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| | The Spoon Blog: Me No Speaka Wapanese! |
 | | Such ready adoption of the term, originally deemed derogatory, just reiterates the widespread acceptance of Japan as the world’s leading exporter of cool, resulting in the phenomenon of the Wapanese. |
 | | A crude portmanteau of “white” and “Japanese,” the Wapanese, according to www.urbandictionary.com, are “decidedly Caucasian individuals who, by means of thoroughly warped postmodern acculturation processes, have come to the decision that it is in their best interest to act as if they were denizens of the nation of Japan.” |
 | | But more often than not, such tributes to Japanese culture are in fact a superficial cut-and-paste exercise, borrowing elements of kawaii visual candy or sex and violence bordering on the perverse. |
| www.spoon.com.sg /splog/2005/09/me-no-speaka-wapanese.html (609 words) |
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