The following Article is not written by me. It comes from a page at: shatteredreality.net by some miserable coot who has it out for the world, and seems to use cussing and blaspheming as a second language, unfortunately. Yes, I looked at enough of the other stuff on her site to get that impression loud and clear. The point she was trying to make about otaku can be done without that. So, cuss-free edition coming right up!

-Indianna

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f.e.a.t.u.r.e.s
(gomen ne, Otaku-sama)
11.10.00

There is one thing in the world that annoys me more than anything else.

White teenagers living in America who think they're Japanese.

I don't have a problem with anime. Anime is cool, especially in the fluidity of the animation and the huge influx of hot cartoon guys. I happen to be a fan of Gundam Wing.

(Comment from Indianna: *tcks* though I agree with her on the whites trying to be Japanese thing, I don't agree with her enthusiasm for the 'hot cartoon guys' That's the primary reason anime fangirls are such drips in the first place. They drool, swoon, fight over those stupid cartoon guys to where it gets utterly petty and beyond ridiculous. Puh-leeze! -end of comment)

Oh wait, I forgot, the American translation doesn't count as real anime.

It's not the anime that annoys me. It's the overzealous otaku. Firstly, "otaku" is a SLANDEROUS TERM IN JAPAN. These people don't realize that they're INSULTING THEMSELVES by calling themselves this name. And for those of you who don't know, "otaku" are huge anime fans.

Ok, so the anime fans don't bug me *too* much. I know a couple, they're all cool.

What bugs me are the otaku who are completely obsessed with Japan in general. You know the ones I'm talking about, the ones who slip words of Japanese in with their English, like ending a sentence with "ne?" or apologizing to you by saying "Gomen ne!"

IF ENGLISH WAS YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE, THEN SPEAK ENGLISH!

Surely, I understand some Japanese. I know what they're saying to me. But it peeveS ME OFF TO NO END! For Pete's sakes, I think GERMAN is cool, but do I slip words of German in with my English?! I think Latin was the greatest language there ever was, but I DON'T SPEAK LATIN TO PREDOMINATLEY ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE!

And it gets even worse with those rare few who GET THE SUrGERY TO MAKE THEMSELVES *LOOK* JAPANESE! What the HEx is WRONG with you people?

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(Comment from Indianna: WHA!? People actually do that!? *eyes wide and rolling* Sheesh! that's unbelievable! -End comment.)
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What, your home country isn't GOOD ENOUGH?! Are you SO obsessed that you have to CHANGE YOUR ETHNICITY?! We oppressed African Americans living in America for HUNDREDS OF YEARS, and NONE of them went and tried to make themselves look WHITE! WHAT THE HEx ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?!

Please people, cut me some slack. I'm Irish. I live in America. I wear teeshirts and jeans like every normal American teenager. I don't harp on any other cultures because they're "hip" and/or "trendy". Leave the Japenese culture to the people in Japan, or the Japanese living in any other country. And for gosh sakes, STOP SPEAKING FlippING JAPANESE TO ME!
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