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Asking "what is their obsession" but then trying to delineate your own as something special or different is pretty weird but okay. Tech folks have been weebs (a

Asking "what is their obsession" but then trying to delineate your own as something special or different is pretty weird but okay. Tech folks have been weebs (and then some) for a long time, it's not a secret and I think it's well past being surprising. Anyway, maybe it is not beloved by the locals. I'd defer to you on that point, but also, is there some reason foreigners can't find it beloved even while locals do not? Lets say they are over-romanticizing it -- that's fine, their opinions are likely not considered in the fate of the building anyway.

alephnan 5y ago
> weebs That term is heavily centered on games, anime, manga and nerd culture. None of which I have interest in. I've been to Akihabara once which I'm sure you are familiar with, and I have no interest in going back. What do you think my obsession is? I'm specifically in Japan for political reasons. Maybe it's obsession with society, rather than culture. I'm in Japan because I care about individual responsibility, and Japan doesn't trigger me. I actually minored in architectural history. My point of contention is whether it is the architecture, or that this unique architecture which is in Japan? > is there some reason foreigners can't find it beloved And yet it only exists in Japan. Also, just because people have good intentions in loving something doesn't mean it's good. That's what leads to orientalism. Did you know Memoirs of Geisha was written by an old man from Tennessee?