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You are here: Home / Slang / かぶれる (kabureru) Meaning ‘Overly Influenced by Foreign Cultures’ in Japanese

かぶれる (kabureru) Meaning ‘Overly Influenced by Foreign Cultures’ in Japanese

September 12, 2018

Definition of kabureru

かぶれる (kabureru) means “be overly influenced by new ideas, especially a culture of a certain foreign country”. Similarly, people who overly advocate a certain country outside of their country are called “~ かぶれ”, e.g. “アメリカかぶれ (America かぶれ)”, that is “American-phile people”, who are overly influenced by the American culture. Ironically, however, many of them actually have a very shallow understanding of the culture/country, and often possess highly biased and overly generalised thoughts, such as “American people are very positive and enjoy their life, but people in our country are always depressed and gloomy”!

Although not used among the Japanese, you may also say “日本にほんかぶれ (Japan かぶれ)” to indicate a “weeaboo” or a person who is obsessed with the Japanese culture. 

Example Sentences

Ex1:
あいつイギリスに留学りゅうがく行いってからめっちゃかぶれてるよね
Since he studied in the U.K., he has been really かぶれてる (overly affected by the British culture).

Ex2:
牛肉ぎゅうにくを食たべるやつは西洋せいようかぶれだ
People who eat beef are 西洋かぶれ (overly affected by the western cultures; western-phile).
(Note): It is said that this idea used to be very common in Japan at the beginning of the Meiji era, 1800s.

Filed Under: Slang Tagged With: fanboy, influenced, obsessed, xenophile

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Comments

  1. Hugh Robertson says

    October 22, 2020 at 5:39 am

    I don’t think that this is really equivalent to “-phile”, which is a completely neutral suffix, having no connotation of excess.

    Reply
    • Takashi WadaTakashi says

      October 24, 2020 at 8:53 pm

      Thanks for your comment! I thought it’d be a negative term because of the word ‘paedophile’.

      Reply

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