ABSTRACT This article investigates how young Australians who consume both Japanese and Korean popular culture conceptualise their multicultural identities. Through semi-structured interviews with 14 fans, I chart how they first encountered Japanese and Korean popular culture texts within the Australian mediascape and how this discovery impacted their self-identities. I then analyse the interviews to argue that these fans mobilise their consumption of East Asian popular culture to position themselves as more “Asia literate” than the general Australian public. In so doing, I demonstrate that continued consumption of both Japanese and Korean popular culture in the Australian context potentially boosts intercultural communicative competence and thus provides consumers with a cosmopolitan identity. I argue that this cosmopolitanism is based in perceptions of a heightened tolerance for cultural difference that allows the fans to destabilise “monocultural” understandings of Asia that are common in Australia.

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在澳大利亚消费日韩流行文化：“亚洲素养”与国际认同

摘要 本文调查同时消费日本和韩国流行文化的年轻澳大利亚人如何概念化他们的多元文化身份。通过对 14 位粉丝的半结构化采访，我描绘了他们如何在澳大利亚媒体环境中首次遇到日本和韩国流行文化文本，以及这一发现如何影响他们的自我认同。然后我分析了采访，认为这些粉丝动员他们对东亚流行文化的消费，将自己定位为比普通澳大利亚公众更“了解亚洲”。通过这样做，我证明了在澳大利亚环境中继续消费日本和韩国的流行文化可能会提高跨文化交际能力，从而为消费者提供国际化的身份。