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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
Have you researched your Japanese background. do you know your family history?
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OH yeah that's something I'm trying to do now. I grew up thinking of myself as English and was rather put off by being Japanese as a kid cause like, when I went to school or met new friends or whatever I got something like, "Oh cool, a Japanese girl with a Brit accent, that's great!" or something to that extent. In dating it was worse cause I was always the "Hot 'Jap' bird" and it often seemed guys wanted to date me as some sort of trophy score so I'd get, "Oh Kyoko, you're so cool, how 'bout we go out?" and if I said no then I was "that 'Jap' bitch turned me down, bloody foreigners." So I just ignored...or was in denial...of my culture and heritage. In uni I started meeting a better and more international, or more enlightened crowd, one or the other but things started to take on a different tone. I think its just that kids can just be so cruel and fortunately, usually I hope, we outgrow that. So my whole "search for my Japanese self" is something I have only been working on for about a year now.