましい
Chase Garcia
>9 田山加奈 >たなかかな
「たやま」じゃん(´・ω・`)
Kevin Robinson
Drink Water を越えるキラキラネームは無いけどね シンプルであり最高
Juan Lee
>佐藤 砂糖
www
Logan Perez
>箱女 -> ぱんどら w
Alexander Perry
I watched a Jap movie on the plane when I left Vietnam because chink movies are generally cheesy and fucking god awful, and they had a limited selection of Western movies
The Jap movie was about a divorced Dad whose wife cucks him and shacks up with a rich guy. Throughout the entire film he gets humiliated by his mom, his sister, and his ex-wife. And his father was also portrayed as a massive loser. kek There was no happy ending as there would be in a Western movie, like the family winning the lottery and the guy getting back together with his wife or something. It just ends on a depressing note.