Wishes to be Asian
Post picture of anime girl, an art style that is highly stylized but somewhat generic in terms of ethnic identity markers
wish
Submitted 1 year ago by SSUPII@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
You’re right. Anime characters don’t really look too much Like any specific ethnicity most of the time. I wonder if that’s part of the appeal
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It 100% is. Like one of the best aspects of non descript stylization is self insertation!
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are some animes which have very clear and distinct racial markers. Perfect blue or Akira for example.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I think it’s just a byproduct of animation. The simpsons don’t necessarily look like any specific ethnicity either
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 1 year ago
You were born in Siberia, congratulations!
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
You’ve been selected to be front line infantry!
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Spending your infancy in the infantry, hoorah!
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 year ago
Even just a standard family in South Korea sounds pretty horrible. Very stressful, very little free time. Japan is better, but still not great. Now imagine what happens if the country turns full authoritarian again from that starting point, as is the general tendency in most countries nowadays.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everything boils down to your economic cohort. Being upper class in Korea and Japan is fantastic. Being upper class in the Philippines is pretty great, all things considered. Just be born rich. Anywhere, really. Even being a rich Ukrainian or Syrian gets you a lot of extra mileage, globally. And the spread between rich and poor in a country like Dubai or South Africa, right now? Astronomical.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Sounds like we need a global communist revolution
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Eh… My little cousins live in Korea and come from money, it still sounds kinda crappy. 8 hours of school then instrument practice, dance class, and after school academy… the little dudes get home at like 9-10pm every night. One of them calls all the time and begs us to host him when he’s ready for college, the little guy just wants to play football.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 year ago
It really doesn’t sound like the original OP wants to be rich, though. As far as I can tell, their fantasy is to be regular school kid. I suppose an upper middle class kid in philippines, indonesia etc. is probably similar enough to satisfy anon’s fantasy. But I think especially in Korea and China, you would actually still be expected to work your ass off in school even if you’re rich.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wish I was a little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six-four Impala
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Funkee?
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Skee-Lo. A name I had thought long since deleted from my brain.
Toes@ani.social 1 year ago
That’s Kuroko, one of my favourite characters from scientific railgun.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is she the one with the superpower to make things slightly warm? Like heating up a cup of tea?
jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, you’re thinking of Uiharu. Kuroko was the one who can teleport.
Toes@ani.social 1 year ago
She has the power to teleport anything she touches up a couple kilometers I believe.
Hoimo@ani.social 1 year ago
I wish I was anime
I wish I looked anime
I wish I had an anime name
I wish I could go to an anime school_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You are now a background student in Kill-La-Kill.
SuluBeddu@feddit.it 1 year ago
This could go wrong in so many ways
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Wish granted. You are now in Danganrompa
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wish granted, Iran.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 year ago
And then there were all the kids wishing they were in America rather than their boring first-world suburb/provincial town. They didn’t get any more specific, and I imagine they were probably thinking of New York/LA/somewhere glamorous, and would have been bitterly disappointed if the maliciously-helpful wishing genie had whisked them away to a rustbelt town in Ohio or some unincorporated community in Alabama or wherever.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Fishing community in Alaska.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That sounds kinda nice to be fair.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just about anywhere in America is an improvement on the Philippines. My wife’s from there and all her friends married white American guys. They have all told me the same thing; The poverty is staggering.
My wife doesn’t say anything about it, but I gather she grew up solidly middle class. I don’t think she has a clue how the poors live.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Spain and then America both exploited the Philippines for centuries. Spain made indentured servants of the local population and turned their economy into a cash crop resource extraction machine for Spanish wealth.
America took over around 1900 and continued that legacy, extracting sugar, coconut and hemp while stalling land reform laws for locals.
It makes sense to move to the nation where the fruits of your and your ancestors labor has been stolen to.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wish granted. You are born on Noth Sentinel Island.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Not likely to to any school if you are from that island.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Feck. I forgor that one.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wish granted you are born in Yakutsk
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or Delhi.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or Myanmar.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean I do like cold…
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Enjoy you pagpag
atocci@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here for Railgun. Season 4 let’s goooo
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
ngl I kinda felt the same way before I realized I’m just trans lmao
I now have boobs and am happy 😚
pipe01@programming.dev 1 year ago
Transasian
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Many of us did, I think