QUOTE (InuyashaX @ Aug 22 2006, 11:00 PM)If only i were Japanese, i could watch an endless amount of anime and understand it perfectly, You can learn japanease and the same result would be accomplished.
Beside, being japanease is far more than speaking a language. It is a culture and a lot of other things. Personnaly, I am very proud of who I am and where I come from. I would not trade it for anything else.
QUOTE (Paganini @ Aug 22 2006, 11:34 PM)then it's like an English speaker who's watching anime in English dub version. Since many anime fans in North America hate anime in dub version, which is spoken in their first language, so I don't think I'd appreciate anime the same way as I do right now if I were born Japanese in the first place. It is not that english speaker hate watching it in their native tongue. My first language is not english, yet I don't like dubs. What people don't like is the fact it is translated.
For instance, I always watch american movies in english because that is how they were made. But when I watch something from Quebec, there is no way I would watch it in english. I want the original french version.
Why? Simply because when an author writes something, he is thinking in a specific language. When you translate, you loose the subtility. Some double meaning and word play are lost.