What’s it like being Half White in Japan? 

This was depicted in the show "The Sympathizer". The mother says to her son he's not half of anything, he's two of everything

My children aren't half or double anything, they just are. That works for them, and it works for everyone around them too.They didn't have any choice in who their parents are.

That’s not how it works in reality, though 😂😅 Even in terms of absorbing culture - as you’ve seen from this video, people can’t learn both cultures at a 100%. That’s because people have a finite amount of time, especially the formative time of their childhood. They can choose to spend their time on learning and practicing one culture or the other, but they can’t get double the time to spend an equal amount of time on learning both.

You could use the term duel, meaning two.

A brilliant way of looking at it! A twice enriched life.

Pretty much every single person in Netherlands speaks perfect english. I have never even met a Dutch person that doesn't... They learn it in school just as much as their native language.

*HIS ACCENT* was very interesting - he sounded mostly neutral English, a bit colloquial English, a bit Australian, and a tiny bit Japanese accented English.

​@@elrey8876 He doesn't sound Australian to me at all.

His accent isn't super Dutch either, is it? My former BIL was Dutch. This guy sounds mildly Scottish?

@@elrey8876yes there are a few words where there’s an Australian inflection like when he says Tokyo I guess it’s the Dutch version of English that gets into that South African/Australian accent sometimes.

She might be carrying recessive genes from her dad. So if she finds another half Japanese guy and they have a 1 in 4 chance of having a blonde blue eyed half asian child.

They don't like outsiders, when will you guys finally understand this? They don't want anyone who is not Japanese, just visit and leave.

He's a journalist, it's his job. He's not going to get any information during the interview if he does all the talking.

Yes, this gentleman really stands out in manners, tones, gaze everything. Really bringing out the inner persons by letting even the most shy persons at ease.

that's a good point if you're interviewing the whole point is to hear the other person speak

Her mannerisms are Japanese, her speech is American, her mentality is in-between

What about the second girl? What if she reads your comment and feels slighted?

@@RickyDemetro Who cares? What if I feel slighted for every time a woman complimented some other man instead of me? Do you understand how absurd your question is?

Do you not care about others?

@@RickyDemetro Ricky, seek help. You have some serious issues. Your thinking is insane.

do you speak fluent japanese ?

Excellent job opening doors to success by instilling the value and opportunities that come with learning and education!

Great Job!!

@@LoganRaven Yes, I'm so weird, I got 日本語能力試験１級 *twice*. But I sadly forgot how to write most of the kanji I once could write, since computers and cell phones took over.

I think it is very important to speak Japanese and spend time in Japan 🇯🇵 or live permanently in Japan 🇯🇵😘😘 if you have any Japanese genes 🇯🇵♥️ you have to put effort into your Japanese genes 🇯🇵 being felt within yourself 🇯🇵♥️👏🏻👏🏻

She has a distinctly American way of speaking

she's been on before too if i remember correctly

@@vaakdemandante8772 And that's one reason why she'll never be 'Japanese enough' for society.

She’s beautiful! I think she looks more Japanese than White American. Some Japanese do look Eurasian without being one.

she sees herself as white and will marry a yt guy

Yes, I agree. You can really tell Takashi loves doing this and really cares about the people he's interviewing and is genuinely interested in their story.

I agree! ♡ いいですね〜❤

​@@25SoupyHe definitely does not care about Japan though.

It's legit. Better quality than a large percentage of material on social media. Cheers...☀

Great mic first off I think, as well he interviewed everyone in a quiet place with great environment. Great cadence eloquent questions.

in belgium just below the netherlands a lot of people speak english, dutch, french, german

@@sergsergesrgergseg I don't think the german part is correct.

@@sergsergesrgergseg in Switzerland too, there are many trilinguals with german, french, english or italian

​@@sergsergesrgergsegThe two dominant languages in Belgium are Flemish in the north on the Dutch border and French in the south. Flemish is a varient of Dutch. The g is not as guteral and said more like the letter H. There are some variations in vocabulary and word order. For the most part Flemish speakers and Dutch speakers can understand each other. In the Netherlands, children are taught English very early. In large cities Dutch people speak English better than most native speakers. Some Dutch have difficulty pronouncing the English TH the letter D is substituted..

@@ferdi6594 In Belgium mother tongue 1 % is German

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Not such a beautiful culture. A foreigner is forever a foreigner , can't ` make real friends, and even the children later in life might resent the foreign side of one parent...Its a sad country, mainly.

Her experience has been largely positive as she herself of mentions that she has been treated in a way that puts her on a pedestal.

I think that she's a really positive person. Loads of people (Americans specially) would find a way to be offended by that. Her mindset of not attributing to malice what could be explained by ignorance is key for a positive life experience. That girl will not only be able to do whatever she wants, but also she'll be happy with her decisions.

She's cringe as hell

That's probably why your people are so beautiful. I've watched Eli from Russia's tour through former soviet central Asian republics and all Turkic peoples, specially Kazakh, are very beautiful, polite and hospitable. You should be very proud of your heritage

In the past, there used to be a gradation of points where East and West intersected by land, but now that the world is connected by sea and air, it seems that a mix of East and West, as well as North and South, like yours, is occurring all over the world. The world may come to see people who look like you all over the world.

@@polionly9632 unlikely. Brazil and the US, for example, are multiethnic and diverse, yet loads and loads of people continue to mingle, yet they "self-segregate" (meaning reproductively). Still there are people who prefer never to leave their communities, not having the chance to meet diverse people

yes, but there are only 20 million people in that very large country and they have little influence on world affairs.

@@GustavoPinho89 that is true though and I think a lot of it boils down to family identity and family pressure to be with somebody that looks like them

in the "islands", we call them "hapa-haole"......imo, the desire to have these kinda kids is reason why I see the HUGE influx / increase of asian women dating or married to caucasian.

It really depends. We have words to describe people who don't turn up so great.

If Asian mothers of future hapas had sliders to adjust the racial ratio beforehand...

@@yo2trader539list of words....be prepared for some negative ones: spoiled, conceited, bully, brat, god's gift to man/woman, brash.

I have 2 nephews that are half Japanese half American. My sister is 100% Japanese though both she and I grew up in Paraguay. The questions that the interviewer asked can be re-asked to my 2 nephews. Culturally speaking, if I was in Japan, I would feel as a foreigner. Living in the US, I feel Japanese sometimes, and sometimes as a Paraguayan. I am pretty sure that if I were to move back to Paraguay, I would feel more American. Though confusing that's my identity.

BARILOCHE USHUAIA A R G E N T I N A

Grass is always greener on the other side. I've met many foreign exchange students where I live, in reality these people who travel a lot are not living all that interesting, they're travelling because nothing is binding them to anywhere.

It's crazy how good well-off parents can make your life.

Meanwhile I'm roting in my room in Brazil Great

it is nice to see

ARGENCHINA

yuh

Good job uncle Tom's cabin 😅

Do you mean less gesticulating when speaking Japanese? Hands movement are deem violent.

@@ManChan-w5p JAVIER MILEI ARGENTINA

@@ManChan-w5poh wow why is that?

Damn Ashley stop messing with your hair it is so irritating!

I once visited a friend Paris, a Japanese woman who moved from Japan to France to marry her French boyfriend. One morning I met her at her apartment and she spoke to me in English which was almost perfect. My friend, Akiko, was straightforward to me like many Americans are with their friends. Then we went to a cafe and she spoke to the staff in absolutely perfect French (French speakers think French is her native language) and her body language and manner was a bit more soft and feminine than when she spoke to me in English. Finally, she had to go pay her rent to her landlord who was an older Japanese man. When she conversed with him it was like a bodily transformation. Akiko was very, very soft spoken and she even seemed somehow smaller in stature. When we left I said "what was that?!" and Akiko said "I know. It is so strange but with older Japanese males I am expected to act a bit subservient.."

And racist xenophobia.

​@@SarahNGeti I dislike your disingenuous comment. A lot of people from different backgrounds and ethnicities love Japanese culture and Japan as a nation.

@@kennymichaelalanya7134 Yes, you are 100% right! That has nothing to do with the Xenophobia existing in Japanese culture. I love Japanese also.

@@kennymichaelalanya7134 The first girl interviewed talked about half Japanese people she knew that were born and raised in Japan being turned away from restaurants because they didn't look Japanese. What would you call that if not racism and/or xenophobia? There is a lot to love and admire about Japan but don't be naive, there are problems in Japan as there are everywhere.

@@Jambobist it's probably a language barrier or etiquette issue and it looks like some restaurants only take in Phone reservations which they do even in USA. I know because my fiancée is asian. Again, never say something is racist or xenophobic unless you can be absolutely sure about it. Please don't be judgemental.

100%.

Go to Hawaii. Large happa population.

What is "too Asian" though in a foreign country, haha? Maybe I just grew up around very open minded and multi cultural people here in Europe... but I have never met someone who is considered "too Asian". If anything, I've always considered Asian people to be very nice, and quite modest!

@@millanferende6723 I can't speak for all asian ethnicities, and I don't have any experience myself. But looking at interviews like these, I think for half Japanese it may be that they are somewhat reserved compared to maybe say Americans, but they are more outgoing and open than the average Japanese. Or it may be consuming rice for every meal (which a lot of Asian counties have as a staple diet)

Yes, this is why you don't mix or swirl with other groups and have kids with them.

I'd be careful about talking about being proud to be white lmaoo Edit: idc if you're proud to be white, im just saying that it might get you in trouble. A lot of you are assuming I hold a leftist position on this - I don't lmao, quite the opposite

Hapa

@@s210761 Yes! When you say you are proud of your race, one should say it with more gusto no matter what race it is. And one should always know that people that race bait are human trash.

@@s210761Anyone can be proud of their heritage or none at all. This is hypocrisy. Y’all would rather teach people to hate them selves for being the “ wrong ethnicity” rather than proud

@acetofresh1 hey man you go out saying white pride as much as you want, I won't stop you. Just don't be surprised when people start raising eyebrows lmao

DEI hiring is definitely helping hapa / whasian / eurasians getting more contracts.

@@eddo2001 Hotness is a universal currency.

Asking?

Ask them?

My neighbors friend is half Japanese and half Israeli. Very interesting and unique combination.

lol why don't you just ask them? 🤷🏽‍♀

japan & usa are both very racist countries. for asian/caucasian mixed ppl, they probably have a better time living in central asian countries. at least your appearance doesnt stand out. everyone around u looks like asian/caucasian mixes....😎😎😎

Thanks ❤

Thank you. 😉

@@masashinakamura61 You're welcome! :)

peak human evolution

He knows his audience..

Yes, Dutch is like if German and English had a baby 👶

Your identity is not your appearance, it's your values, moral and personality... People reacting or commenting about your appearance (if not insulting) is something normal, humans tend to describe what they see, is how we interact. If you feel "frustrated" or offended by someone asking or stating that you are from at ethnicity, then you need some mental help and need to stop victimizing yourself

I think most people want to be accepted as they are. When ethnicity, race, language, culture get in the way it's time to look at what we want in our friends and filter out the stuff that gets in the way. When we look inside our self and discover that the person we see inside is more of the person we want people to accept than the person that looks back at us when we look in the mirror, we can start to filter out bullshit that comes up in conversation and interaction and set our sites on the people who have the ability to see more of the person inside than the person that reflects back to us in the mirror.

When you do another video, I like to about the custom for religions, unless you're not aloud to talk about that. Thanks

@@WGLunexcellent topic suggestion

be comfortable about who you think you are and in yourself. Don't base it on people's opinion, that's never a good thing. @@paulitovz

I suppose the people he's interviewing are spontaneously and randomly chosen in the street to fit the topic he's interested to discuss at that certain point, right? So I wonder if he or you could just as easily recognize the half-Asian mix you are talking about at first sight. I mean you can generally spot a a half white/half black/half Asian race mix right away by just looking at the person. The mix you're talking about is of the same race but different ethnicities, so I don't see it beeing easy to spot such individuals spontaneously in the street. I can't imagine him walking around and asking people 'are you half Japanese half Chinese' or whatever... or how do you picture the approach? Not to say that people over here are interested in this aspect but as an white European I cannot tell what mixed white ethnicities people in the street are unless they start speaking and they happen to have an accent. So ..

​@@tymeamora He could simply ask online and meet people. No need to always try and find people on the street.

I would also really appreciate that! Quite often you also hear from mixed other Asian/Japanese that they are treated like normal Japanese ppl if they don't really look visibly different to normal Japanese ppl. On the other hand I have also heard that Japanese guys who were interviewed said "my classmate was half Filipino and I thought she/ he is really attractive" I'd definitely support this kind of videos for most mixed ppl in Japan are mixed Japanese / East Asians and South East Asians❤ I'd be happy if you gave them a voice

Fr, or even broadening the "what do Japanese people think of foreigners?" To include more than just white and black. As an Asian American, specifically Vietnamese American, I am interested in how Japanese ppl view other Asians

@@lost_inTranslation Let me answer as a Japanese, all non-Japanese are foreigners, whether Westerners or Asians. For Japanese people, Westerners are somewhat more familiar than Asian foreigners. This is because we have been learning about industry, science, technology, medicine, etc. from the West for about 150 years, and we have strong diplomatic and trade ties with the West now and in the past. By the way, many Japanese people feel close to Taiwanese people as if they are their relatives.

_"Once the sun is down, no one goes out at night."_ Which part of Mexico did you visit? The country is *huge* and there are cities and cosmopolitan neighbourhoods with people enjoying restaurants, galleries, cafés, and bars that close when the sun is about to come out again, that have a microscopic percentage of the crime rate of some cities or neighbourhoods in the US. I mean, it's like going on holiday to Belmont or Fifth Ward, and stating the obvious.

@@Floating.Point. veracruz .in a small town called tezonapa.

I live in hawaii and there are a lot of half japanese, half white people, a lot of them are beautiful, handsome, and so are half chinese, half korean, half filipino, with half white are also attractive.

ARGENCHINA

Yeah his jawline and his hair are very non-Japanese. But I think if he came to California he'd fit right in. Nobody would really notice or care "what" he is. He'd just be a guy here.

No, we've seen pretty ugly ones too. It really depends on their parents.

Indeed!

ARGENCHINA

*accept the compliments

@@alukuhito Thank you. Apple dictation sucks. I use it for writing my book, “Endo’s Deity” and have to fix so much. Got lazy here :(

That's what it's like growing up as a mongrel. You never fit into any society. If you want your kids to have a normal life, don't breed outside your race.

ARGENCHINA

@@gato-grande : BARBIERI ??

First time ever seen other way around

Yh his English is basically perfect

When I first heard him speak English I thought he had an Irish (Dublin) accent. I used to live in the Netherlands and I've never heard Dutch people speak English with such a pronounced emphasis on the deep uuuuw sound for U. That was an interesting interview. @@jimbojimbo6873

Wait, but Dutch people speak amazing english

He speaks three languages. As an American, I can barely speak proper English.

​@@LOL-qr9dy not all of them, that's a misunderstanding. Ever heard our prime-minister Rutte speak English? Terrible accent! 😂

🥰that’s wonderful so must be so beautiful or so handsome you can even be a model 😊in Japan how beautiful are those two cultures

The real question is, how has Takashi not interviewed you yet?!

@@hildaortiz7537 Not all half Japanese people look like models, I know you are trying to be polite, but when half Asian people don't fit the stereotype, it can make them feel out of place and like there is something wrong with them for not looking that way.

hey by any chance, are you using instagram? I'm a female from sri lanka (23 years old) now it's so hard to make japanese friends.. i wonder if you'd like to be friends with me 🤗💕

I call myself bi cultural, and love every second, but the corollary of that you are never truly "at home".

if we said the opposite about who is 99% more handsome, I bet it would be controversial, right?

He is better looking than most people in general. There is no need to target caucasian people like that unless you are a racist.

​​​​​​@@nenikamit's not about racism. So many Caucasians think that they are the epitome of beauty saying that especially Asian men are ugly and unattractive. So it's really valid and the boy is half Caucasian - so no racism here. Nobody is talking about a race which he is not. It's rather your comment which is racist - excluding him from Caucasians.

​​@@NoctLightCloud the boy is both and given the fact that he is seen as pure Asian in Europe he certainly knows what ppl often say about Asians/Asian men. It's also obvious that the comment is targeted towards the boy himself.

@@samojede6776 how is the comment targeted towards the boy only when it has the sentence "more handsome than at least 99% of all pure caucasian people"? Don't you see the casual racism there? Which is why I commented that it would be controversial if I said that about any other race having 99% less attractive "pure". But against caucasians, ofc as always on the internet, I guess we can all say whatever we want.

Oops OG not OJ!

ハーフの人は外見のみで判断されると認識してる人が多いみたいだけど、振舞い・歩き方・服装・雰囲気・考え方・礼儀などで日本人かどうか判断されると思う。高橋藍、酒井豪徳、室伏浩二、小野田紀美、玉城デニー、沢尻エリカを見て『外国人』だと認識する日本人はいないはず。血筋よりも育ちの方が圧倒的に重要だと思う。

The Current Governor of Okinawa is Half-Japanese, and he really hates the US like many in his generation. Born on a US base in Japan means you were technically born in the US. (The legal address should be State of California.) Okinawa was under US military occupation until 1972. They were so poor and brutalized under US occupation, many of them had to emigrate to countries like Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil during that era or had to marry US military personnel just to survive. After WWII, there were many sexual crimes by US military and prostitution, so special orphanages were set up for babies born from those circumstances. Most of them were sent to the US for adoption because they were not wanted in Japan even by their mothers. Children of foreign fathers weren't legally eligible for natural-born Japanese citizenship until Japanese Citizenship Law was revised in 1985. The only exception were children of single mothers. Japanese is a shared language, culture, and identity. Either you're a member of Japan or you're not. Ancestry is not what makes somebody Japanese or not. It's why a naturalized citizen can serve as Japanese politicians. The only person in this video who seem to understand what being Japanese means is the lady who grew up in Boston.

You mean the 0-6 minute interview or do you mean the second girl and you mistyped the timecode?

@@Arcessitor I don't know what they're talking about here, but I do know that the Ainu are Asians that don't have slanted eyes as the people of Cambodia, Loas, and Thailand don't have slanted eyes either(maybe that's what they are talking about in this video-I reject racism and I am just making an observation). Just because people in Asia don't have slanted eyes like Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia does not make them Caucasian. The Ainu and those from Siberia and East Asia are the ancestors of the Indigenous People of North, Central, and South America as they crossed the Bering Straits 15,000-30,000 years ago.

Shes is damnn fine

@@alvineff It is not her fault that she is mixed ancestry, but it would be her fault if she chose to identify with the white European oppressor called Stockholm Syndrome.

​@johnpolitis7929 there once were dinosaurs. They had slanty eyes.

True, the best way is to instill the victim mentality from an early age. Preferably straight out of the womb. Your first words to your newborn should be "Welcome, you're a victim".

wishing your daughter the best :)

wishing your daughter the best :)

This happens a lot to people with mixed ethnicities(myself and siblings included). When you can’t particularly associate yourself with either of your ethnic backgrounds, people of mixed race will usually find solace in a community that isn’t tied to to their ethnic heritage. Like sports leagues, music groups, book clubs, and other hobbies where you feel like you can belong for what you do and enjoy. Instead of belonging for your ethnicity. There’s nothing wrong with being respectfully prideful about your ethnic heritage/identity. It’s very good to feel comfortable in your own skin, and to have community with those who may have shared your experiences. But as this video shows, many can feel stuck between worlds if they have more than 1 ethnicity.

The largest Muslim nations are in Asia. I don't think you finding a Indonesian enclave would give your kids different results

@satansshadow2163 we're not Muslim, we're Asian (Half Chinese, 1/4 Japanese, 1/4 Filipino). We just live in a predominantly Muslim part of town which we didn't know we moved into until school started. My kids had to start Muay Thai to defend themselves at school from the countless bullies.

@jonahwillis2781 yes very true indeed. As I was watching the many videos of mixed Japanese, I felt bad for them but then realized my family is in a similar kind of experience but in a reverse kind of scenario.

@@BWT599 just convert find a Singapore community

Pog

Yes, with the language thing that happens in every country. When you’re in Italy greet someone with “Bongiorno” or สวัสดีครับ when you are in Thailand. Most people are proud of their country (except Iranians and Canadians) and their languages. So it just shows a little respect to use a few words of the official,language if you can. I worked in Japan for a couple of years. I’m a 6’1” white man. Learning a little bit about the culture I knew that I would never be given same treatment as one Japanese Man would give another, but it’s not my culture. It’s theirs. So it is not up to me. I will say that I was always treat so well, that it was almost embarrassing, especially by people in my company including the Chairman. I’m here looking at this Channel because I have two very western looking half Thai small children. I want to be able to pass them wisdom if they ever have a conflict from a twisted person that cast dispersions them. Last count I’ve been to 62% of earths countries. Not everyone is nice.

@@bearlemley Well hopefully your kids will have similarly good experiences in Japan as me (who probably looks like them) by the time they're adults, if it's not totally overrun by woke neo-Marxism from Anglo leftists by then. My dad had way better experiences with people in Southeast Asia when he was younger than I did in Korea and Japan (which were still very good overall; I was treated way better in Japan and Korea than how I'm treated in the US where even the government and corporations are openly rxcist against whxte people and Asians), so hopefully even if Japan and Korea go woke, your kids can still be treated well in Southeast Asia. Since Southeast Asia is a bit poorer and more conservative, it'll take at least a decade or a few longer for the woke mind virus to take them over. (Then again, Latin America is already infected really, really badly considering how poor they are. I think Asians are more insulated from self-hxting identity politics stuff that makes no sense than ethnic European countries are, though. I guess culture and wealth/development levels are both factors.) I think on the note about Iranians, it depends if they're leftists and/or hardcore Islxmic identitarians, in which case they will be proud of it like some people I met in East Asia, but if they're more of a dissident or liberal and secular, then they are aware of why they left and distance themselves from it. (Or they could just be a normie who is aware that it's an adversary of the West and downplay how much they like it or whatever.) Same goes for people from China I think; they're either anti-whxte, anti-Western, anti-Japanese cxmmies and Chinese ultra-nationalists, or they're pro-whxte, pro-Western, pro-Japanese liberals, conservatives, capitalists, patriotic Western nationalists, etc. I think woke leftist Canadians will be proud of Canada in contrast with how much more they hxte the US and Americans, but also of course still hxte themselves and their country by definition of being woke leftists. And the right-wing Canadians will be proud of some abstract theoretical past version of their country and heritage, but actually hxte and be embarassed by what it is in reality.

​@@ShimobeSama can America racist against whites and Asians? Did I read that properly? LOL Asians have issues here just like any other non-white group, but this concept of racism against white (in America, bwahaha) is stupid idiotic moronic and foolish. Also signals some kind of cry baby mentality like why why don't everybody love us because we are oppressed the hell out of everyone else.

I had a fight on my insta with woke Canadians. It was sad because I had good contact with them before until one of them used politics on her hamster page and was placing someone else's post online to bash that person publically and I said I disagreed with it and then she and her friends unfollowed me. I wasn´t aware how woke people could be. @@ShimobeSama

​@ShimobeSama I'm a white woman in the US, and yes, the way whites and Asians are treated is absolutely ridiculous. Anyone can openly be racist to us with no consequences. Sad times. I hope the woke mind virus doesn't spread to Asia. That would be horrible. That being said, I watch a lot of Korean dramas, and a couple of them on Netflix have had some woke nonsense. I just figured that was because of woke Netflix. Ugh...

ARGENCHINA

Interesting observation, Abe. Do you think he is more open around the man, and more reserved and shy around the women?

Right!!!