Japan on American Otaku

So...I was just wondering, what do actual Japanese otaku think of us? Is there some sort of gap between us, or are otaku pretty much a universal culture?

In example, in computer fanboys, you have basically 3 distinct groups that don't really get along: Windows users, Apple fanboys (and girls), and the Linux users. Just wondering if that existed here lol

Well Japan it's actually taken rather offensively if you call someone an otaku, so it's probably strange to them they we take the label in stride lol.

I thought they'd kinda grown into it, like some Americans eventually accepted slurs like nerd and geek lol but yeah. That would be pretty weird xD

Kind of what twitch was saying, I had thought that they were more or less accepting the term "Otaku" and that it wasn't nearly as bad of a thing as it use to be. I could be completely wrong though. /shrug