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⌈ Secret Post #1611 ⌋

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Thank you for being one of the few people who comprehended it's "what if". I was beginning to wonder why all the comments were about moving and living there now and telling me Japan is like this and that. I know of the culture aside from the fandom and it's those types of comments which make me wonder if growing up there would've been easier. The "ghost ship" as it were.

I imagine the reverse situation would be a Caucasian kid growing up in Japan wondering if their life would've been easier if they grew up in America. Although they are Japanese because they grew up there, they don't look it. People they meet are always asking them what type of "white" they are. American, European, Australian? But they aren't any of them. People always being amazed at how fluent their Japanese is, but of course it is. It's their native language. And just knowing you obviously have another culture (you can see it in the mirror) but you don't know much about it because your family has decided to become completely immersed in Japanese culture.

That's how I feel living in America, but looking Japanese. Which is why I wonder what it would be like if I had grown up in Japan.

Hey OP, we are in different boats here as technically speaking, I am "connected" to my birth place even though I have grown distant to it. But I can say this - the best thing about growing up in conflict of cultures is that I have learned that there's no perfect culture background for me. I would love some elements of one but not so much the other elements, and trying to pick and mix one that suits me in every way would be as hard as pick a political party that suits me in every way.

It's confrontational, but in the end now I know that it's okay to not fully "belong" belong to anywhere. For that, I am glad.

Good luck, OP. :)

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