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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]
no subject
Good ol' US of A!
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?
A lot of people I've talked to that like the show really love America and find it funny that he's sometimes a jerk because of stereotypes and not everyone is like that, but he's a likeable person.
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? Um... Prussia definitely, and England I think too has gotten a lot of recognition. I've seen a lot of Seychelle cosplayers as well, so maybe she's also getting some love?
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 know that many people are at least either USUK or FRUK lovers and that the fans are divided on who likes what. Everyone either loves or at least accepts GerIta from what I've seen, and Giripan is also popular.
7) What is the most common view on the character of Poland? Is the Feliks, how he was created by the author, easily accepted? He is accepted, if anything, in my parts. A few of my friends really love the character!
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?
The fandom probably doesn't work much differently than other fandoms. Um, most Hetalia fans I know either use LJ or Facebook to interact. LOTS. They just don't go to my school D: but when I go to conventions there are a ton of lovers!
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 believe that this is a mix between people in the US, but from people I know we get actual historical meanings and it makes us want to learn more history (heck we learned more than school history classes!). And thanks to the historical aspect of it, fans here are more accepting to other countries, such as Germany (and learning that there was a country called Prussia! I didn't know that before Hetalia!) But we do get humor from watching it as well :)
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? The memes? Um, from what I know, Iggy's eyebrows have been popular :D
And I'm only saying what I've seen/heard in my country and this is my own personal opinion :) just saying~