I am a huge fan of Japanese culture. Admittedly, I'm pretty much just a weeaboo. A weeaboo is someone who mistakenly believes they know a lot about Japanese culture due to an odd obsession with anime and manga. Although I have never gone to such lengths as putting on cat ears and going around screaming “kawaii!” at everything, as several kids at my school did. Despite being a bit of a weeaboo, I do like to think that I know a bit about the culture. I am trying to minor in Japanese in order to further my knowledge of the language and the culture.
The culture itself is just appealing to me. As far as I've been able to gather, they're just flat out more polite than us crude Americans. I may be a bit old-fashioned, but I've always been a fan of that kind of behavior. They even have a completely different way of speaking in a polite setting, and use it when referring to customers and such. I suppose I simply grow weary of the crassness of the culture I'm part of.
On the other hand, I don't think I could really go over there. I have severe issues in dealing with crowds and if I went to a bigger city, I think I would probably have a heart attack. Columbus is bad enough for me, especially when I'm mostly used to traversing places at night when nobody is around (I work night shift). I may be able to make it in some of the more rural areas, but that just doesn't seem as interesting.
I think it would be a interesting thing to see someone running around screaming a word that many haven't heard before. Being able to see the difference between cultures around the world is amazing and really quite eye opening. Way to see things from another perspective.
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