I think it's seriously sad that people will see you as a weeaboo for even having a remote interest in anything Japanese. There's seriously a difference between appreciating a culture and trying desperately to be a part of it, or turning down your own culture in favor if its. I mean, this is a silly example, but as obsessed as I am with ancient Rome, you don't see me going around wearing togas and sprinkling my sentences with random Latin and wanting to eat bread and cheese and olives because teh R0m4nz did it. D:
As soon as I found out there was a Japan trip offered at my school, I got really excited. Not because I worship Japan and squee over everything it coughs out, but because it seems like an interesting country and I'd like to see more to the world. I'd be just as happy to go to several other countries. :\