BEDA; My Biggest Pet Peeve (probably)

Hello all :)

So, I know I kinda failed BEDA, but I did in fact blog a lot in April, and it kind of got me into the habit to at least THINK about blogging! so I should be able to keep up with it over the summer, which would be pretty cool, I think.

So, I feel like expressing my biggest pet peeve ever. Well, one of the biggest... It might be the biggest, I'm not sure, I don't really feel like deeply thinking of all the annoyances in my life, so let us just say this is the biggest.

When people ask me if I like anime


I'm pretty sure that no one has ever been asked this question more then I have. Seriously.
You see this is usually how most conversations go with me when I meet new people


Person: "Oh you go to Uvic? what do you study?"
Me: "Japanese"
Person: "Oh! Really? that's pretty cool"
Me: "Hahah...*awkward* Ya...."
Person: "So, I have to ask, is that because you like Anime?"


I shit you not, they always ALWAYS say "I have to ask"
Why do you have to ask? Seriously why?
Is your opinion of me really going to be based around the fact of something I may or may not watch in my spare time? Is that seriously important to you? Because if it is I think I want to finish this conversation.


Now, I have nothing against anime in any way shape or form.
I have, in fact, been known to watch it from time to time. Being someone who does in fact study japanese, it kind of just comes with the territory. Most people that I meet who are also studying, do in fact LOVE anime and spend a lot of their lives dedicated to it, and really, to each their own.
It isn't really the 'Anime' aspect of it that bothers me.
it's the negative intonation that people put on anime. As if all people who like anime are diseased and weird and annoying, because I swear, I know a lot of cool people who are anime fanatics. But it's like, people feel the need to find out if i watch it or not, so that they can they determine if I'm normal or not.
It's so friggin annoying.


For the record, ya, I like anime. In the way that I can apperciate it, and it's art form, and I do indeed have a few series that I watch from time to time. For me they are just TV shows, and nothing more. People spend hours gushing about the JERSEY SHORE, and I'm a loser for watching some Full Metal Alchemist? really?


Mainly, I just hate it when I'm sterotyped, and when my dream, my life, is belittled because of some peoples preconceived and ignorant ideas about Japanese culture and the "Anime nerds". 
Seriously, if I was obsessed with Germany, and German was my major, people would just stop at "Oh, thats cool!"


Basically,
It's a pet peeve,
and for anyone reading this who doesn't know; there is a hell of a lot more to Japan then anime.


The end
byebye
M