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The Chosun ilbo reports that there are three fan clubs on Mixi, a popular Japanese social networking site, for the killer of Lindsey Ann Hawker, a British ESL teacher murdered in Japan in 2007. A few hundred Japanese girls, it seems, really go ga-ga for necrophiliac killers. Last year the Korean internet saw its fan club for a serial killer.
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The fan club seems to consist of those 3 fucked up chicks and their baby!!!! Messed up bitches.....
Yes, that baby should be ashamed of its self.
i dont get it. WHY??
This is nothing new. Murderers on death row in the States have have their own fans falling head over heels "in love" with them, too. Many get married just before they get the needle. The Internet is just a way to make this all a little more visible.
In a country of some 125 million people, there are bound to be some weirdos. Oh, and lest anyone ascribe the killer's behavior to some genetic flaw of the Japanese, the killer is a zainichi Korean. Of course, it could be a Japanese cultural pattern toward the treatment of zainichis or with screwing up males of any ethnicity.
Kushibo, don't you pay attention to western media? Japan is a comical land where everything is completely zany all the time and they do things so weird that no other nation on earth could possibly do something similar, like speak a strange language, do funny things on TV, and enjoy porn and videogames. Also, there are gigantic robots walking around everywhere in Sailor Moon outfits, so you can see their giant robo-panties. But on the flip side there is terrible gender oppression and racism and stifling social mores lead to everyone being deathly afraid of anything creative, and outsiders will never be accepted as complete human beings.
Japan ISN'T like that?! ...oh. You just about nailed down every stereotype I had for Japan! :)
With industrial prowess comes psychotic weirdos. That, in a nutshell is Japan. Recently, I came across an Anime event. Young people were dressed up in costumes so bizarre that it boggles the imagination. Bunch of feaks if you ask me! Don't these people have brains and know what is tasteful and what is not?
Brains are tasteful, Yum Yum!
You went to an ANIME event and were surprised people dressed up? And THEY are freaks and don't know what is tasteful? Might I suggest you go to a Star Trek or comic book convention back home? Report back with how many "freaks" dress up tastelessly there, too. Go peddle your anti-Japanese prejudice elsewhere.
It's called cognitive distortion, kiddies. You actually see a sea of normal people doing normal things, going about their normal lives, and mixed in among them is a handful of nutsos, eccentrics, rude people, etc. If we're not careful, the brain tends to exaggerate in our minds the prevalence of the aberrant or different. If the culture in general is different from what we're used to, this happens all the more. Japanese are as normal as any other modernized country. The place has its problems, but what country doesn't?
Oh, and a high concentration of people means a greater likelihood of finding aberrant people, which makes it easier to think that the country as a whole is full of obnoxious people.
Exactly right, else Korea would be "filled with" finger-chopping, self-immolating, stomach-stabbing nutjobs. Sure, such nutjobs exist, but they are not as prevalent as they are made out to be. Same goes for the "anime nutjobs" of Japan or the "Trekkie nutjobs" of the US. |
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