[ SECRET POST #2659 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2659 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's really common for Asian Americans to get this. Ultimately, whether questioning it is curiosity about another person's heritage or saying "you're not from around here," it boils down to the same sentiment- that the person in question is an outsider.

Not getting on you but the whole thing is pretty stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

In college, we had a blonde, blue-eyed, very, very white girl come along with a bunch of very obvious Japanese-looking students. The teacher doing the culture forum class asked her to leave because it was for Japanese students only. The girl actually was Japanese: her mother and father were both half-Japanese who were born/raised in Japan, and so she was born/raised in Japan, too. Couldn't speak a lick of English, either.

I was totally reminded of this from your Asian American comment, especially because I see it a lot at work...Born-in-Japan people who don't look Asian :D

[(Anonymous)]

That's an interesting story, man. I often wonder what the experience is like for mixed race people living in Japan since it is so heterogeneous.

[(Anonymous)]

I think while it's becoming more common to see (I live in Japan, and I need two hands to count all my mixed race adult Japanese friends, and I'd need toes to count the young mixed kids I know of), but it still isn't widely accepted. Honestly, I think it's easier for Japanese to label in "Japanese" and "Foreigner" by appearance than to accept for it to be any different.

[(Anonymous)]

That's really interesting. Japan is a pretty interesting place for the reason that it is so homogeneous so the Japanese culture and perspective is unique among more mixed countries like the UK or the US.