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

  • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Wait no, it’s maybe worse. That’s the Ukrainian ambassador to Japan so this is actual weeaboo cosplay

    He's still Japanese though, considering his great-grandfather... Countries tend to pick ambassadors who have some connection to the country,

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      lol this is like a bureaucrat working at the Bureau of Indian Affairs claiming 1/16th Cherokee so he can sit in his office in full native headdress.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I searched around for some mention of his ancestry but didn't see any. Prior to this he also served as US ambassador and has a degree in international relations, so it might be an arbitrary assignment in the way that the State Department rotates diplomats through different countries before giving them an ambassadorship they want.

      edit: And the great grandfather mention on the original image is seemingly a false story from this twitter user mistaking them for the Japanese ambassador to Ukraine rather than the other way around.

      • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        edit: And the great grandfather mention on the original image is seemingly a false story from this twitter user mistaking them for the Japanese ambassador to Ukraine rather than the other way around.

        Alright in that case yeah maybe he's a weeb.

    • 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