Well, I am Asian, for what it's worth, but I don't think that really affects my pairing choice TOO much, seeing as how Japan/China is the only strictly-asians pairing that I'm really rather fond of. I enjoy mixing Hetalian characters up a lot, but I'll admit that this might be a result of how all the schools I've been to have always had a scarily diverse range of students (ie: in high school, we had a classmate from Brunei! xD).
Well, as being German, French, and English, I can't quite say. I could have far-off relatives who were related to Karl Marx for all I know, but I don't. To say the least, my nationality really had nothing to do with it.
5) Do you think your country of origin has influenced you in choosing this pairing, if at all?
Oh yeah. I’m Chinese American too, and getting into Hetalia just personifies the country’s issues with each other. It actually made me want to go into International Relations for the sake of working on their relationship.
Plus, my mom is just like China, and I have a little brother just like Korea…so I’m stuck in the middle as Japan. So, in regards to the East Asian family, I am sympathetic. For anything else, no. xDD
I'm Japanese; well, American by birth, but all my relatives are Japanese. :D
...But since Yao is (I think I've cheerily said this ten times before) my little black dress for the APH fandom, I'm not too sure how much my nationality affects my pairing. And while I do put Yao in a lot of noncon situations, I try to even it out (read: vary it around) with some opportunities for fan/happiness/crack. *this sounds like rationalization, even to me* --;
Okay, I'll be honest: while I don't think it was active, and I'm loathe to say only, I think that my nationality had a lot to do with me picking Japan and China to ship as an OTP for hetalia. I mean, it's a country that feel relatively close to, and a country whose culture and history I appreciate greatly (even before hetalia!), so I guess it's pretty natural. But what started out as a fleeting interest - at best - that was maybe the result of my "cultural identity" (even though I identify myself as American at first thought...), went on way deeper and for way longer than I thought it
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Another question (I edited the main post): How "forbidden" is this relationship? I know Yao considers Kiku to be a brother, but there are also the governments and the people to consider. There's a general attitude in China that women who go off with foreigners are shameless because they do it for the money/there's not enough women for the Chinese men.
5) Do you think your country of origin has influenced you in choosing this pairing, if at all?
Well, I’m ethnic Chinese but my family has been “away” for quite long so I guess some kind of residual ethnic loyalty made me ship China. Actually when I first got into hetalia, I thought the actual country was really uncool so what prompted me to pick him??? Maybe I did have some unconscious affection for him after all? However, I know many people in my position who no longer identify themselves as Chinese but with our birth countries which is perfectly understandable.
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Oh yeah. I’m Chinese American too, and getting into Hetalia just personifies the country’s issues with each other. It actually made me want to go into International Relations for the sake of working on their relationship.
Plus, my mom is just like China, and I have a little brother just like Korea…so I’m stuck in the middle as Japan. So, in regards to the East Asian family, I am sympathetic. For anything else, no. xDD
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...But since Yao is (I think I've cheerily said this ten times before) my little black dress for the APH fandom, I'm not too sure how much my nationality affects my pairing. And while I do put Yao in a lot of noncon situations, I try to even it out (read: vary it around) with some opportunities for fan/happiness/crack. *this sounds like rationalization, even to me* --;
Okay, I'll be honest: while I don't think it was active, and I'm loathe to say only, I think that my nationality had a lot to do with me picking Japan and China to ship as an OTP for hetalia. I mean, it's a country that feel relatively close to, and a country whose culture and history I appreciate greatly (even before hetalia!), so I guess it's pretty natural. But what started out as a fleeting interest - at best - that was maybe the result of my "cultural identity" (even though I identify myself as American at first thought...), went on way deeper and for way longer than I thought it ( ... )
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5) Do you think your country of origin has influenced you in choosing this pairing, if at all?
Well, I’m ethnic Chinese but my family has been “away” for quite long so I guess some kind of residual ethnic loyalty made me ship China. Actually when I first got into hetalia, I thought the actual country was really uncool so what prompted me to pick him??? Maybe I did have some unconscious affection for him after all? However, I know many people in my position who no longer identify themselves as Chinese but with our birth countries which is perfectly understandable.
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