I'm saying that you do not get to declare moral ownership of a product/artistic expression based on sharing the nationality of its creator and "graciously" allow people of other nationalities to engage fannishly with it!
This. This, so much. Thank-you for writing this - I've been fortunate in my fandom experiences and not had to deal with (or see) such silly appropriating and nationalistic behaviour. Of course, it helps that my common fandoms tend to have numerous Brits in it, I think, along with Americans & Canadians, so the 'correct' English thing kinda disappears. And I've yet to see some kind of discrimination or derogatory comments or behaviour towards someone who ESL or from somewhere other than the places mentioned.
And I also want to say that I love you for specifying US Americans and Canadians. Too often, it seems to me, Canadians are a little invisible (again, could just be my fandoms). And also, when reading posts of this sort targeting Americans, I think we tend to mentally exempt ourselves from it, even though we do have so much in common. (When you said 'melting pot cultures' and included Canada I'll admit it - I felt an instinctive bit of protest. 'We're a quilt! A patchwork! Not a melting pot!' *eyeroll* But really, who knows?)
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Date: 2009-12-19 02:28 pm (UTC)This. This, so much. Thank-you for writing this - I've been fortunate in my fandom experiences and not had to deal with (or see) such silly appropriating and nationalistic behaviour. Of course, it helps that my common fandoms tend to have numerous Brits in it, I think, along with Americans & Canadians, so the 'correct' English thing kinda disappears. And I've yet to see some kind of discrimination or derogatory comments or behaviour towards someone who ESL or from somewhere other than the places mentioned.
And I also want to say that I love you for specifying US Americans and Canadians. Too often, it seems to me, Canadians are a little invisible (again, could just be my fandoms). And also, when reading posts of this sort targeting Americans, I think we tend to mentally exempt ourselves from it, even though we do have so much in common. (When you said 'melting pot cultures' and included Canada I'll admit it - I felt an instinctive bit of protest. 'We're a quilt! A patchwork! Not a melting pot!' *eyeroll* But really, who knows?)
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