Re:A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself
by jusben1369 on Friday June 05, 2015 @08:35AM
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It's hard to really answer it based on a relatively short article but I don't think she was being literal in the sense that no other culture has a term for someone of mixed race. My interpretation, and it's just that, is she was saying there's no other country outside Japan that has such a unique situation that you therefore really need a word that describes someone who is Japanese and is yet not Japanese at the same time.
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Re:A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself
by beachstartup on Friday June 05, 2015 @08:37AM
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yeah, that's also bullshit.
just off the top of my head, i can name: hawaii, the caribbean, brazil, parts of europe (italy comes to mind), east asia (especially places with large overseas diaspora like china and taiwan) all have identical cultural concepts, especially those with large populations living in america.
Re:A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself
by jusben1369 on Friday June 05, 2015 @08:42AM
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"In part that is because this is still such an extraordinarily homogenous society. Immigrants make up just one per cent of Japan's population" - Compare that to Brazil. So again, I don't think she's saying it in a literal sense.