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Are you proud of the character of your country?
Please, write what kind of nationality you are, and why you are proud of him/her. I am curious about your opinion. :)
I am Hungarian and really proud of Hungary's character. She was created very well. And because she was the very first female character in the Hetalia. And when she was little she thought she was a boy and really used to act like a boy! xD And a what kind of superb fighter proved to be in the battle against the Prussians.
It is I like in her as she used to take care of the little Italians. It is interesting for me she is yaoi fan. For a long time I did not know about there were so many Hungarians who like boy-boy things; only me. :D
I am Hungarian and really proud of Hungary's character. She was created very well. And because she was the very first female character in the Hetalia. And when she was little she thought she was a boy and really used to act like a boy! xD And a what kind of superb fighter proved to be in the battle against the Prussians.
It is I like in her as she used to take care of the little Italians. It is interesting for me she is yaoi fan. For a long time I did not know about there were so many Hungarians who like boy-boy things; only me. :D
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I did always think he would of been tsundere anyway because I think that is how some British people act anyway and it just makes him so cute in my eyes XD.
I can't cook either and I do like to believe in the supernatural too, we have that in common.
Yes I am very happy how they depicted England :) he's cute, stubborn, adorable and kind, I really am proud :)
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I guess I'd just say that I like England's character a lot, and even if his tsundere behaviour isn't neccessarilly something to be proud of I wouldn't want him to ever change! XD
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but my parents are from the Philippines and Puerto Rico (technically a commonwealth but whatevs) and I don't think they've appeared in Hetalia yet
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As someone who went to Ibiza and Barcelona during the Spring, I was beyond pleased |Dno subject
I absolutely love America's characterization; he's silly, loud, a bit obnoxious but loveable overall. He's also pretty smart, he can be silly but he can be logical. We definitely do have some obsession with heroes, justice and saving the day. I also didn't realize how ridiculous and common our florescent desserts were until I studied abroad and the Italians asked me a lot about crazy colored sweets.
What bothers me, however, is how sometimes the fandom exaggerates America's incapability to read the atmosphere and makes him stupid beyond reason. Then again, I'm sure most of us don't like it when other characters get reduced to one trope. I can't even begin to tell you how much I hated the idea of Mexico being "the Belarus of Latin America" back in the early days, it's not as prevalent as it is today
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So Romano... I think he is too much of a coward at times and puts up too much of a front, but I am proud of him. He tries to be strong and shows gratitude in his own way when he wants to.
The Sicilian stereotypes are pretty accurate too. Of course, they are just stereotypes and nothing more.
Feliciano...Also too much of a coward but I LOVE his personality otherwise. I relate more to him which is why I cosplay him sometimes. The North Italian stereotypes are too accurate with him. lol He does have a serious side though, and I wish that was explored more is all. I am definitely proud of him.
Alfred...I hate him. I am sorry. I can never bring myself to like his character. However, the stereotypes are VERY accurate. This is probably WHY I can't stand him. lol I..am not proud of him. :( (If he were a little like Romano.. I would be though. lol)
There is no Dominican Republic character so can't really say anything about that.
Ukraine: I am not Ukrainian...but I've traveled there and lived there. My friends there consider me honorary Ukrainian which I think is cute. My input probably doesn't matter much regarding her though but I have a strong connection to the country so just for my sake I will state this. I am not proud of her character in Hetalia. Too focused on breast jokes. And too many people make jokes on her. I just can't take that. I am however so glad that Himaruya never made Chernobyl jokes with her. That part I hope NEVER happens because it wasn't a joking matter and it pisses me off whenever people joke about it. I lived through that time so it's very fresh in my memory and out of respect I would never joke about it. Same thing about the Holocaust jokes (only I didn't live through that..but still pisses me off). This is why I hate the english version of Hetalia anime. I am happier just watching the japanese version where they don't make direct jokes about it. Ukraine is a lot stronger than Hetalia portrays her. I wish Himaruya explored Ukraine's history more too... There is so much more to her than "large tracts of land" and Russia's sister. She has really strong connections with Poland (love-hate kind too like Russia) and Canada in particular. Hoping this gets explored in the future for her.
I liked this question. Thank you for bringing it up! <3
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For Vietnam, I absolutely love her. Even though she barely appeared in the comic (as far as I know), I just love her. According to my father, Vietnam is first created by two women (sisters maybe? I can't recall), and that there are multiple of strong women in our country that shapes it's history, so I love how she is portrayed as headstrong. As for looks (like this year's Hetaween and the strip with Taiwan), that is so like me. Whenever a camera is around, I just run away, like half of my family lol.
For America, I have mixed feelings for him. I think it's alright that he loves the concept of freedom and that we are a "free" country, but I don't know anyone who is American and screams about freedom a lot (Sure, My father has a total of... 7 American flags in our house, but that doesn't scream freedom, right?). As for the stereotypes, I just find that annoying. Sure, we have a problem with obesity due to fast food like McDonald, but I just like don't like how it is portrayed with Alfred (even though I don't know any other way to point that out). America is also kinda... too loud and obnoxious for my liking too. Sorry dude ^^"
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my father is from Budapest and I'm very proud of my Hungarian heritage. I've been there and wish to live there. Hungary is one of my favorite characters from anything and I really love how weirdness is a big part of her character. Hungarians are proud to be weird!
my maternal grandmother is Swedish, and I grew up with more Swedish customs than any other nationality so I'm also very proud of that. I think Sweden is a lovable character and I'm proud of Sweden's strength and progressiveness, plus his appreciation for quietude.
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I like her sketch so far and absolutely can't wait to see him making yet another sketch for her or the other SEAsians :'D
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Australia is okay. He's about what you'd expect. China's okay, he's about what you'd expect. Japan's okay, he's totally boring though. All in all, they're all okay. Nothing to write home about. 8U
As a result, I'm a boring mix of all three.
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I also wouldn't say I'm "proud" of him, either. While, again, I do love him, sometimes some of his character traits piss me off, like him being drunk, his tsundere-ness, and for lack of a better term, his 'Britishness' - or what other people perceive it to be. Because I can tell you it is what most of us call posh English, and it's not very representative of the entire country. I know it's asking too much of Hima since he probably has no idea of other accents, but it would be at least humorous if the dub team throw in a random cockney accent or something lol
Also my dad told me years ago that my great great great grandfather was from Prussia, but when I asked again recently he told me he was German/half German... so I'm confused on that part. 8| BUT EITHER WAY I looooooove both of them <33333 And I'm really glad that Germany's anger has toned down a bit recently. One of the things that was tiring me out about his character was his short temper towards Italy in particular.
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Now to be unique and controversial, I'm that one Hong Konger who actually considers herself as Chinese too. In general, I really really like how he's done in canon: shrewd and practical, blunt and with little to no sugarcoating filter (which is so true in reality, honestly), a well-meaning but out of the loop and overly nagging mother type. There are some fandom portrayals I'm not too crazy about, but in the end characterisation can be pretty complicated and the thing about Hetalia is that it's taken from all sorts of angles and POVs. Mine follows how I know Chinese people to be: hearty, diligent, straightforward and ambitious like hell.
Though I lived in Canada for 4 years, I'm not overly attached to the character as a citizen so as long as he's funny and cute, I'm all for it =P
I'm also 1/32 Portuguese but come on, that hardly counts anymore (just makes for interesting family history).
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His appearance is spot on though, my brother looks exactly like him! (except the green eyes, my brother's are blue...) It's just his behaviour which is off.
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It's a simple fact of culture and past history: South Italy was generally under the control of Spain, as you know it. Middle Italy belonged (and yes, BELONGED) to Vatican city, and together they made the Papal States, or Stato Pontificio, in italian. Rome is also located precisely in the centre of the country, and this strenghtens my feeling. But I understand why Hima chose not to represent Italy with three characters: it would have been too complicated to explain. Italian history is really messy, believe me.
Anyway, I love both Romano and Veneziano, even if they don't exactly give the right image, in my opinion. It's true that we're quite dumb in war matters, but we're not that idiotic as it seems. I mean, we gave birth to a lot of amazing characters who revolutioned world history, we're not that stupid or uncultered. However, we're chaotic, inconclusive and superficial, especially now that our political class is so amazingly inept. Sad, but true. We have a lot of flaws, but also a lot of good points: and, if I might say, the most open and friendly Italians are the South and Middle ones, not the North. And not only with girls.
I really can't decide if we've become inefficient because we've been kind of unlucky in our past, or if we are now unlucky because we have been inefficient. These two concepts are deeply entangled in our way of being. The problem of Italians is that we have been separated for the longest time in our home, and we couldn't develop a coherent political and social strategy. Even now that we are united, our differences are palpable and persistent. And because of that, there are a lot of different traditions, dialects and even stereotypes. Even among us. Remeber the different Republics, Reigns, Principalities and Comuni? Different "countries", different people.
Even for me it's difficult speaking about my own country, because there are a lot of things that I still can't understand about our history. I don't want to justify our current problems with the past, but it has a major part in our present situation. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make such a long speech XD
In a nutshell, I do love my country (both parts), and I'm proud of being Italian... yet I'm not. I would like us to be more.. I don't know, able to live the present without dragging the weight of our past failures. We can do it, we have the intelligence and the instruments, and yet.. we just can't. It's like our fate consists in being supervisioned by someone else, and I simply can't accept that.
I can't undestand if I just love or hate my country XD
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If it can help if you want to have fun studying the history of Italian unification you'll discover people back then tried to make the best they could but they were facing problems that were bigger than they were and ended up making many mistakes that, of course, ended up making matters worse.
Now that we know the consequences of those mistakes we can sit down and say: no, really, how could you think it would work? but back then, with the limited knowledge they have, dealing all of sudden with a kingdom that was that large and with the mentality that people had back then, they really didn't know any better. Sadly one will pay for each mistake he does. Many 'apparently right' choices were horrible mistakes and we're still paying for them.
As you said now it's only a matter of managing to let go of the past and walk toward the future, without forgetting the past mistakes but without allowing them to drag us down.
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It's true it wouldn't have been easy to represent faithfully Italy as Italy had been cut in many parts and therefore each of this parts developed a different history and character. People from Lombardy aren't the same from people from Emilia or from Piedmont or from Veneto or from Trentino, even if they're all northerns, still Veneziano came out as a characters that suffers of the fact he's supposed to represent too many things while his author has only vague knowledge of them (and I've the feelings in the original plans Veneziano was supposed to represent all Italy, ence why he's called Italy, differently from his brother and why he has the friendly nature that many associate with italy but that's actually more southern than northern).
So I fear it's more a problem of being impossible to represent Italy with just Veneziano and Romano and the little knowledge Himaruya had at the time he created them than anything else that causes me to feel very distant from the way those 2 acts.
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His idea of what countries are like and other people's view will differ of course...
I kinda wish she could appear more~ she's more than just "cute", I think.
She's also cheerful and stubborn, and headstrong~
But whenever I see her I'm like *w* <333
Ah America. Yep~
I think he's accurate :'D but at least Hima didn't make him like, a jerk
He can be kind and funny, I like him too~
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As for America... I'm kind of on both sides for now. Yes, he is funny and all but I see him as a bit obnoxious at times. I guess that It's just how more people beiw America now so I guess that in their eyes it might be accurate, who knows ^ ^ I'm kind of bothered by how a lot of people think that way though, I mean some Americans may be annoying but we all (probably) know someone like that and they might not even be American. Oh well.
As for both, I'm fine with their representations and wouldn't like it any other way :)
On a side note, I think that the countries are actually people themselves and that they don't exactly completely change due to their people changing. What their personality is like is based on stereotypes, but at the same time, the things that they went through make who they are, not only how their people are judged. I don't know, I just wanted to get that out there.... I digress ''OTL
I currently live in China (..~<3) so I'll just write some things about him. In my opinion, China is represented fairly well, but for some reasons, it could be seen that he's not. I like the idea of China being reminiscent of the past because there is a good reason for him to e like that, and I also like how he is depicted in other ways such as being, the asian older brother (PARENT/TEACHER OAO), and how he is trying to be "chic and cool" in his own way because it's just funny... Mostly because of the Asian parent stereotype...and the fact that my parents are like that so I can connect to his ways of ... teaching...? :P China is modernizing quickly so I see why he wants to be "chic and cool" (PFFt. Oh China you.) Otherwise, I feel as if the whole picture has not been portrayed just yet because there is more to China than that. Well, maybe I'm just bias, he is my favorite character after all..... and BTW the food here is awesome.. :3
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Vietnam-chan still has not so much appearance in the manga so I can't tell her portrayal of my country's right or not~
But I can tell that her personality's typical of the traditional generation: humble, shy, not so confident of her appearance but surprisingly skilful~
Vietnam's design might be not as detailed as other female countries but I'm totally into this simplicity - it shows her modesty!
By the way, I kinda look like Vietnam-chan, except the golden eyes though, and sometimes I feel sympathetic with her inability to read the atmosphere~
That's why I love Ecchan besides the reason that she represents my country =D
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Although I was born in Canada.... I'm just glad they included Canada... If they didn't, that would be really sad...
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I love my country, but I can't say the same for its rapresentations, like my fellow compatriots said, the way Himaruya stereotyped them lacked of information about the country itself, but I can't also criticize Himaruya since he just used information he found or heard about our country and made two guys which should portray the nortern and the southern part of a country which is much more complicated than what it shows.
Italy has always been a divided country, and through the years this heterogeneity deacresed, but didn't completely disappear.
Truth to be told, I don't really like them, their characterization is kind of messed and like I said it'd be really hard to rapresent Italy whit just one or two characters because it's just impossible to portray a so fragmented land, separated for years through history. Though I'm really fond of them as well, because I can't just turn my back at supposedly human rapresentations of my country.
Anyway I quote as much as the other Italians said. Just I'd like to add we're talking about stereotyped rapresentation of countries and that most of them are just rumors "you can't judge a book from its cover", right? I think the only way to really potray a country's live it. You understand really what it's like to be an "Italian" or "American" and so on only if you live like one, and I hope people wouldn't think less of any country because thay make it appear as a place full of criminals or fat people etc.
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If anything, I think we got lucky having someone like America portray our nation.
It could have been so much worse.
I think America is human, combined with stereotypes. He is loud, too sure of himself, plays the 'hero' role to an extreme, and manipulates situations for his favor (often times by acting oblivious to anyone else's opinion). Yet, while these are stereotypes of America as a nation, who doesn't know someone with some of these traits? And these are not the ONLY traits America has. It really strikes a nerve when people say they don't like him for the before mentioned qualities I mentioned. They're overlooking/ignoring the fact that he is often kind, highly principled, silly, cheerful, lovable, and when he DOES feel he's crossed a line or hurt someone, he is quick to want to fix it (in a reluctant but undeniable way). He is so human; he is such a blend of flaws and good qualities that he really feels like a living representation of my nation. His good qualities outweigh his negatives ones by far for me, so much so that I'm dismayed when people view him negatively.
I'm grateful to Himaruya for giving us such a wonderfully human representation of my country. I honestly have a hard time seeing how someone could dislike America, let alone hate him, with the huge heart given to him.
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Also I like his relationship with Belgium although maybe not perfectly accurate. Belgium doesn't really seem to represent Belgians themselves to me. Don't take me wrong but it just seems she is way more enthusiastic and outgoing than I consider most Belgians are. Instead Belgians tend to be more reserved I think.
Well. that's about it I think. I might have missed new stuff that has come out about the Netherlands but it's how I remembered it from some months ago. Wonder though how Luxembourg will turn out, it would be awesome to see Benelux together.
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Anyways, yeah, I'm proud of Alfred. I love the humor they put into his character because there is some truth to it, but there is also a true kindness under his gigantic ego, and intelligence under all his random acts of stupidity I think that suits Americans, since we can come off as egotistical idiots at first without even meaning too, but when you get know a person (from any country) a little, that's just a fake persona they put up, and I think that's what Alfred has for protection. What I like most about him though is that he is a really nice person to the few friends he has (Kiku , Arthur [I think their arguments are just part of their relationship;not true arguments, since they obviously care for one another a lot in the anime], and I loved how Alfred treated LIt./Torris). I think his kindness under the surface really showed in Paint it White.
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And his naming skills are pure awesomeness, seriously.So yes, I'm proud of him. ^^no subject
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Well, but I love Austria because he is so ... elegant..? :D I can't describe it.
And I TOTALLY love AusHun (♥OTP♥) and It's funny... Every Austrian Hetalian hates PruHun (me included) - I don't know why.
Ah, yes, and I must say I totally hate the fact that in every freakin' fanfiction Austria and Germany and Prussia (well, let's say all the Germans) speak in such an creepy accent. You know, so instead of "I like this cake" they say "I like zhis cake". If you go to Vienna one day, you will see that no one speaks here like that. Austrians speak generally a very good English (because English and German are related languages).
Ok, then...
Hat mich gefreut, dass ich hier meine Meinung hinschreiben durfte! Danke für's Lesen meines Beitrags & jetzt Auf Wiedersehen! ☻