Twitter is helping me J out
One of the best things that's come out of Twitter for me is the @yahooj_topics, the Yahoo! Japan news feed. It's been the best way for me to keep up with J news and have it regular in my life without having to devote, like, time to it, or having to remember to check.
And I get to have little moments of J pride, like when this 13-year-old kid from Yokohama becomes the world's youngest certified meteorologist. Or think about how ridiculous Japan is when a high schooler getting caught with weed is like a national news story. Or consider whether or not having boys shave their heads as a dress code at a private school is a violation of human rights.
If you know me you know I have a huge complex about my levels of Japanese-ness (doesn't help being pigmentarily white and with a super Anglo name). I feel like keeping my J-ness is something I have to work hard to do, but on the other hand I don't think it's fair that I should have to work hard to do it when other people with my same blood background just kind of are J by default (though of course I can't speak for them and I don't know what they go through and how they feel about it). I feel like I should be me first, and do me first, and my national/cultural identity should come after that.
I don't know. I'm uncomfortable!
And I get to have little moments of J pride, like when this 13-year-old kid from Yokohama becomes the world's youngest certified meteorologist. Or think about how ridiculous Japan is when a high schooler getting caught with weed is like a national news story. Or consider whether or not having boys shave their heads as a dress code at a private school is a violation of human rights.
If you know me you know I have a huge complex about my levels of Japanese-ness (doesn't help being pigmentarily white and with a super Anglo name). I feel like keeping my J-ness is something I have to work hard to do, but on the other hand I don't think it's fair that I should have to work hard to do it when other people with my same blood background just kind of are J by default (though of course I can't speak for them and I don't know what they go through and how they feel about it). I feel like I should be me first, and do me first, and my national/cultural identity should come after that.
I don't know. I'm uncomfortable!