https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1496788626658807814

edit: Wait no, it's maybe worse. That's the Ukrainian ambassador to Japan so this is actual weeaboo cosplay: https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2022/02/16/ukrainian-ambassador-to-japan-poses-as-samurai-in-message-to-russia.html

Along with the impressive image, Korsunsky wrote in English and Japanese "We know what we are fighting for. How about Russia?"

Sergiy Korsunsky

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Claiming Japanese ancestry and samurai armor through on Japanese great grandparent is somehow even more cringe than the Americans who claim to be Irish despite never having set foot in Ireland.

    • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It isn't necessarily just the one great-grandparent. And it all depends on what kind of connection his family has maintained to the country.

      But also someone else said the great-grandfather thing might be made up so idk.

      • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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        3 years ago

        I guess it depends on if and how much they assimilated like you say but I feel like that’s pretty far removed, my great grandfather was Austrian but they assimilated completely by the time my mother was born lol. My grandma only spoke a tiny tiny bit of German if at all, tho uh… maybe some certain world events had something to do with that idk. Haha

        E: they had immigrated decades before ww2 but there was probably a lot of cultural pressure throughout my grandmas life to assimilate as a result of it lol