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hetalia2011-04-29 06:57 pm
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A questionnaire - Fandoms in different countries
Hello Everyone!
I have a favor to ask for – that’s to fill the questionnaire below.
I’m writing an article for Polish Hetalia FanSite (www.hetalia.org) about fandoms in foreign countries and how people in different countries see Hetalia. Obviously, my knowledge of these is quite limited and therefore I need help of Hetalia fans – you! The questionnaire will consist of around 10 questions and will ask about more general view on certain topics within your country rather than your own. It will take you only about 15 minutes to complete – only few sentences of an answer will be enough! - But it will be such a great help for me!
So here goes the questionnaire:
1) What country are you from?
2) Was your country already made a character of Hetalia?
3) If it was, how fans in your country reacted to that personification? Do you guys like it or is there something you would like to change in it?
4) If not, is there an ‘official’ OC that was made in your fandom in place of your missing country? How does it looks like, how does it reflect upon your country's features?
5) Can you define who is the most popular character of Hetalia in your country?
6) What about the pairings? Is there any pairings that seems to be liked by the most of people in your country or is it very divided?
7) What is the most common view on the character of Poland? Is the Feliks, how he was created by the author, easily accepted?
8) How does the fandom in your country works? Do you have any particular site or a forum that most of fans seem to use? Can you tell how many Hetalia fans, approximately, there is in your country?
9) Is Hetalia seen more of a humorous manga that shouldn’t be taken seriously? Is many people trying to apply actual historical meaning to it?
10) Is there any popular memes (for example: Iceland's white boots, Hotland’s…pardon me, Netherlands’ tulips etc.), sayings, tags that you see as common only in your country?
And that is it :D!
Thank you all for taking part in this questionnaire! It means a lot!
[ I've got cherishedsaulie's approval for posting the questionnaire]
I have a favor to ask for – that’s to fill the questionnaire below.
I’m writing an article for Polish Hetalia FanSite (www.hetalia.org) about fandoms in foreign countries and how people in different countries see Hetalia. Obviously, my knowledge of these is quite limited and therefore I need help of Hetalia fans – you! The questionnaire will consist of around 10 questions and will ask about more general view on certain topics within your country rather than your own. It will take you only about 15 minutes to complete – only few sentences of an answer will be enough! - But it will be such a great help for me!
So here goes the questionnaire:
1) What country are you from?
2) Was your country already made a character of Hetalia?
3) If it was, how fans in your country reacted to that personification? Do you guys like it or is there something you would like to change in it?
4) If not, is there an ‘official’ OC that was made in your fandom in place of your missing country? How does it looks like, how does it reflect upon your country's features?
5) Can you define who is the most popular character of Hetalia in your country?
6) What about the pairings? Is there any pairings that seems to be liked by the most of people in your country or is it very divided?
7) What is the most common view on the character of Poland? Is the Feliks, how he was created by the author, easily accepted?
8) How does the fandom in your country works? Do you have any particular site or a forum that most of fans seem to use? Can you tell how many Hetalia fans, approximately, there is in your country?
9) Is Hetalia seen more of a humorous manga that shouldn’t be taken seriously? Is many people trying to apply actual historical meaning to it?
10) Is there any popular memes (for example: Iceland's white boots, Hotland’s…pardon me, Netherlands’ tulips etc.), sayings, tags that you see as common only in your country?
And that is it :D!
Thank you all for taking part in this questionnaire! It means a lot!
[ I've got cherishedsaulie's approval for posting the questionnaire]
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1) What country are you from?
-Finland.
2) Was your country already made a character of Hetalia?
-Yes.
3) If it was, how fans in your country reacted to that personification? Do you guys like it or is there something you would like to change in it?
-I know lot of people, who feels that Finland should be manlier character, who is always drunk, grumpy, hates Sweden and swears and cries for his horrible life.
I'm very relieved that he is not like that. Finland's character is based in that time, when he still was part of Sweden. Also, many people hasn't ever heard name "Tino", but in this part of Finland where I'm living, it's kind of popular name of young boys. I'm still sure, that Himaruya meaned name "Timo", because Tino is pretty new name.
4) If not, is there an ‘official’ OC that was made in your fandom in place of your missing country? How does it looks like, how does it reflect upon your country's features?
-N/A
5) Can you define who is the most popular character of Hetalia in your country?
-I believe it's Prussia, Russia or Nordics.
6) What about the pairings? Is there any pairings that seems to be liked by the most of people in your country or is it very divided?
-I think it's USUK, FrUK and SuFin.
7) What is the most common view on the character of Poland? Is the Feliks, how he was created by the author, easily accepted?
-I like Poland. He is silly and little childish, but strong character. People usually see him as a Pony guy with skirt and pink house. Usually surrounded by rainbows.
I still know some fans, who sees his deeper side.
8) How does the fandom in your country works? Do you have any particular site or a forum that most of fans seem to use? Can you tell how many Hetalia fans, approximately, there is in your country?
-There is lots of meetings all over the year, where usually comes around 10-35 people. There is even sleepover-meetings! I think almost every Hetalia fan, who lives in Helsinki, or near of that, knows each other. I know few little forums and fansites, but I think most of hetards are in Facebook and IRC-Galleria (largest social networking website in Finland). There Finnish fans can talk about Hetalia and organize more meetings.
9) Is Hetalia seen more of a humorous manga that shouldn’t be taken seriously? Is many people trying to apply actual historical meaning to it?
-I see it very humorous way. I believe that most of us does. Of course there can be exceptions, I don't know all the fans :')
10) Is there any popular memes (for example: Iceland's white boots, Hotland’s…pardon me, Netherlands’ tulips etc.), sayings, tags that you see as common only in your country?
- I believe there is, but I can't remember anything right now.