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Re:A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself by edmccard on Friday June 05, 2015 @08:46AM (#9665136)
>where mixed race is the norm ... brazil ...the largest japanese population outside of japan is there. i think they might have a concept of hafu there

Yes, but I'd bet that the connotations of "hafu" in a society where mixed race is the norm are very different from those where it is unusual.

So much so that you might consider it to be a different word, even if it happens to be spelled the same.

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Re:A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself by beachstartup on Friday June 05, 2015 @10:57AM (#9665889)
being half japanese in brazil is rare, and the brazilians have a word for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilian

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