Question for those who are or have been strongly interested in other countries/cultures
Has anyone else been really interested in a country/culture that's not one of the main ones people seem to obsess over (South Korea, Japan, Britain, France) and you're a different continentality, never been there, and have no connection to that country have people (that aren't that ethnicity) claim it's offensive/problematic/racist for people of a different race that's never been to there and have no connections to to really love that country/culture in that way because while I usually would just have people think it's unusual I was once playing a roblox and girl who told me she was Japanese said that kind of stuff about me loving and talking about China and Taiwan after she asked if I was Chinese or Japanese and I said "no and I'm not Taiwanese either" (she knew I never been to those places because I was talking to my friend about how I wanted to go) 😭