The Japenese Geek Heirarchy
Um... something about this whole list is just wrong... not the list content, but the making of it... But while I am on the topic, I would like to add that people who dress up as anime characters to go to conventions scare me. But somehow, oddly enough, people who dress up as klingons don't. Go explain that.
Japenese Geek Heirarchy
Hey! Don't diss cosplay! Cosplay is one of the best things in Anime Conventions!
Cosplay Girls are better than Trekkie girls!
Posted by: Keiichi Morisato at July 14, 2004 12:11 PM
I would just like to say that I am devout anime fan, and conventions are nothing to be afraid of! Sure we spend more time researching and watching and reading anime related stuff than going out, eating, and sleeping combined, but we are human!....JOKE.
I'm actually not an anime fan at all. But I know so pretty decent people that are. Further more, as scary as those conventions my seem, it's the trekkies you gotta watch out for (again, J/K...meaning no harm, I swear)
Pretty crazy list if I may say so..
Andre
Posted by: Andrea at July 14, 2004 03:28 PM
Why you insolent fools!
Hab SoSlI' Quch!
Posted by: Gowron at July 14, 2004 05:37 PM
Cosplay aside, what a strange schema!
Anytime I see a map that starts with "Japanese People" I wonder if it means = "those" Japanese people, or "us" Japanese people. In this case it's both and neither. Much of the time, these kinds of (quasi-academic) structures give more insight to the people who designed it, than it says about those it is meant to describe. This is case in point. As my journalist and critical academic geek-factor was triggered, I actually enjoyed trying to figure out who the authors of the diagram were - what their actual identities are. Both authors of the website are from the US, with degrees in Asian studies, both are assumedly American, and one of the guys is dealing with a self-admitted uncertainty (almost depression) of the value of his BA in Asian studies - and has a Ducatti waiting for him in the US. If you're so compelled, try to figure out where he (his fiancee and presumedly all the other non-Japanese, non-Asian university graduates working, living and studying in Japan) fit in the hierarchy. The answer to the "those" vs. "us" question? It's intentionally hidden and switches back and forth, like an inside joke: most of what's on the left is "those" and the boxes on right refer to a satirical reflection of "us." Do you get it?
Missing from this "hierarchy" are the Japanese students that come to Vancouver to study English, and still, the non-visible Koreans who are denied legal identity in Japan. What do you think?
Posted by: Alden at July 17, 2004 01:11 PM
I think Alden is an intellectual show-off =P
Go get your graduate degree already, big guy!
Posted by: Jay at July 17, 2004 10:41 PM
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Hey! Don't diss cosplay! Cosplay is one of the best things in Anime Conventions!
Cosplay Girls are better than Trekkie girls!
Posted by: Keiichi Morisato at July 14, 2004 12:11 PM
I would just like to say that I am devout anime fan, and conventions are nothing to be afraid of! Sure we spend more time researching and watching and reading anime related stuff than going out, eating, and sleeping combined, but we are human!....JOKE.
I'm actually not an anime fan at all. But I know so pretty decent people that are. Further more, as scary as those conventions my seem, it's the trekkies you gotta watch out for (again, J/K...meaning no harm, I swear)
Pretty crazy list if I may say so..
Andre
Posted by: Andrea at July 14, 2004 03:28 PM
Why you insolent fools!
Hab SoSlI' Quch!
Posted by: Gowron at July 14, 2004 05:37 PM
Cosplay aside, what a strange schema!
Anytime I see a map that starts with "Japanese People" I wonder if it means = "those" Japanese people, or "us" Japanese people. In this case it's both and neither. Much of the time, these kinds of (quasi-academic) structures give more insight to the people who designed it, than it says about those it is meant to describe. This is case in point. As my journalist and critical academic geek-factor was triggered, I actually enjoyed trying to figure out who the authors of the diagram were - what their actual identities are. Both authors of the website are from the US, with degrees in Asian studies, both are assumedly American, and one of the guys is dealing with a self-admitted uncertainty (almost depression) of the value of his BA in Asian studies - and has a Ducatti waiting for him in the US. If you're so compelled, try to figure out where he (his fiancee and presumedly all the other non-Japanese, non-Asian university graduates working, living and studying in Japan) fit in the hierarchy. The answer to the "those" vs. "us" question? It's intentionally hidden and switches back and forth, like an inside joke: most of what's on the left is "those" and the boxes on right refer to a satirical reflection of "us." Do you get it?
Missing from this "hierarchy" are the Japanese students that come to Vancouver to study English, and still, the non-visible Koreans who are denied legal identity in Japan. What do you think?
Posted by: Alden at July 17, 2004 01:11 PM
I think Alden is an intellectual show-off =P
Go get your graduate degree already, big guy!
Posted by: Jay at July 17, 2004 10:41 PM
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