Let's Talk About Weeaboos
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I've made videos about "weeaboos" in the past, but I haven't shared my own experiences yet.
I've been to many countries and I've met many people who were interesting in Japan to varying degrees. Most of them were just cool people, but some of them were...
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I think it really comes down to your communication skills when it comes to how people around you feel about your interest in Japan.
Even if you are pretty obsessive about Japan, if you have good social skills, people won't be dismissive about your interest.
And if you have good social skills, you will make plenty of genuine Japanese friends especially if you speak Japanese.
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please explore the weaboo counterpart: "westaboo." an example would be a japanese otaku of western media/movies/comics/entertainment. a good example would be some chuunibyou that love HP Lovecraft, use german words often even if they can't speak the language, and show an interest in western occult. some even theorize that the creator of metal gear solid is a westaboo given his interest for western film-makers and knowledge of western style military espionage stories.
Is this an insult to introverts?
I've always wanted to meet an Ainu. What are your thoughts on them?
I didn't feel insulted. In my opinion it was a clear rational thought, plus a good standpoint to have, and to speak about.
@@idleeidolon "some even theorize that the creator of"....what? Ah don't leave me hanging! Oh. and GNU Terry
"Where are people, there are problems" truer words have never been spoken
Yep!!!
I’ll give you some words that are more true, “water is wet”
@@isthatmattandryanfromsuper7951 How can water be wet if the definition of wet is "soaked with liquid"? Is it soaked with itself? Is it absorbing or covered by itself? A drenched towel might be wet, but water, I don't know.
Solution: go where there's no people.
@@TeeTaan Get some dehydrated water. Add water. Now you have wet water.
My favorite is when an actual Japanese person gets called a weaboo online.
Those "cringy weeaboo compilations"
Have tons of Japanese people in them.
The people who bash weebs are just a cancerous as the weebs themselves.
@@qioxqiox316 I'd say worse since they're obsessively hating on an already obsessive group.
@@qioxqiox316 It is really annoying how many people misuse the word "Weaboo". It isn't just a guy that likes anime/manga and is interested in Japanese culture. It is a person that is obsessed enough to call anything that doesn't come from Japan crap, actually wants to be Japanese and thinks manga/anime is an accurate depiction of everyday Japanese life.
I have seen that before XD. Like someone will correct someones misspelling of a Japanese word only for the person to retaliate by calling them a "weeb" then they reply".........I am Japanese."
I have been actually called a weeaboo though I'm a Japanese when I commented in Japanese on RUclips
Gaijin Hunter sounds like a shounen manga
yeah im a weaboo
That'd be a hilarious manga idea.
I'd read it ngl
And that's a fact
Sounds more like a doujinshi to me
"We have a life, and if you don't... Get one"
Yuta, 2k19.
this quote is so perfect
Yo u Indian?
I had a life once and it was awful.
t. ひきこもり
@@execute6200 Me? Nope. My name is, but i'm from Argentina :)
@@सूर्य-ग7ह oo ur name reads surya which means sun in our language
Just bring the weeaboos and gaijin hunters together so normal people can have normal interactions
It'll be kinda chaotic relationships lol
@@stayskeptic3923 i feel sorry for you, liking people simply because of their race is weird af...
Weebs want to practice japanese and Gajin hunters want to practice english, they would repel each other quickly unless one doesn't know the other's language
Put them all in a giant stadium
*AND HAVE THEM FIGHT !!!*
@@thomasrad5202 they'll need a kind of program to decide when they have to use English and when Japanese 😂
Where there are people, there are problems.
-The Japanese Man Yuta
The truth!
UserInterface00 best thing he ever said
@@Mureirsa thats not something he came up with tho. It is a rather popular saying actually
Indeed
I'm still trying to understand how a person can think a whole country is perfect.
They probably get that from what they see in Anime.
I don't believe every single country is good as it also has it's own standards.
If you compare Japan to your average shithole it might as well be! Of course, the same could be said if you compare them to other developed countries though!
BenjaminFranklin99 That is true, because at the angle you are watching the other side, you see the sides of the grass blades, and see less of the soil. The grass on your side is viewed from a top down angle, thus you see the soil and the gaps between the grass. The grass on your side appears greener to your neighbors as well.
nationalism is one hell of a drug
I’m Japanese and got called “weaboo” by a random guy in the game lmao
Shut up weebs...
jk sorry :(
I guess you're a weeb now xD
Weeb.
shut the fuck up weeb no one needed to know
Rayyan A what are you then?? A bitch? Lolll stay mad~~
I'm pretty sick of everyone using "weeb" as a derogatory term for anyone who enjoys even the smallest thing about japan... like geesh.. give it a rest, internet
fr, i've been called a weeb for learning japanese, like??? can't i just learn a language without being obsessed with it's place of origin? i mean, i'd like to study abroad there, but i don't see how that makes me a weeb.
I hate those type of people
"Let's talk about Weeaboos" thumbnail-*points out at us* Oh! Okay.
right? :sweats:
chotto matte
I mean, i used to be an "otaku", then people switched to "weaboo" when they learnt what otaku meant, we just really owned up to it and call ourselves weebs, just like black people use the "n-word" (goddamn censorship) with each other as if it was nothing lol.
@@rRekko Gamers suffer an N-word (noob) too. Few of them own up to it as well.
Ikr
I used to be an italiaboo. I was learning the language everyday, was obsessed with Italy and wanted to get the nationality. It's somehow still more acceptable in people's eyes for some reason than somebody doing that for Japanese.
It's because Italy doesn't have otaku culture for their own cultural products. Japan has millions of super awkward nerds who are in to anime and video games, and the west has developed a population of these people who are into it as well. The people shouting "weeaboo!" are more criticizing this aspect more than they are the Japanese interest itself.
Because Italy is a western country, and this way to criticize people calling them "Weeaboo" (because they admire japanese culture) comes from the western countries, so it doesn't look strange to westerners someone who admires a western country.
as an italian american, this is wild to me, lol.
Didn't know Italiaboo was a thing, like italian cuisine tho. Rome history is also cool
@@sLasHeRxXx07 now you have westoweebs lol
This talk of foreigners talking to Japanese people only because they're Japanese is interesting, because I also know of Japanese people talking to foreigners only so they could get better at English.
As an indian from UK, I know some Indians from group chats that randomly text to learn English or to say they have a western friend. One even asked for pictures of London and the currency, not sure why
What are your thoughts on the Ainu?
Nicholas Bell
Oml wth
@@notakanksh8752 booom 😂
Nicholas Bell WTH
This is so important Yuta. When I went to a Japanese language school in Japan, I saw so many people (mostly the teens) that were disappointed that Japan wasn't like anime. Japan is great. It's beautiful, rich in culture, and very unique. As you said every country has its ups and downs. I saw both and that's fine. I still visit yearly and will continue to.
What is wrong with the school that isn't in anime?
Yes, i been seeing this too much... people romantize Japan too much, like EVERYTHING is PERFECT... just like every country, they have their own quirks
Fenrir AB QUIRKS! Like HeroAca!!
I’m joking
Yep. I can't wait to go to Japan... on holiday. But from what I hear, I'm very glad I don't have to live and work there.
When I went, I found myself uttering the phrase "just like back home" to myself a lot. It's almost as if people are just people or something.
@@Flip_91FTW I personally love working here lol
@@suckkmycandles
I'm glad you do!
Honestly when I first started getting an interest in Japanese culture and language and history I thought about working there too but then that's when I heard about the working culture and how some Japanese are almost literally working themselves to death. And that's sad.
That's when I realised that it's not perfect and for me personally I'm happy to experience it as a tourist (plus I hear summers over there are brutal lol 40 degrees with that humidity?!)
I've been waiting for years for this video Yuta. Thanks!
@Yorshka and we will make it a national holiday. \s
@Yorshka 🤣😂 hahaha. But also I'm proud of my country's flag :).
@@Gpurezza fuck Merkel!!!!
sure germanboo
hmmm go watch filthy franks video its the harsher one
I'm interested in Japan to the point that I want to learn the language as well as possible and visit the country. But a weeaboo? Don't think so. I have serious reservations about the Japanese work ethic, for example.
Weebs dont even try to learn the language properly sooo
Same here
Haha weeaboo
Shut up weeb, the more you fight it the worse it is. We're all weebs and that's that.
@@rRekko Would it help if I admitted to liking schoolgirls in sailor suits? 😆
Weeaboos are the type of people who go to Japan and wonder where the subtitles are and that all of Japan is like anime lol 😁
Classic
A straight up weeaboo
Stupid weebs think there are subs only smart weebs know reality is different
Papa Franku;)
ZA WARDO
You're on the right lines but there's a little bit more to it. When we talk about an actual weeaboo we're talking about someone who actually rejects their own culture and tries to BECOME Japanese. They act like anime characters, only wear Japanese clothes and cosplay, refuse to speak their own language and keep speaking in broken Japanese, say "itadakimasu!!" before eating, and yeah. They basically caricaturise Japanese culture so much that they disrespect the culture and look like a freak to both westerners and actual Japanese people. It's not quite the same as a gaijin hunter but they will definitely try to collect Japanese "friends" like you said. They act like maid cafe girls, basically.
Edit: To demonstrate what I mean, there was a time on the internet when they'd add "desu" to the end of all of their English sentences. It was torture.
I'm brazilian. The day I'll say 'itadakimasu' before lunch or dinner, I'll search a Doctor.
Yeah, that is kinda what weeaboo meant to me originally. Someone who takes it wayyy too far. I say arigato occasionally. But I also say gracias, merci and salamat too.
@@AceMoonshot thank you desuuu *^-^*
@@EdgarGuediguian "Itadakimasu" is like saying "bon appetit"
@@VoyageOne1 I thought that itadakimas has a very different meaning from bon appetit.
That paradise comment threw me for a loop, I never imagined anyone would say that.
Yeah I just got to that when I saw your comment and really have to agree with you.
Lol yeah I've been called that simply because I'm interested in the Japanese culture. Some people just use it loosely and it's just another way of calling people "nerds" or whatever.
this
@1234 you're a moron if you think that really helps anyone (see what i did there)
1234
I'm sorry, what? My man, there was never a racial connotation to the term 'weeb.' I have no idea where you got that from.
I just call myself a weeb too, lmao
So be honest, where did your interest in Japan culture come from?
"I have real friends, by the way."
I corpsed.
I corpsed is hilarious 😂😂😂
I am still forever impressed by your amazing English skills! The beauty of bilingual.
Yuta: "If you don't have a life, get one. Right, Kyuubee?"
Kyuubee: "Yeah! And if you want a life with a wish, contract with me! I can make your wish come true ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼"
Bruh..
Everybody gangsta till the weeb busts out an 👁〰️👁
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pochita?
Yuta: I have real friends.
Kyuubey: Good to know. Where do they live?
"If you dont have friends you can always learn Japanese with me"
I think that's the pitfall lmfao XD
Haha! I was going to bring up gaijin-hunters, too! I used to be a weeb and it was actually living in Japan that woke me up. Between learning about what Japan and Japanese people really are and being given special/weird treatment by gaijin hunter types, I graduated from my weebiness. And yes, I think a huge part of it was I was young.
Same, when I was young I was very weeby, so cringy man
"used to" not sure I would agree lol. Love your channel!
You still have some anime profile pic, so you're still a weeb
"If you dont have any friends, you can learn Japanese"
Nice ad twist Yuta San.
Congrats on hitting 666,000 subscribers!
I love Japanese culture (and generally Eastern Asian cultures) since I was 12 but it all started because of history (Age of Empires, to be more precise). Thankfully I started discovering all aspects of Japan, including historically and socially controversial topics. Anime and manga came later for me.
I think I was an OG weeaboo back in my college days before the term "weeaboo" was even coined. Eventually, I moved on to other interests, but in the past, a few years my interest in Japan was rekindled. I hope that I now have a more developed a more mature, balanced and nuanced point of view.
A Thinkpad, I see you are a man of culture, Yuta.
Don't befriended kyubei, yuta. It's a trap.
UwU
Weeb Ygg
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_Did somebody say "trap"_
I think many people mix up the term "weeaboo" with the term "otaku".
I traveled to Japan, because I love Japan's unique culture (food, language, anime, architecture,...), but besides the many great things there, it has also a few downsides, for instance the relatively bad working conditions, the lack of space and overcrowded cities, the possibility of environmental disasters and the lack of non artificial fruit juice.
Made from genuine artificial fruit? Shades of Carmen Miranda!
Non artificial fruit juice?
2:58
General Grievous: A fine addition to my collection.
I'm headed to Japan for the first time at the end of this week. Pretty stoked for the experience and hoping to meet some cool folks.
I was a weeb in middle school and wanted to be Japanese but once high school came and I appreciated my culture and who I was, I see anime different. Now I read mainly manga and get great inspiration bc I’m an animation major ❤️
Edit: Thank y’all for the likes🤤
I feel like being a weeaboo is a phase because when I was a tween I went through that same exact experence
Oh i wish i was japanese but for other reasons than liking them, hell i wish i was from any first-world country, japan is just my favorite culture-wise, while USA is my fav job-wise. What i grew out of when i turned 19 was the dream of wanting to study over there.
Eventually, the illusion fades. It's devastating to some, like meeting the person who plays your favorite TV character and finding out he's nothing like the character on the show.
The analogy goes even further, sadly, because there's an entire part of the Japanese tourist industry dedicated to catering to weebs. It's just like an actor pretending to be like the character in real life so that people to will pay him for overpriced signatures and selfies with you, at a convention that's run by people who clearly only put the event on for a quick buck.
America doesn’t have culture
@@whydoihavetousemyrealname305 America has many cultures
Yuta dishes out the most polite burn I've ever seen.
By the end of this year, I will have been there twice. I have researched Japan over the last 6 years (since my 16th), and learned Japanese (though I still struggle with my girlfriend of over a year by now) and despite it's flaws and problems I would still want to live there
if you feel you can adapt and learn to survive in their enviroment, then go for it
@@04liverydesign7 The worst thing I did there was not take off my shoes when I entered the hotel. All eyes are immediately on you. I feel like I can deal with 40+ hour work week since I get so much more to do in Japan
This is one of the videos that made me finally subscribe to our channel
Hey, Yuta. It was a very informative video. I am sure that people that saw the video will realise the real problem.
Objectifying people is very wrong, because this way we do not look at how people really are, and also because I think we hurt those people that we objectify.
And what you said about Japan is very true. No country is perfect. An example would Be my country(Romania) which is viewed as a bad country(the opposite of japan tbh, thats my view) and like many people say about our country that we live in a cave or something. Of course, our countries are not perfect, but that doesnt mean we should consider some countries perfect or caves.
Do not worry Yuta, your voice will be heard and I think those weeaboos will stop when everyone will show that that they arent liked.
As a post scriptum I can say:People are going to hate some things anyway. So just let them Be.
This is my FAVORITE comment out of all of this cause of how true it is. Like when I visited Spain I was even a bit wary of calling myself American
(Yet I got mistaken for Italian and Kenyan a few times) it’s just because I don’t wanna be labeled as the stereotype of an “American tourists” and the connotation that comes with that. It’s really sad how some stereotype so many countries and think that all people there are like the same. Especially with Japan and Korea where some ppl think it’s all about Kpop or anime. And don’t get me started on some ppl’s “Asian fetishes” it makes uncomfortable just thinking about it. I just wish everyone could just have love for something that wasn’t borderline obsessive. I started learning Japanese and about Japan because they language is pretty difficult and it sounds pretty to me. I learned Spanish because I learned since I was a kid and it’s also a beautiful language like all the other languages of the world! I wish we could just start off with a clean slate when learning about something while still being very respectful ♥️. (I’m sorry I’m a bit of a rambler)
@@britmicheyeager5995 It's easy to make them a fetish when most of what you see in media are attractive examples. Someone on my hotel room floor even gathered people around for an impromptu orientation just to shatter some illusions of that before some people went forth to make asses of themselves.
@@britmicheyeager5995 No offense, but are there actually a lot of land whales and ignorant karen?
@1234 Not even that crazy, when you realize Japan has a genre of entertainment called "fan service" which is kinda putting the cart before the horse when it comes to entertainment
You have excellent english both written and spoken. You have helped inspire me and I hope that someday I can speak and read Japanese. I have been studying for a few months and I plan to stick with it.
"I have real friends btw" 😂😂😂
I was like this when I was in my childhood and early teens, before "weeaboo" was even a word. As you said, learning about the good and bad and acquiring various life experiences encourage people to grow out of it.
I feel like there has been quite a huge misconception over the years about the term weeaboo, there is nothing wrong with enjoying or appreciating things from other cultures, some japanase people do this a lot with american or european content or culture, but they also tend to have a very different perspective about then, in the end as long you don't get this to unhealthy levels of thinking that is a perfect utopia and neglect the rest or your own one because of it is fine.
H4rdlex well you know I don’t want to be Japanese and I’m not forgetting about my culture I’m just interested in anime and Japan, but yeah I guess that’s unhealthy?
Heck, weebs and normies will call weebs weebs. I for one just don't get why liking anime classifies the person as a weeb, it isn't that different from the normies liking their daily dose of cartoon.
I just came back from osaka last week and I literally had the best time of my life! I just apreciate the country, I don‘t think I‘m a weeabo tho
I'm going to osaka lol
I feel like the thing about weaboos having a bad reaction when coming to Japan is quite common. it happens a lot with people who have an idealised version of things in their head. Like when people from asia (I think famously Japanese people but I'm not sure) going to Paris with an idealised paradise in their head and then seeing the reality causes them to have emotional breakdowns…
on another note, as a westerner living in asia, I'm surprised by how many other Westerners I meet who very much reject other foreigners and kind of pretend to be Asian, instead of you know just immersing themselves and learning the language and living like a normal person. it feels like every conversation with them is about how they're basically Asian now and they miss nothing about their original country, even reject it… in my experience, these people don't often settle down for very long in one place lol. it's an obsession, trying to fill some void or something I guess
From a very young age, I've always been fascinated with Japan. My first exposures to Japan were through pop culture, which painted a picture of the country as- well basically if Kabukicho were a whole country- which is a pretty common trope I think. Like how Texas is portrayed as the setting of a spaghetti western, even though most of the state is rolling grasslands and most of the people live in a few dense cities. So even at a young age I was aware that a lot of the cultural perception of Japan would be this caricature based on a few grains of reality. But even with that level of tempered expectations, I remained enamored with Japan, its culture, its language, and yes its people. What always interested me was the stark differences between the Japan I learned about through pop culture, and later through legitimate study into the actual state and history of Japan, and the United States I grew up in. Of course most countries are very different from each other, but I'd sort of latched onto Japan through this whole fascination. I have sort of an obsessive personality, so it's not surprising that, at times, I did get obsessed with Japan, and it's probably fair to say I was, at least at some points and by some definitions, a weeaboo.
When I finally visited Japan, it was exactly what I expected after trying to learn about the real Japan and challenge preconceived notions that pop culture had given me. All of the amazing things I experienced- and all of the inconveniences I dealt with- were just like I'd read and heard and seen about, which made Japan a very easy place to navigate as a foreigner, but if I hadn't taken the time to try and understand the real Japan, I don't think it would have been as easy or even as fulfilling. Perhaps contrary to your example, visiting Japan and seeing its good and its bad for myself, made me love it even more. It solidified from a land on the other side of the world which I'd only heard of through myth and urban legend, to a real, tangible place full of real people living just as complex lives as mine. Ever since I got back home, I've wanted to go back, even if there are a lot of things that weren't as nice as they are here. (For one thing, as many air conditioners as you have in Japan, they sure don't seem to work as well as the ones in Texas; and I really didn't like having to carry and fumble through cash when credit/debit cards are so convenient)
All in all, I'd say you're right: there are healthy and unhealthy ways of thinking about Japan- or anything really- and if you can apply a healthy mindset to Japan, its people, and its culture, and try to understand them individually in a meaningful way, you can have amazing experiences and meet friends which will stay with you for a lifetime. Now, to get better at speaking Japanese before I go back, so I only _mostly_ embarrass myself, instead of thoroughly embarrassing myself.
"Where there are people, there are problems." ~ Yuta
You speak English very well. You actually speak it better than most people I encounter on a daily basis.
Life becomes "real" rather quickly once you move somewhere different. Whether you move within your own, or another culture.
Wdym by real?
Thank you for including jokes. It makes the video more enjoyable.
I like his dry delivery too.
"....I have real friends btw"
- Yuta 2019
This is your best articulated video so far. It is the best explanation of how obsessed people are.
Look I really like Japan, but I don't wanna become Japanese like I'm not that type of Weeaboo. That's a bit weird in my opinion
You're just curious. Not obsessed.
Typical comment by a typical Indian boy
@@AngirsonLopez lol you talking about me? Btw I'm British Bengali 🤦♂️
@@MrBoDiggety true that, I ain't obsessed
@@Adil-qx7yr bro there's nothing wrong with that
Completely unrelated, but this video is structured like a philosophy essay: Introduction of the topic, definition of the terms used, specification what the video is NOT about, and then talking about what it IS about. :') Well done, Yuta. :p
This video is so funny!
Love the Kyubei plushie. Madoka Magica is one of my absolute favorite anime.
Still sneaking in the advertisment for your email group like a boss I see. XD
Must always have the plug lol and this time he did it almost a the beginning haha.
Awesome take! Totally agree
Nothing wrong with appreciating Japanese culture and entertainment
he literally said that in the video..you only cross over into weeaboo territory when you don’t view japanese people as individuals but as a collective group that’s supposed to play a role of ‘japanese person’ in your life
Great advice, these days you can easily do your own research, a lot of videos and experiences you can digest so you won't have that type of mindset that everything is perfect just because you think so in your mind, you have to look at both sides.
Not sure what is worse:
* People that you are talking about
* Kyubey that is looking at me for the entire video
A team of physicists from the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies in Nanoscience has created the “quantum stabilized atom mirror”, the smoothest surface ever created, however experts agree it is nowhere near as smooth as Yuta's transitions into his Japanese lessons pitch.
nice one
Weeaboos are an interesting breed
Like yourself 😉
Dude u watch his videos ,
I just saw u in some other video about anime
uwu
I would like to diagnose you with weeaboo, but i know in a weeaboos defence he/she will say "i'm not even trying to be japanese so i dont know what are you're talking about" which will make he/she not weeaboo. so the proper term for you would be "some individual who likes japanese animation so much to escape reality"
You get better with your transitions - kinda like LinusTechTips talking about his merch store xD . I know one weeaboo. I am not sure if he is already in the unhealthy stage but he is always sunshine and rainbows when he talks about concerts.
Imagine using the term weeaboo to insult a Japanese person.
1234 imagine ACTUALLY getting triggered over the term weeb.
@@ven7791 please calm down
This was intensely interesting to me, particularly in his analysis of the "objectification" of others; I don't think I've ever heard it stated so clearly and so well. Thanks!
youre a cultured individual if you recognized kyubey immediately
Kyubey is an underappreciated character in Puella Madoka Magica.
BURN IT
Call Homura quick!
You’re the best Yuta!
Oh my goodness, don't tell me you signed a contract with Kyubey! XD
Stfu weeb
@@RestlessWandererOriginal please tell me you are joking, that was a funny sarcastic comment, right?
Yuta, this was a great video and I appreciate you touching on this subject. I don't know if I am a weeabo, but I do think I've been hyper focused on Japan and the idea of living there for the last 3 years. I think maybe I am guilty of objectifying people by their culture In the past. For example, growing up I was fascinated by speakers of Spanish and wanted to make friends with the Mexican people in my neighborhood very much. In the early 90s there was still some social segregation and so many cultures and races pretty much stayed to themselves. In the early 2000s I was able to make friends with a lady from Colombia. I became close with her and her family. I was very much interested in speaking Spanish only and learning more about their culture but she wasn't all that interested in speaking Spanish ONLY with me and just wanted to be my friend. We grew apart and I found out later that she was very close friends with other non Spanish speaking people. They were friends not because they could speak Spanish with her, but because they found other things in common like work or going out for fun. I don't know why this, is but I have always found cultures OTHER than American culture very interesting and I become very focused on learning their culture and language to the point of maybe even wanted to be accepted as an honorary____(fill in the blank). I'm not sure why this is and I really hope that I am not transferring my past experiences to Japan. As far as weeabos, I just feel like there is such an appreciation for a culture that some people really just want to have a fully immersion experience and be a part of the culture not just see it from the outside. But objectified is definitely something that I would not like to b. As a black woman. I have dated interracially and feel very uncomfortable when race is the first thing that comes up in the conversation as if the person I'm dating is trying to prove something by showing how open-minded they are or how they only like black women. As if it's a fetish. I'd just like to be able to date someone with race being the farthest thing from their mind or at least not the first thing we have to talk about. So I hear where you're coming from. but what about the person that truly feels like they are meant to be a part of a culture that is not their own? I have read about this but I don't remember what the term is called. When you sincerely and truly identify with a culture or race that is not your original culture. I have felt that way about Japan and Asia since I was little. But you make really good points that whatever my view of Japan is as an outsider may not line up with true Japan. not only would that be a huge disappointment for me, but it's totally unfair to put those expectations on Japanese people or Japan as a whole. So what is the solution? I am still very much enamored with the idea of living in Japan because of (what I believe to be) it being the perfect place to live as far as my personality and belief system. Born and raised in America, there are so many things that I don't agree with in our society. I just feel like I would be much more comfortable there in Japan. Even if I am always seen as an outsider. I don't want to be a weeaboo. I just want to be seen as someone who truly respects and admires Japan. Is there a better word? Is Japanophile considered derogatory?
bro im a weeaboo so i better not get offended or ill go Super Saiyan.
Chul Teet same
Your English language skills are excellent, Yuta. Good job.
Idt its wrong for people to be interested in a culture other than your own (learn their language, wear their clothing, eat their food, etc).
But dont claim you speak a language that you dont, or only talk to a person about their race...
Nope. You wear their clothing, the Twitter Ninja's attack!
Note: You can say you understand a language a little. As a truth, I can understand a little bit of Japanese because my former Japanese teacher would speak to me in half English, Half Japanese. That doesn’t mean I can speak it, and it doesn’t mean I don’t need subtitles anymore to watch Japanese film or shows in the language. I can if I really have to, but I’m terrible at it, therefore I really can’t. But if I were stuck in an emergency situation with a Japanese person. I could use the little speaking skills I have to speak with the Japanese person (though in a situation like that, hand motions and context clues would probably be more helpful. I was just using that as an example to illustrate my point).
I think that’s fair. I used to be conversational, but I’d never claim I was fluent. Heck, if something weird happened, like my car broke down, or something that doesn’t typically happen were to occur, I wouldn’t know how to say anything about it in Japanese, even when I spoke it regularly. (Wonder what “power steering fluid” is in Japanese. 😂) I helped translate the menu at a restaurant I worked at for Japanese businessmen that came by all the time, but that’s mainly it. The rest was “anime” talk, which we all know is not how people actually speak in Japan. Lol... At least... I hope we all know that here. 😬
@Cannabis Dreams why do i feel like youre actually being serious lmao
I'm in love with your rationality...
When I hear the word weeaboo I think of a person that is trying to be a part of the Japanese culture so much it's actually offensive
As an American, I find it to be similar to the ways in which people from different places in the world think America is "so cool" and that sometimes is their sole reason for wanting to come visit here/study/live. It's natural to be interested in a different place - I get it. Someone else in the comments mentioned escapism. That's definitely a part of it. This idea that the grass is always greener somewhere else is something that often sits at the root of a lot of people's wanderlust. You just have to be sure that, like Yuta said, you don't begin to objectify the inhabitants of your country of interest.
I’m Asian and it’s annoying when weeaboos think you’re Japanese/ Korean but once you tell them about Philippines and Southeast Asia, they shut you down. Sometimes I get jealous that I’m not Japanese but this isn’t the way. Japanese are normal people too but weeaboos ruin it . Can we just talk to the person for the person not their nationality?
Great video by the way!
I know a weeboo who literally doesn't know what the word Bushido means... ! And claims to be fan of Japan and to speak the language
I think I'm lucky I came across anime and such in my late teens, as I still have that childish "obsession" and definitely don't pay attention to the negatives when it comes to Japan as much as I probably should, but I'm also now old enough to proceed with caution. I'd never drop everything to move to Japan, as a younger weeb might, but I would still love to experience it for all I can.
Getting treated as a Japanese person rather than just a person has to suck, I hope I never find myself treating someone like that.
I've been interested in Japan and I'm currently learning Japanese, I like Japanese things but I wouldn't call myself a weeaboo, I'd say I'm more of a weeb.
I'd like to have a Japanese friend but not just because they're Japanese, that's insensitive. But it would be nice to have a language partner as well as a friend :3
Weebs idolize Japan due to anime references and believe everything they see on anime is the same as reality when it’s completely not, you liking japan itself doesn’t consider a weeb. It’s the same thing with Korea lol... A guy likes Korea but doesn’t like Kpop and still gets called a Koreanboos
@@coffeelink943 Oh ok, yeah you're completely right. I guess weeaboos forget that they're watching a cartoon lol.
And I guess weeb is still too strong of a word for me then. I mean, I do watch anime from time to time, like very very occasionly. But I definitely don't idolize Japan because of anime, i wouldn't really say I idolize Japan in any way, but ya know I just like Japan. Most people still call me a weeaboo for saying that though...
And that's interesting, Koreanboo? I've personally never heard of that. Makes sense though.
I like that video that you just made I'm thinking about traveling 2020 and I'm learning more about Japan on documentaries and stuff to Japan
"we have a life. And if you don't, get one." LMFAO I'M DEAD 💀
Nice video yuta!
I have watched several channels about Japan, and those don’t talk pretty well about your country.
In fact I even got scary about going because those channels made japan look like a country with a lot of “psychopaths” who don’t even care about people. Like, if you went there you would probably be used by Japanese to learn English but if you got any real problem you would be alone.
While you say you have encountered people who idealizes it, I have encountered the opposite.
Yuta :"Stop idolizing Japan and it's people... By learning Japanese with me".
I have a few weeb friends. One actually moved there and stayed for almost three years. Then she came back to the US saying the experience was pretty stressful and that she would never live there again. 😆
I think the problems in Japan are in some ways more interesting topics of discussion than all the things great about the country.
Like the extremely stressful work-enviroment that seems to take a heavy toll in Japanese people. Or the culturally ingrained collectivist mindset that many Japanese people seem to have.
Or how about the extreme politeness that make many Japanese people avoid stating their true opinions and feelings.
It's interesting in several ways. Partly to explore where these phenomena originate from in history. But also because it creates an opportunity ro discuss possible solutions and possibly help some people to break out of behaviours that may cause them more harm than good.
I think Japanese people deserve more free time and that they don't always feel so strongly obligated to sacrifice their lives as dutiful salarymen.
I think they could form very great relationships if some of them spoke more honestly amongst eachother instead of worrying too much about how others might feel embarassed by their honest opinions.
Might seem arrogant of me to some. But I'd like to defend my arrogance by saying that I hold these views with good intentions.
Except that those are the reasons why I like it; because of the work ethic, collectivist society, valuing efficiency above your own needs. I don't want to see japan westernized
@@corvettefunstudios: So basically you prefer that people live and die as worker ants... Not very charitable of you.
It's got nothing to do with "westernization". There are other asian countries where the working life is far less stressful and sacrificial compared to Japan.
It's also proven through a lot of studies that excessive implicitly mandatory overtime does not make the work more efficient, but actually makes the workers less efficient. Some of those studies have even been conducted in Japan. So they are aware of the issue, but it takes time to change a deeply ingrained cultural mindset.
@@sevenproxies4255 Working inefficiently is not what I value by 'work ethic'. I support Abe's agenda to curb the insane working hours in corporations.
Thing is, it has to change from within though. I know the consequences of the west trying to make things better in my own country and even though they mean well, and I (and pretty much anyone) agrees is the best way to live, it tends to not work with time if the people within don't fight for it themselves to better their own countries and culture (as they don't truly understand change if they don't think on their own and fight for it - if that makes any sense).
I think what happened to Japan is in part fault of trying to fit in to western culture without having the western mindset in the first place, so that created a new issue (if not bigger). Westerns live and understand freedom and individuality in ways other places don't, because not only they created it, they faught for it, they GET IT, that's them! So when, for example, capitalism arrived in Japan, it got mixed up with their own culture (that had nothing to do with individuality and freedom), wich then created a slave country basically. It didn't walked to 'progress', it _jumped_ , and when you jump some grades without having really understood and worked to pass, it becomes a mess later on.
What I kind of mean is: cultures, as well as people, need to grow on their own time, by their own means, or else they become dependable and/or problematic. Though I'm not necessarily against mendling in (heck, I'm grateful), I'm just saying it does bring different type of issues instead of a final solution, since the final solution only works when a country does it themselves (at this point I'm just reaally repeating myself sorry ._.)
@@corvettefunstudios: No you probably don't but that's what the current Japanese "work ethic" produce. Most employees feel that they are obliged to stay after working hours if the boss hasn't gone home for the day for example.
And the amount of overtime that employers ask their employees for is through the roof.
Japan also has one of the lowest amount of annual vacation days in the industrialized world.
People's natural coping mechanisms with this is not to work lore efficiently, but less efficiently. The natural assumption is that "oh I'll spend so many hours today at work today anyway, so nothing's going to change if I work a little slow and take the extra time"
But when you give people a more decent level of free time and try to move away from using overtime as an option, people are more incentivized to use their time at work more efficiently.
It's a good thing i Prime Minister Abe is looking into the matter and try to move the country away from this excessive overtime and obligation culture in the work place.
I think it has to come from the government ordering the market to cut down on overtime, because that way it will be a more level playingfield on the market and all companies will have to slow down the workpace accordingly (or rather, certain employers can't legally try to maintain the stressful pace just to get competition advantages over the others)
And you did it!!! I love how you boarded the topic, though I think there is a lot to be said about it
I should rewatch that Filthy Frank video again...
I was kind of thinking the exact same thing.
WEEABOO JONES!
I hate filthy frank he is and unfunny jerk
That thumbnail is great! 😆😆
#WeebPride! ✊
I've been to Japan once, about 10 years ago, and I really liked my stay and I would visit again. I do not idolize the country at all. I just really like it because it's so different. I do not think of Japan as a paradise or as the best country in the world. Just like any country, Japan does have its flaws. As much as it would be nice to live in Japan, I wouldn't. Visiting is one thing, which I would do again in a heart beat, but staying and having to be part of the country's system isn't something I would do (unless I was capable). Oh, and yes, I do also watch anime and it did get me interested in learning about Japan. But I do not like Japan because of anime. I like Japan for what it is. A beautiful country with a fascinating culture. I have worked with a Japanese man before here in Canada, but I never once asked him about Japan. Maybe I would have asked him for some clarifications on certain topics I'm not too familiar with or sure about, but that would be it.
Very close to perfect imo if we exclude the social problems
If you really like/love someone or something .. you loved it even if its not perfect that’s true love
00:21 There's gonna be someone in the comments saying "All words are made up"
Wait...
Welp. I'm glad I didn't need to be that person, yet somehow disappointed
I thought exactly the same xD
I legitimately thought that ..
wise words from a wise man, appreciate your informative videos yuta san
Every word is a made up word, actualy. :B
thor
Yeah pretty much, over thousands of years ago
@Yuta, your new video format is refreshing.
We're all weebs here. There's nothing wrong with being a weeb as long as you don't act obnoxious.
I really like the way you put things...so crystal clear and easy to understand with a great sense of humour. Love your rational and practical mind-set. Not to mention your English accent is amazing as well. I wish there were more people like you but sadly most of them are superficial and obnoxious out there lacking any substance! (Ofcourse I'm no one to judge anyone...as this world is full of diversity).
*Kaiju fans eating popcorn while watching this video
I'm a little bit weeaboo because I only interest in Japan but not much about the anime's or japan trends but im focusing more on the food, history and culture.