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Post by makola on Jul 24, 2013 9:07:36 GMT -8
I think it's sad that if you're asian, it's generally more accepted to like anime. Whereas it's different for everyone else
NOW THAT AIN'T RIGHT.
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Post by harusame!! on Jul 24, 2013 9:16:59 GMT -8
It was weird. In my school, it didn't matter if you liked anime or manga. But people had the idea the only thing out there were Naruto and Dragonball(Z). I liked it before but when I started getting into One Piece, everyone would be glaring me down like a disease. I was the only kid there or watched a vast array of things. Eventually I got some people on board with me, but strangely enough, most of those people were people I didn't like >.> Finally in the end, there was one dude who did like One Piece. I guess that one dude being there made all the difference, and after that we were spanning the school with arguments about One Piece xD
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Post by beekeeper on Jul 24, 2013 9:26:48 GMT -8
I didn't really get into anime and manga until high school, and since I guess my school was pretty multicultural, nobody ever gave me shit for it. I mean everyone thought I was some weird asian lesbian or something, so I was weird to start with. It was more that not very many of my friends, with the exception of the few that I coerced into watching a few shows, were into animanga at all. Other than that, nobody really cared what I did or didn't like, though most people think I'm Chinese so maybe that had something to do with it, idk.
My school did have a very large Asian population though. Mostly south Asian, but still.
And funnily enough, once I hit college, it seems like everybody is into animanga now. I don't know if it's just because everyone stopped giving a shit and just started to openly like what they liked or what, but a lot of people around my age, from school and work and etc., have all been into anime and manga, which is pretty cool.
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I'VE BEEN A MENACE FOR THE LONGEST
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Post by WILLOW on Jul 24, 2013 11:07:31 GMT -8
i grew up in canada and i like to think that the stereotype of canada being a country with 'nice people' is pretty true. people got bullied yeah, but not for interests. at least not in my area.
no one gets bullied or discouraged here, it's basically "you like that? cool, i don't really like it though."
if you do, however, start insulting someone else's interests you will get hurt, badly.
all of this is just speculation from what i've seen/heard though. i have never been bullied for my interests, and none of my friends have either. idk, animanga is pretty popular here so it's not a big surprise to find out someone likes it?
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Post by Pool Boy on Jul 24, 2013 11:28:19 GMT -8
I grew up in a city but not a BIG city. It's a non-boston city in massachusetts. And I grew up with what Harusame said: being glared down at like a disease. In middle school, I was more open about it than I ever was. I have an excerpt from my diary to show how kids were (this was eighth grade, I was 13) (pls excuse any political-incorrectness - my best friend kayla was puerto rican and we loved that shit together): I was talking to Jackie and Michael when the subject of my Japanese Bat Mitzvah came into play. Michael was like "Hey, what was your Japanese(-themed) Bat Mitzvah like?" when the skater boy band interrupted. They were like "Japanese Bat-Mitzvah? That's stupid!" But then, I took control. I was like "Oh! It was awesome! The food was delicious and there were these big goldfish (and I showed the size with my hands) in these cute little pools. And we had Pina Coladas!" I really showed them! Ha ha! I think they like disagreeing with me. That's the second time they said something I liked was stupid and they ended up changing they're minds. The first time was when I was showing Kayla the one, two step song and the skater boys all of a sudden were like "What are you listening to? Oh! That's such as stupid song!" I was like "No way! This song ROCKS!" and Kayla gave them the evil eye becuase its her favorite song.Then, they just started talking to themselves like they were hurt. I could hear them saying "Who ever heard of a white girl listening to that stuff?" I felt ghetto proud of myself then.
It got to be really too hard to stand up to in high school, and I wanted to fit in so much more then, so I completely stopped being open about it. I didn't want to have to bother fighting for it whenever I might randomly drop some show name or Japanese word. There was that lunch table in high school where the people who liked playing gameboy during breaks and who read and drew manga style would cluster to, and they all had bad body odor. I was one of the little shits that looked down at them too. No one wanted to be associated with them in the slightest. Furthermore, our school library never carried manga, and when the city public began to, I was literally shocked that it had been accepted there.
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Post by REMII on Jul 24, 2013 11:28:41 GMT -8
lol i had a situation similar to skull where drawing in an anime style made me ~*~*the best drawer~*~* throughout middle school and high school despite the fact it was super terrible and ugh just so bad. so the stigma never really affected me growing up, my town's kinda small and the high school is close knit so nobody really gave each other shit for what they liked and animanga was still pretty popular with everyone. even the art teacher thought it was cool and encouraged us to draw any style we wanted, i grew up in a very 'animanga friendly' environment and always had a couple friends who were at least a little interested in it and a mom who encouraged it because she's annoyingly into me doing art. people were sometimes brats about it but thats more of a 'oh you like that crap??' and making faces type of deal than actual bullying.
the closest i got to feeling bad was some girl asking for my drawings all the time throughout the school year and then balling them up and ripping them and shoving them in my locker before summer started lmfao. i think that had less to do with animanga and more to do with her being a horrible person!? but yeah i dunno it must really depend on where you live, i'm sad to hear so many of you had to deal with people being assholes because of things you like!!!!! that's beyondddd ridiculous and shouldn't be tolerated. )))):
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Post by dream eater on Jul 24, 2013 11:56:10 GMT -8
I think it's sad that if you're asian, it's generally more accepted to like anime. Whereas it's different for everyone else NOW THAT AIN'T RIGHT. Lol yep smoooth sailing for me down in my small , ignorant little town.
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Post by FURY ROAD on Jul 24, 2013 13:09:10 GMT -8
Definitely experienced it in middle school, and even now I guess (though that's more in my head than anything). Middle school in general was rough, but I think it got loose that I was into naruto and all that at one point, and I wouldn't say I was shunned for it (because i was already considered one of the weird kids that deserved to be made fun of 24/7 qq), but it definitely didn't help the reputation I was trying to pull away from in grades 6+. I just sort of stopped mentioning it to people, why would I talk to them anyway, you know? Me and my friend would talk about naruto and watch it together every saturday night, either over the phone or sleepovers or something. she started watching death note and all of those late-night things though, i was never really interested.
even now though, i won't mention it to anyone unless i know they're into the same stuff. don't mention it around my family either, but that could just be paranoia or some shit (ex: watching attack on titan in full living room, hide in corner with back to wall and avoid anyone being able to see screen). my mom definitely knew about it, hell, she bought me the 587438964 pounds of naruto manga i have lying around in my closet (i have a lot of volumes pls take them from me i don't need them) but she never really cared, so. different with parents i guess.
sorry, i'm not good at holding a thought. i absolutely hate to see the huge whatdidyoucallthem, weeabababowetjsd somethings, mainly because i feel like they're the reason i'm so uncomfortable sharing what i like (the really over the top ones, that comment wasn't meant to offend, and i probably shouldn't say hate, but take what i say with a grain of salt pls).
tl;dr: i'll say hi and have a conversation if i see someone watching/reading, i'll roll my eyes if they're tryharding.
tl;dr2: i was raised around the "you can like it, just not in front of us" attitude and it's rubbed off.
aka i'm a bad person and a hypocrite sue me
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Post by birdie ♕ on Jul 24, 2013 14:13:27 GMT -8
dude i just got into anime and some of my guy friends joke like "oh i bet you're really into hentai"
and just the fact that they know what it is i'm like yo stfu idiots
** it doesn't help yoko is like my waifu and 80% of her art is hentai unfortunately
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gloria luciferis in excelsis
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Post by THE LEVIATHAN on Jul 24, 2013 14:31:21 GMT -8
the closest i got to feeling bad was some girl asking for my drawings all the time throughout the school year and then balling them up and ripping them and shoving them in my locker before summer started lmfao. I would have whooped her dumb ass. Touching people's art just isn't right. Edit:Regarding asians liking anime though - I'm not sure if it's accepted more than a non-asian family? Maybe non-POC may expect Asians to like anime but when I studied abroad in Japan, I was surprised (and disappointed) that my host family didn't really like anime. It's the same way we see cartoons. It was kinda like "okay, they're cool but most of it is for kids." And my host mom didn't let her children watch a lot of anime or read a lot of manga because she wanted them to study hard. But I should mention that they were both forced to go to juku (cram school) and their parents were strict regarding their education. I have a lot of asian friends (not all east asian but still asian) and most of them didn't really like anime and if they did, their parents thought it was an "odd" hobby.
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Post by the guru on Jul 24, 2013 14:37:46 GMT -8
I feel like the stigma's only there for people who are obnoxious about it. Otherwise, nobody gives a fuck. Also, seems like certain shows are exempt from the stigma. Everybody round my way was into Yu Yu Hakusho and DBZ as a kid.
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Post by milachan ★ on Jul 24, 2013 16:23:31 GMT -8
I-I.. never had a stigma. I didn't even know there was one. Anime here is pretty small-cultured, though it is growing every year, I know from the size of our local convention. I got interested in anime and manga in primary school and kept my interest throughout my life. I even introduced people to it, people who had no idea what it was. I don't think anyone ever bullied me about it, if nothing they always asked what the cute little eyes I was drawing all over everything were.
I.. did not know that this was a thing. O-o
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Post by Pool Boy on Jul 24, 2013 17:34:52 GMT -8
I feel like the stigma's only there for people who are obnoxious about it. Otherwise, nobody gives a fuck. Also, seems like certain shows are exempt from the stigma. Everybody round my way was into Yu Yu Hakusho and DBZ as a kid. I disagree bro, you could be really light-hearted about it, and people still look at you like yr some hentai porn hobbyist. It's the association. Or the stereotype of what animanga fans are. The only Japanese cartoon people somewhat accept where I live is Hello Kitty. Even pokemon has a stigma. Otherwise -- odd looks and unwillingness for people to talk to you. I don't know how to explain it - like this stuff isn't much different from liking american cartoons, but people say, "Oh, you're into that" when they might catch kpop on my ipod. lol, no one liked dbz and yu yu hakushu where i lived except for the asian boy clique in elementary school. and it just seemed to make sense for them? what do i know i was like ten. looking back at it, i think it was a xenophobia that people had when anyone else liked it.
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Post by beekeeper on Jul 24, 2013 17:49:28 GMT -8
but what if you are an hentain porn hobbyiest whats wrong with that huh
ur offending my people, electric
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Post by Pool Boy on Jul 24, 2013 18:12:14 GMT -8
ew ew ew read ahead read ahead read ahead
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