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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9023200" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>These conversations always bother me. We're talking about nerd culture loving East Asia, right? Not society in general? It bothers me because we nerds like to think we're smarter or more informed than most people, but then we make statements like this whole thread. A generalization about East Asia. China is not Japan, and Japan is not Korea, and Korea is not the Philippines, etc. Nerds don't "love East Asia culture." We like parts of certain cultures that happen to be in Eastern Asia, then change our mind to a completely different culture while acting like it's all the same.</p><p></p><p>Loving the Shaolin monk in the 70s, then moving to everything ninja in the 80s (two completely different cultures). Korea often gets overlooked completely when talking about East Asia. Not only is it a mistake to conflate them all together, one thing I learned really quickly while living in Korea was that a whole lot of Korean loathed the Japanese and understandably do not want any part of their culture conflated with Japanese culture (since the Japanese tried not once, but twice to wipe out Korean culture).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 9023200, member: 15700"] These conversations always bother me. We're talking about nerd culture loving East Asia, right? Not society in general? It bothers me because we nerds like to think we're smarter or more informed than most people, but then we make statements like this whole thread. A generalization about East Asia. China is not Japan, and Japan is not Korea, and Korea is not the Philippines, etc. Nerds don't "love East Asia culture." We like parts of certain cultures that happen to be in Eastern Asia, then change our mind to a completely different culture while acting like it's all the same. Loving the Shaolin monk in the 70s, then moving to everything ninja in the 80s (two completely different cultures). Korea often gets overlooked completely when talking about East Asia. Not only is it a mistake to conflate them all together, one thing I learned really quickly while living in Korea was that a whole lot of Korean loathed the Japanese and understandably do not want any part of their culture conflated with Japanese culture (since the Japanese tried not once, but twice to wipe out Korean culture). [/QUOTE]
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