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Originally Posted by Kyuu
How the hell is THAT possible?
I may understand East Coast. But in the West Coast? The part of the country, aside from Hawaii, that's closest to Asia? There should be a plenty of Asians running around. Likely, some of them have at least heard of anime. Futhermore, at least, every metro. area in the country has some anime convention of some sort.
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The simple answer is either its impossible or the original poster isn't doing their research well. They may have confused the awareness of "their neighborhood" with the entire city or the West Coast (a common bit of provincialism).
Every single *large* metropolitan city on the West Coast has an annual (or more) anime/manga convention, at least one store devoted to anime/manga (often a chain like Kinokuniya, B&N, etc), most college campuses have at least one pop culture club as do many high schools. Every major city usually has several japanese culture festivals and there's always at least one or two anime/manga booths in the vendor area.
That would be San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and surrounding cities. Eugene, Sacramento, Fresno, and dozens of smaller cities also come to mind.
Now it may be the
*average person* has no idea... but that's why the SCA calls them "mundanes" and the Hogwartz people call them "muggles" and the Star Trek (at least used to) call them "civilians".
"Average people" are the same people who mostly say "whut?" when you ask them about ANYTHING outside of last night's
Survivor or
Whatever Idol. The people who have trouble knowing what ocean they are near, how many states there, what political parties exist.... Blazing Saddles had an apt description:
'You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know..., morons.'
If the original poster would like a list of anime/manga activities near their "major city", they should ask (or do some googling).