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Also how does referring to someone as Otaku make you a weaboo. I come from a culture where referring to them as Otakus is perfectly acceptable. There's no weaboo intent behind it. It's just an accepted term in DK and nothing more, which is why I used it. Im just used to it. Seriously, don't get caught up in terms.
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Okay, I'm just being a term nazi here. Even so, the word otaku has basically the same meaning as the word nerd. In Japan you get military otaku, music otaku, anime otaku, video game otaku, figure otaku etc. it's just a pretty narrow and stigmatizing use for a pretty broad term.
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Anyway I'm also referring to things such as making the peace sign. Many people these days will call you a weaboo if you do it, which kind of annoys me. Cos the Peace sign isn't exclusive to Japan. Same with a lot of things.
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The V sign is Japanese what? I've watched many anime, keep generally up to date with Japanese pop culture and I have never heard that. Maybe Denmark is just super weird when it comes to Japan?
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THe clothing, the culture traits... it's just a huge ping pong between nations. Japan goes overboard with their style, which they initially adapted from the west, and then the west adapt that as well and make it 'western' and so on.
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Ah, now see, if people went around wearing yukata, sitting in the seiza and maintaining ornamental flower gardens
then you could make an argument for imitation of Japanese culture. Wearing Naruto headbands, cosplaying and insipidly inserting idioms like 'kawaii' and 'desu' into everyday speech is imitating fiction, not culture.
But yeah, to get back to the original point I didn't imply you were fetishizing anything. I just think your question is strange. To take my previous example, when white youths strut around like gorillas and call eachother 'homie' they're mimicing
black gang culture rather than black culture. So yeah.
