[addictedKool]

Thank you for the reply, MMM!

I want to be realistic and have a back-up plan just in case I do not get into a medical school and realize medicine isn't really for me. For the past couple of days I have been toying with the idea of becoming a professor and the only two subjects that I can passionately teach is either NBB or Japanese.

If I choose to teach Japanese, either in the States or in Japan, would it seem... normal and not awkward for an African-American female to teach the course? All of the Japanese professors (with the exception of one Caucasian woman) that teach the language at the university I attend are well, Japanese.

Because Japanese is the official language for a single country, would there still be a demand to hire a non-Japanese professor willing to teach the language either in the U.S. or in Japan?