I’m in the top percentile for my grades (third and fourth year are mainly essays in social sciences undergraduate studies), but I’m also the type of student who never looks up from their laptop and doesn’t raise their hand. The only time the profs hear from me is if I have a rebuttal for the grade I received.
There’s one prof who I’m close with. He was the one where I incorporated Hetalia memes into the final paper and still managed to pull off an A+ in the class. That reminds me. I’m going to have to start making better relationships if I’m to hope for the possibility of reference letters…
It’s a complicated trajectory. My first introduction was in middle school where two cliques of girls were fighting over USUK and FrUk.
It’s not that I don’t want to. A lot of the information on her is from an untranslated game Himaruya made and is inaccessible.
I’ve speculated before that her desire to marry Russia is likely in reference to a union between their states and her conception of showing this love is fairly normal, but then again, there are some really bizarre canon(?) bits of information that depicts this love as genuinely crazy on her part.
It’s from 2008 and although this characterization has clearly been abandoned, I’d still prefer to have an English translation before I comment on it.
I’ve done a post on his inaccurate perception of reality [x].
Mischaracterization post on Russia coming up tonight!
Oh wow! If only they
actually looked into the series too.
Don’t get me wrong
either. I’m not saying that Hetalia didn’t have its fair share of problems,
because it did. The shock perverted humour used in it was blatantly wrong.
If you want a real-life
comparison, it’s very similar to the whole Guardians of the Galaxy and James Gunn
situation. Those tweets were incredibly offensive and cringey, and anyone in
their right mind wouldn’t condone them.
Nonetheless, the
actors in the show were able to recognize that the humour of these ‘jokes’ were
made in poor taste, that they were used for shock value, and that Gunn himself
even owned up and apologized for them prior to the whole scandal. While the
tweets themselves weren’t condoned, they had the common sense to acknowledge
that Gunn wasn’t being serious about these jokes and that they were
unreflective of his true character.
Philip DeFranco on
YouTube did an excellent job of presenting both sides of the story if anyone’s
interested in drawing these comparisons. The only thing that disappoints me is that Himaruya merely deleted the content and didn’t choose to comment on it.
Taken directly from the beginning of any of my posts that include Freud…
“Note: This theory will make use of Freudian theory. While I recognize that Freud’s ideas do not bear much contemporary relevance, that shouldn’t take away from the fact that many of his concepts (e.g., erogenous zones, childhood memory repression, catharsis) are nonetheless employed by Hima in the series. The purpose of this post is to give some insight into the psychologies of the characters.”
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Not to mention that Austria is characterized as a stingy perfectionist, which is the exact description of Freud’s anal-retentive personality type. Freud was Austrian, so it makes sense.
A few more points:
– Freud is often misconceptualized as only coming up with the psychosexual stages, when in reality he did a lot of dreamwork and hypnosis studies too. He’s not sex-crazed either. The libido isn’t just about sex; it’s your entire life force.
– Freud’s work may not be scientific and testable, but there’s a reason why his theories are still used today. Many neo-Freudians and feminist neo-Freudians have tweaked his work and have abandoned his male-centric concepts. He was observing a sexist society at the time, so no duh that his concepts are going to be sexist in nature!
– Point is, the core of his ideas is still valued because there is something useful to them. It may not be measurable, but his studies do come from observational data that he collected during his practice. There are problems in perspective; however, Freud is still very much relevant today because of modern Freudians who have adjusted his theories and therapeutic methods.
– His therapy strategies and models are still taught and practiced. Ex: I’m in Criminology, and I learned his whole model. While the Cognitive-Behavioural model is the most popular therapy applied in the criminal justice system, some psychologists still practice aspects of Freudian theory, not to mention that the concepts of transference and counter-transference are widely accepted in the clinical field.
– You’d be surprised by how accurate some of his concepts are even if they can’t be substantiated by ‘empirical data’. His cocaine addiction is often used to discredit him, but that still shouldn’t negate his contributions.
Lastly…
– I don’t only use Freud. I’ve used Karen Horney and Attachment theory too. I believe that like Freud, Attachment theory was actually used in Himaruya’s characterizations. Karen Horney is just a theorist whose lens I use to analyze the characters for fun.
No worries. Thanks for the correction. Here’s the link [x].
“ Netherlands is a tall, muscular guy who’s in super good shape!
After all, he beat up Spain, who was in control of him during Spain’s golden age.
And he likes young women (too young?) and also thinks some shady drugs are okay, so he’s kind of a punk in that way. ”
Several points again:
– The trivia facts translated from that source [x] are separate from the 2007 Christmas event. They’re two different sources even though they both came out in 2007. That’s why there are differences in the information given (e.g., the xenophobic bit). Himaruya’s character notes are often repetitive, and he’s infamous for re-using old material (e.g., redrawing and reprinting old strips).
– The trivia facts were posted to Himaruya’s blog and were not part of the 2007 Christmas event. These posts were deleted from Himaruya’s blog, so there is no primary source for them, just the translation.
– The translator is the founder of Hetarchive [x]. They even mention that they were unfavourable of the deleted character notes but were impartial and translated them anyway. The lolicon bit was edited out in the Hetarchive article probably because it was recognized that even though this was at one point canon, it’s thankfully no longer relevant nor canon. The initial translator’s note mentions this too.
– My old notes also recorded this fact as once being included in Netherland’s initial Hetarchive article. Here’s proof that it was, in fact, included in the profile [x].
The basic premise is that America’s character is predicated on opposites. Sometimes the hypocrisy is used for comical effect, and sometimes it’s used to reveal character flaws and underlying complexes.
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