[ SECRET POST #2727 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2727 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

DA

So, to paraphrase, "I get to decisively explain what I am. And what you are, for good measure!" No. Just ... no. If you consider yourself a perfectly assimilated American, that's your business. But you don't have any right to universalize your experience and trying to strip other people of their cultural identity is downright offensive. You don't get to judge whether the OP is Japanese or not, or if they're Japanese enough.

nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

All right, you have a point. Only the individual knows the truth about their own identity, and it can't be determined by an outsider.

Though I still side-eye anyone with a great amount of secondhand butthurt. It makes me think something else is going on there, and it has nothing to do with someone "ironically mocking" a language. (But if I'm wrong about that, then I'm wrong.)

[(Anonymous)]

But your cultural identity is not "Polish" and it is not "Chinese". That requires living (or, to some people who are super strict, growing up) respectively in Poland and in China and experiencing the culture first hand.

The experience of being surrounded by artifacts of your culture through your parents in a situation where it's a minority culture instead of the mass that sets your expectations in life is different.

Culture isn't just the clothes you wear and the food you eat and your music and your dances, it's also the political discourse, the realities of how friendships are made (very fucking different in Germany and UK, the only two places I've lived for prolonged periods of time), how family ties work, etc. You can't export that shit, because it requires you to be surrounded by other people in the same bubble.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

OP isn't "Japanese", though - the experience of growing up in Japan, completely inside Japanese culture, isn't something she has. Yes, I agree, her experience as the child of immigrant Japanese parents does make her "different" from other Americans. It makes her Japanese-American, certainly. It's not a matter of stripping someone of an identity, it's defining the obvious. No matter how traditional, having two parents from another culture raise you doesn't make you yourself of that culture. Your culture is the world you grow up in, how you interact, how you are conditioned to think and behave. Immigrant parents affects your culture, yeah, but cannot solely define it.