westaboo
English
Alternative forms
- Westaboo
Etymology
west + -aboo.
Pronunciation
- enPR: wĕstʹəbo͞o, IPA(key): /ˈwɛstəbuː/
Noun
westaboo (plural westaboos)
- (slang, derogatory) A non-Western person (especially a Japanese national) who is obsessed with Western culture and media.
- 2014 September 10, Katie Ujihisa (@sandkatt), Twitter:
- I don't think any actual Japanese kids own an Xbone. Probably mostly foreigners living in Japan and westaboos.
- 2017 December 24, Blankaex (@Blankaex), Twitter:
- american soldiers wanted turkey on xmas but there was none so they settled for the next best thing (kfc). kfc used that as a marketing strat to get all the westaboos (i.e. all of japan) to believe it's an american tradition and it looks like it stuck :^)
- 2018 March 27, Noah Blum (@neontaster), Twitter:
- A lot of mangaka are considered "westaboos" and if you watch something like Black Lagoon, it's totally inspired by American action movies (and some Hong Kong as well).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:westaboo.
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