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When naming your kid...

Paul, David, Dennis, Steven, Kevin, Bill, Richard. These are nice All-American names. Indeed, these are the names of my classmates as I was growing up in LA in the 1960s at a Japanese missionary school where all the stud…
Memorial's Day

I have lived in the Washington DC area since 1996. I try to go to the Mall as often as possible, but like many of us who who live in areas where there are large attractions, we sometimes don't go to the trouble to see th…
Empty Praise: Identifying by Race

Recently, Sleetse wrote that he was tired of being a "glob." I was surprised and flattered that he remembered the word I "coined" in nlute, a short narrative of selected periods of my life. I too was a glob--good little …
Maintaining culture

There are a number of "Japanese" traits that many JAs continue to manifest. Many are straight-forward practices and can be categorized as mundane, such as taking off one's shoes before entering a house, or automatically …
Recognizing Ourselves

Some have told me their scores on the alllooksame.com quiz. Although he didn't tell me directly, Masa says he scored 14 (out of 18) for a 77.7% accuracy rate. While this figure may sound low for a Japanese quiz, it was t…
Back to being JA/AA:

Stupid me. Once upon a time I thought I was smart enough to tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Koreans (CJK). I thought each group had a particular look. Then I realized that Japanese actually had a divers…
Being Japanese American (cont'd) その二:

The conflict inherent in being Japanese, Japanese American or "just" American is a complex issue that leads me back to Capt. Gaijin and why I DO disagree with him. He told me that his significant other--who is JA--was ve…
Being Japanese American, cont'd

Anyway, I thought I'd continue what I started yesterday. Those uninterested in a JA side trip can stop reading now... Being Japanese American cont'd: The conflict inherent in being Japanese, Japanese American or "just" …
Being Japanese American, Feedback

But Capt. Gaijin told me that his significant other was very upset by his post, and he asked if I was offended, as well. We had the following (edited) converation:OM: No, of course not. But I understand why some people …
Being Japanese American その一:

Capt. Gaijin says that some make too much of identifying with an ethnic group. He believes that identifying with a group—let’s say the Japanese—is arbitrary since the Japanese themselves are actually from Korea, and ev…

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