"I want to move to Japan!"

CommandoDude

There was like one or two in my high school.

Vorpy

i have met around.....11. Although my definition may or may not be different than yours.

Khwarizmi

I kind of hate the word "weeaboo", to be honest.  It's one of those words that has a different definition depending on who and what you dislike, and how much you dislike them.

Vorpy

Which is the reason why I thought of it as a meaningless buzzword. Until Webster's makes a clean-cut definition or Urban Dictionary sucks less then Weeaboo will always be "Anyone who likes anything from Japan that I absolutely despise."

Stormtroper

He's a weeaboo? I thought he was just a somewhat-racist weirdo.

Same here, except I think the "somewhat-racist" is explained by the weirdo.

Anyhow, Yurifanboysama definitely counts. Also.

Icalasari

I thought a weeaboo was defined as someone who rejects their heritage in exchange for acting like (how they percieve) Japanese

inkblot

ninjaclown

^Obligatory.

Icalasari

^ Obligatoraly Obligatory?

glennmagusharvey

Yes.  Very much yes.  Every time someone says that w-word.

As for Japan: I've heard that it's nice if you're a tourist but it's a pain to actually live there.  I know at least that cost of living in Tokyo is extraordinarily high, for example.

> So if I want to live in America at some point, what does that make me?

Ameriboo?

Khwarizmi

Japan = Weeapan?

Vorpy

I thought it was a Wankee.

Khwarizmi

Wankee = a person who is wanked by a wanker.

Although actually, "wanker" is probably the word I was looking for.

Vorpy

Wannabe Yankee....or a Weagle, a Wamerican?

Khwarizmi

No, it's definitely "wanker".

"Weagle" sounds like it should be "wannabe beagle".

DonZabu

Wonka?

Ponicalica

Yanker?

Komodin

Yacker?

Vorpy

So that means a Fan Wanker is a....

....fucking eww.

Gelzo

Japan has always struck me as one of the most culturally different among countries that have developed as much as it has, and I've had an interest in it in part because of that. I've never been to a foreign country besides Canada, and I've enjoyed studying foreign languages for years, so it seems fair to me to want to try living there for a time. I'm planning on studying abroad in Japan for a semester next year. I've always thought it sounded like an interesting place to live in, and I thought maybe I'd try out the JET program after college.

I don't think I'd be opposed to living there depending on what kind of career opportunities I could find. It's just that it'd mean being farther away from family, and I can't say for sure how much the cultural differences would stress me.

But y'know, I've read about difficulties other people have had living there and I don't expect it to be anything like Super Happy Video Game Anime Land. Hopefully being aware of potential problems will allow me to deal with them more effectively.

Ponicalica

«I don't think I'd be opposed to living there depending on what kind of career opportunities I could find.»

From what I've heard, Japanese office jobs are designed to be even more painfully mind-numbing than American office jobs, and that's the main thing that makes me seriously not want to live in Japan.

TheMightyAnonym

I do hope to live in Japan, but not for the common reasons of its culture or anything like that. I'd like to live there expressly because of its gorgeous landscape, and that is 99% of the reason.

I'd positively love to live in a serene and secluded mountain village.