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I feel like if you’re not Japanese you shouldn’t be giving yourself a Japanese name when you transition -A queer Japanese person

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Anonymous 1d

Real but i should mention technically kai is also a welsh name and belongs to many different cultures. Its just a really overused name that often belongs to really annoying people

Anonymous 1d

no fr i know someone who named themself a clearly japanese name and it makes me extremely uncomfortable to the point that i dont associate with them or ill make sure to call them one of their alternate names

Anonymous 1d

Genuinely asking: why? Is it cultural appropriation? I understand if it’s a situation where someone is using a “traditional” name that has a historical/cultural meaning or something like that

Anonymous 16h

Yeah 100%. It’s different than, like if you’re living or studying abroad and you have a local name or nickname because people can’t pronounce your name. But to make your ACTUAL real name a name from a culture you aren’t connected to and don’t live in is odd all around imo. It just seems like you’re exoticizing that culture, or like you watched too much anime and forgot japan is a real place

Anonymous 23h

It’s my third language and it never once crossed my mind to use a Japanese name in my transition 💀

Anonymous 1d

That being said I did donate to that girl’s gfm

Anonymous

#1 1d

It’s not your culture, history, or heritage. Japanese people never get to have anything for ourselves because weebs seem to think they have some claim to everything we own because of their weird orientalist obsession.

Anonymous

OP 1d

That’s fair

Anonymous

OP 1d

Wait which girl?

Anonymous

OP 1d

I would just argue that you should argue from a place of people being authentically part of japanese culture (which technically anyone of any ethnicity can be adopted into) rather than this “japanese people cant have anything to themselves” type narrative because imo it mirrors arguments made by white supremacists

Anonymous

#4 21h

This is your guys problem. My culture is constantly being stolen and appropriated and all you care about is tone policing and making some stupid loophole so weebs can “technically” still take from it.

Anonymous

#4 21h

And not everyone can be adopted into it. I grew up in Japan and being culturally Japanese is something you have to have an ethnic tie to otherwise you are not considered Japanese. You can argue whatever semantics you want but if someone that isn’t ethically Japanese tries to have any claim on being Japanese they’re getting laughed out of the country and they know this.

Anonymous

#4 21h

As OP stated— and I’ll add on a little… if it’s not something you’re raised around, have ties to, and navigate daily, and you just want to take the fun parts and leave the rest, that’s not appreciation, that’s appropriation. That’s part of the issue being addressed here. Some white girl walking around calling herself Kaori when she only knows about anime isn’t okay.

Anonymous

#3 21h

I’m not talking about names that could be in multiple languages, that’s fine and it’s also not even a super common Japanese name

Anonymous

OP 21h

They should really watch experiences from ハーフ folks to get insight on that, too.

Anonymous

OP 21h

I’m talking about people that are clearly not Japanese going by names like “Midori” “Ayaka” “Kenji” etc.

Anonymous

#7 16h

Yeah i especially hate people who glorify japan. Its a country with flaws like any other country