Hello Comm! I'm a long time lurker in the fandom, hetalia fan and MUN (model united nations) nerd. At the Southern California/Los Angeles Hetalia Day events I had the great pleasure of hosting a Hetalia-style Mock(model) UN Debate as part of the UN Day celebrations. Sign ups were on the spot and we soon had 19 countries represented!!
The topic (General Assembly):
It's time to decide on an official UN Uniform that consists of Business casual, Formal, and ~*~*Party*~*~ wear. Nations will debate fashion and function, bringing the best of their home cultures and style sensibilities to the table to (hopefully) come up with a design.
After 45 minutes of heated and hilarious debate, some harassment, and brilliant on-the-spot roleplay, the Assembly adopted the resolution:
Everyone wears whatever they want, besides France.
( favorite photos and video from the event )(
Click the cake fut for a play-by-play report with more photos and video of the debate and speeches!)
If you're familiar with MUN you must have had a few Hetalia moments. MUN, whether at high school or college level can get ironically close to the soap-opera-comedy style of Hetalia and it was too interesting to not attempt the conference. It wasn't straight-rules and we were very pressed for time, but overall it was a surprisingly fun success!
Hopefully, this can be the start of more organized and larger HetaMUN conferences or panel/debates! If allowed, I'm aiming to host a more organized one at a major California Anime Convention. I know there's no shortage of those interested... It'll just be a question of logistics and equipment.
If you're interested in starting a HetaMUN conference, a few resources (sample rules, procedure, delegate packets, and all proposed topics) as well as the basics of how things were set up can be found on the
HetaMUN website for this LA test run :3 also, don't hesitate to ask, especially if you're a fellow(or former) MUN-er ♥
Thanks again to everyone who helped organize and participated in this crack academic experiment! ♥ UN-tan loves all the nations, even through sexual harassment and atomic bombs.
x-posted to
hetaliaday