[DeadKennedys]

No. People like you are quite possibly the saddest life forms on earth. Your plan is destined to fail, and you know why?

You're one of those geeks who considers anime the pinnacle of Japanese culture, you imagine yourself moving there and it'll be video games and and sushi and hello kitty all day! You soak up everything Japanese like a sponge.

You've learned the barest rudiments of japanese and throw it around in sentences like Peggy Hill.

The thing is, you know nothing more than your pathetic idealism about a land you think will accept your social ineptitude like you're some kind of gaijin goddess. On the off chance you make it there, you'll realize that under the shiny, pocky covered exterior we see on TV and the undoubtedly countless Japanese magazines you've subscribed to, it's just another country. It has its faults and strengths, just like the rest. Jesus, open your eyes!

For someone like myself who studies Japanese, it's insulting to see the otaku in my classroom. They have shirts with japanese characters they can't read, they say "hai" and "kawaii" in conversations like they're really speaking another language, they make up japanese names for themselves and drone on and on about last night's anime. Their grammar is terrible, their accents worse, and I laugh when I imagine the culture shock they'll experience, when they discover that when they were shunned and reviled in their home country, they actually thought the land of the rising sun would worship them.