*”Despite her love for Japan — wearing a kimono, playing the shamisen and visiting shrines — being treated as a “foreigner” was a shock for her.”*
Surely this wasn’t a shock to her – or, at least, it may have been a shock when she first arrived in Japan but it certainly shouldn’t be a shock to her anymore. It may sadden her, perhaps, but not shock.
The truth is, simply, that Japanese people will always consider her as a foreigner *to some extent*.
Obviously, as she speaks the language and local dialect, she has assimilated a great deal, but I am sure she will never be regarded as fully “Japanese”, even though that is now her legal nationality.
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Telochim on
Essentialism is one of the yamato people’s integral social and religious beliefs. If you’re not born to both Japanese parents, then you’re not Japanese yourself and never will be. It may suck for many and clash with how the modern globalized world works, but that’s just how historically isolationistic, monoethnic societies are, and nothing short of a collapse and/or absorption by a stronger group would change that.
BunniYubel on
Well, I think the reality is, unless you’re ethnically Japanese, you’ll never truly be Japanese in the eyes of the Japanese lol, no matter how much you’ve assimilated to the society
Prestigious_Net_8356 on
You will be reading an article very similar to this in 25 years…
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*”Despite her love for Japan — wearing a kimono, playing the shamisen and visiting shrines — being treated as a “foreigner” was a shock for her.”*
Surely this wasn’t a shock to her – or, at least, it may have been a shock when she first arrived in Japan but it certainly shouldn’t be a shock to her anymore. It may sadden her, perhaps, but not shock.
The truth is, simply, that Japanese people will always consider her as a foreigner *to some extent*.
Obviously, as she speaks the language and local dialect, she has assimilated a great deal, but I am sure she will never be regarded as fully “Japanese”, even though that is now her legal nationality.
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Essentialism is one of the yamato people’s integral social and religious beliefs. If you’re not born to both Japanese parents, then you’re not Japanese yourself and never will be. It may suck for many and clash with how the modern globalized world works, but that’s just how historically isolationistic, monoethnic societies are, and nothing short of a collapse and/or absorption by a stronger group would change that.
Well, I think the reality is, unless you’re ethnically Japanese, you’ll never truly be Japanese in the eyes of the Japanese lol, no matter how much you’ve assimilated to the society
You will be reading an article very similar to this in 25 years…