Hello to the mods at AngryAsianGirlsUnited.. I am submitting this through my friends tumblr which she gave me permission to use-you can also contact me through it I felt a bit weird just setting up a tumblr just for this. I felt this needed to be said. For context I am British Japanese. It was my friend (the tumblr I am using) who I have seen your site through, I had seen that “defending weeaboos” by “Rachel and Jun”(appears to be mostly Rachel though) video about a month ago-I wanted to express my view. I apologise if this is not right for your blog but I am a very angry after watching that vide and feel a lot of your followers can relate to these feeling as Asian women we do share certain things and go through some similar experiences and I do hope this is ok-you, and any followers can respond through the tumblr. Thank you.



So this basic ass white girl makes a video defending weeaboos. Given this and the other videos she has done, its crystal clear this girl doesn’t know what the fuck she is talking about (don’t believe me-check out her “unicorn” video-she doesn’t seem to grasp what this term means and seems to use it as an excuse for the “omg I am such speshul snowflake in Nippon land!” anyway there is a lot of bullshittery in this video so I will try and break it down into the most notable stuff, you could dissect it further, if you have the patience and stomach for it.



Firstly-”Rachel” is a white American girl.

Yeah you know what’s coming. She also speaks as if the west=America and America only, not really surprising considering.



She begins the video by stating that she is going to be doing the opposite of what most people expect her to do by defending weeaboos. She says there are “many different definitions” for the term weeaboo- no there fucking isn’t. she goes onto explain the only real definition which it is is a term which originally means wapanses-wanna be Japanese. The first list she gives is that of a weeaboo-wanting to be Japanese, thinking Japan is better than anything else. She then says it can also mean just someone who is interested in Japan. No, it doesn’t, stop with that BS! She then goes on to say she is going to go into arguments as to people who don’t like weeaboos and why this is wrong (hint, its because she is one!)





First point

she begins by saying that these people want to be Japanese/they think Japan is the best. She says most of these people are teenagers and she starts blabbing about the difficulties of teenage transition and finding identity. This on its own is a fair point-yes teenagers are discovering the world is cruel and finding themselves yadda yadda. She makes a point about people seeing the grass being greener on the other side. Again fair point. she goes on for a long time about how teenagers are on anti-depressants etc etc and the drama of not fitting in and being a teen, etc. Yes we get it, being a teenager is hard, it may surprise you woman who would have sex with a married couple aka“unicorn”, but you are not the only person who has been a teenager. Geesh. Its quite clear she is mostly talking about white/western teenagers, because only they experience *da emotions and drama*



Why is this a problem?

Firstly, as its noted, weeaboos are mainly in the west-they want to be Japanese and have a romantised view of being Japanese-actually Asian in general (you know, because despite our varying cultures, traditions and history, we are all just one and the same in the end right?). You think being a white teenager is hard? Try being an ASIAN teenager in the west. Try keeping your confidence when your name is being made of because its not English, try people just giving you nicknames without your permission because they cant be fucking bothered to pronounce your name-meanwhile white kids adopt Asian names like it’s a fucking fashion trend. Try your teachers at the school you go to looking at you and making comments about you and your “weird background” and being more racist than the student and having your concerns dismissed because those teachers do see the racism you face as being racist but YOU just being “difficult“. Try being called ugly because you are not white and therefore not “beautiful” like most of the other girls in your class. yes Rachel, being a teenager is fucking difficult, why do you seem to think this is exclusive to white teenagers? You don’t think all teenagers go through this? How the fuck am I supposed to like weeaboos for wanting to be Asian when I WHO AM ACTUALLY FUCKING ASIAN am not accepted as such? Listen, I have a lot, and I mean a lot of sympathy for people who had rough teenage years, but its hard to be sympathetic when its all “suffer the white people” because they are the only people who feelings count. It reminds me of that comment Katy Perry made “I want to skin you and wear you like Versace”. That’s all we are-a fashion statement-not people. Nice. Also she says people will grow out of it-there are 40 yr old weeaboos for fuck sake!



(she says its not your responsibility to make them happy in their own shoes. Not its not, but being fetishised and dehumanised is not nice either) she says she “doesn’t think it’s a problem when someone says something like that or act like this“. Yes white girl, please speak on behalf of me and mine, because you are married to an Asian-it suddenly give you the right to talk about experiences and realities YOU HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED.







Second point

The following is a direct transcript:

“weeaboos are annoying because they put Japanese words in English sentences. You see I don’t really understand why that is annoying. You see if you are learning another language you need to use the words from the other language. If you don’t know how to put sentences together you can still learn vocabulary by putting it into your English sentences that’s fine. And not only that but literally every single Japanese person puts English words into there Japanese sentences so if you hate weeaboos for doing that then you should probably hate Japanese people too. And its extremely common not just in Japan but in Asian too”



Firstly, just let the stupidity of this whole paragraph sink in.



Why is this a problem

““weeaboos are annoying because they put Japanese words in English sentences. You see I don’t really understand why that is annoying. “ no you wouldn’t white girl, probably because its not your language being butchered.



“You see if you are learning another language you need to use the words from the other language”

Weeaboos have no intention to learn Japanese-they are sticking these terms in there to look totally *Nippon desu* did you already forget the definition of wapanese which you outlined at the beginning of the video?



“If you don’t know how to put sentences together you can still learn vocabulary by putting it into your English sentences that’s fine.“ the problem is languages have different structures with different rules which is why it is better to learn vocabulary WITH the grammar. You cannot really separate the two if you are genuinely trying to learn a foreign language. Which is not what weeaboos are doing.



“And not only that but literally every single Japanese person puts English words into there Japanese sentences so if you hate weeaboos for doing that then you should probably hate Japanese people too. And its extremely common not just in Japan but in Asia too”

No no no no no. this is not the same thing, its called assimilation, and this statement is an example of white privilege and white ignorance. Much of Indian media also have this cross between native language and English-this is not a surprise when you look at their history. In order to get on in an increasingly westernised world, many nations HAVE to learn English, its not really a choice and no its not comparable.



She’s goes onto say “so if you want to say “oh that’s so kawaii” that’s ok I don’t care“ again who the fuck asked you?! this is the other problem, white people speaking on behalf of minorities.



Third point

“They think they know more about Japan than everyone else. Ok so this isn’t just something that is just a weeaboo thing this is like an American culture thing and I am sure it exists in other cultures too. We are just brought up to be extremely opinionated”

First-oh the fucking ironic projection on behalf of Rachel. Because she’s an arrogant ignorant American weeaboo ,we all must be. Ok.



“we want to share what we learn with other people. If you learn something new about a culture you will tell everyone you will say do you know in Japan they do this-this is normal this is how we communicate”

This is deeply problematic-ESPECIALLY when the person who is “communicating” this shit has no idea of context, meaning, and more importantly TRUTH of what they are hearing, which is what the west is constantly guilty of. Now you may be thinking well-ok but this cant do any harm right? Consider this-over the past decade the west has gone to war with many Muslim nations-much of this has been justified under things that are believed to be Islamic but are not like FGM, no education for women etc. many of the lives of the people in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and now probably Iran have been made miserable because of these lies. Propaganda is not a new tool of the west when it comes to justifying attacking other nations and has been used in the past. In fact there is a lot of this propaganda in relation to Japan. In regards to weeaboos, they has turned it into a dreamland that just does not exist and fetishised Asian people on the whole turning us into manic pixie people who just don’t exist. Like woc don’t already have to live upto enough ideals that have been forced through centuries of white standards. Its like that saying “they love everything about us but us” this is pretty much what weeaboos do.



“literally everyone does this-everyone in America forms opinions based on limited knowledge and they act like their opinion is the best opinion” you call this a defence? This is the fucking reason weeaboos need to SHUT UP.



“OF COURSE people shouldn’t be acting like they know everything about something when they don’t but, they’ll learn, they will get there eventually. And it wasn’t like YOU were born with an innate knowledge of Japanese culture you had to learn all of this stuff too”



I see the “defence” is starting to wear thin…



“so they are still learning, they are still in the process of learning and there is nothing wrong with that they will get there eventually its not like they are going to stay here at this low level of knowledge and they are not going to learn anything else of course they are going to keep learning about Japan…”



Again she doesn’t fucking know what a weeaboo is probably because she is one. Weeaboos have no intention of learning about real culture-they are trying to cut out a dream like world for themselves. that’s the real reason many people have problems with them.





“I just find it really elitist to look down on other people because you think you know more then they do” says the weeaboo who has built her entire you tube “career” on this shit. Like seriously look at her play list its all about being speshul unicorn kawaii snowflake white girl in Japan and spreading some serious misinformation for page hits. The hypocrisy is strong with this one, looking through her other vids she is the definition of elitist.



“its not a weeaboo thing if they keep acting like they know a lot about Japan”…you keep digging that hole girl.



“that’s a human thing and that’s especially an America thing….and I am almost positive that at some point you were like that about Japan too because pretty much EVERYONE is” lol yes except, I dunno, JAPANESE PEOPLE? Nice way to completely eliminate the voice of an entire nation while also saying to the world that only America and Japan exists-and basically making Japan sound just like some nice resort for bored American weebs to go to. Woohoo!





Point 4

“They fetishised Japanese people, they only want to date Japanese people its racist and fetishing and dehumanising. Ok if you feel that way and you are not Japanese then its none of your business.”

Please take your OWN FUCKING ADVICE. The problem is in the west despite a plethora of cultures people speak about Asia as if its one and “yellow fever” is a big problem. Not only have I suffered from this but so has my Indonesian friend. It is not a fucking compliment.



“you are not Japanese-you do not need to be offended for Japanese people”

White girl, YOU ARE NOT JAPANESE, DON’T SPEAK ON OUR BEHALF.



“Let them be offended for themselves”

Thanks, I will. Fuck off weeaboo.



“number two-if you are Japanese and you are offended, then just don’t date that type of person.”

Yes because its that simple isn’t it *trigger warning*



Because its all about dating, sexual assault is just made up right? Yellow fever doesn’t exist. When I say no to a guy and he starts to harass me because he thinks he has every right to because there is something wrong with me for not loving his basic white ass because white men are superior to all other men and starts calling me a “man hating lesbian” and “fucking c****“ because I try and push him away because I didn’t give him permission to touch me but I should be honoured because all Asian girls want big white man dick. Yes its totally fine the amount of embarrassment I had when I had to re-tell this story to the police about this guy who kept groping me in broad daylight and who only stopped when a woman pulled me away and yelled at him. It totally fine and doesn’t effect me at all that I tense up whenever I am out in public and a man walks by. Because being Asian I should expect, no be flattered that I, my body have been reduced to a piece of culture that is there to be claimed by white people. I know white women have suffered and are afraid of attacks, but when you are a WOC, its even worse because you are dehumanised on sex AND race, and no matter how you spin it is never “a compliment”.



“and the only way they are going to learn not to put that race in a box is to have more experience with that race”

Wow so we are a fucking EXPERIMENT NOW? Or you could cut that shit out and just see as autonomous human beings but I guess that’s to much to ask a simple American right? No you want an excuse to play with our bodies, POC bodies are there for the amusement of the white people.



“so if you want them to stop fetishing Japanese people let them date Japanese people” WHAT!??!?!? does this fucking bitch even KNOW what fetishing means?!?!? Probably not because she is a massive fetishizer!



Number 5

“They are just plain annoying I don’t like them because they are annoying. Well that is not their problem. Annoying is not an Inherent characteristic…”

No you are right it is a chosen one.



“annoying if your perception of something”

Wait…whut?



“this is an issue with your perception on weeaboos, it is not an issue with weeaboos themselves. If you find something annoying there is a personal problem you need to work though so that you can learn how to deal with these situations.”



You know, I find one direction annoying-I can deal with that, I don’t listen to mainstream radio. If weeaboos were merely annoying, that would be fine to me imo. Being silenced, fetishised, having my culture warped, having my personal space invaded is not something I should have to learn to deal with. Its called basic human rights. Being harassed on the train to the point I have to jump off a few stops early and run to a friends house because I am afraid of what this asshole who proclaims to “love my culture” and wont take fucking NO for an answer is more than a mere annoyance. If only it were mere annoyance.



“it is not their responsibility to change for you”

And why do you think its your responsibility to defend them? Oh yeah because YOU ARE ONE!



She then goes on about annoyance for fucking ever, yadda yadda.



Final thoughts

To fucking top this shit off she equates calling someone a weeaboo to cursing a racist or sexist epithet. No seriously she does. Yeah. Like, I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. How fucking ignorant can you get?



“I don’t think its right to shame people who like Japan, even if you think they are not liking Japan in the right way”



Just…see everything I just fucking wrote



“in the end they still have an interest in a culture outside of their own and that’s such a positive aspect for someone to have”



You’re a regular Christopher Columbus.



“that is the best way to combat racism”

FUCK NO. JUST NO, STAHP.



“if you get people to be interested in other cultures, and come to understand those other cultures”

Because POC’s culture are all for the entertainment of bored Americans.



“learning about another culture and travelling opens your mind”

Providing you had one to begin with



“that nothing else does”

Well I certainly wouldn’t have figured that out from this stupid video



“and this is a priceless piece of knowledge for other people to have I don’t care what your reason for liking Japan is the fact you like another culture is amazing and I think that is fantastic. Eventually people are going to learn more, be less ignorant or whatever”



“and really Japanese people arnt upset by it either”

AND YOU KNOW THIS FUCKING HOW WHITE GIRL? WHO THE FUCK MADE YOU THE EMBASSADOR?”



The remainder of the video is her proving her weeaboo shit by saying well if someone who really likes America came to America we would all be happy because yadda yadda…and how all Japanese people love this and we need to chill and we love being fetished and she just starts jumping around the camera being a fucking weeb and fuckity fuck fuck.

Basically with this video she just proved, ironically, how fucked up and ignorant weeaboos really are. I want to start a new campaign-stop white girls in Japan talking about shit they have no knowledge of 2014.



Ugh I cant anymore. girl bye.



Regards

Yumi