Loading ...It’s true they do not see Koreans as the same as them. They have a strong bond with their ancestry. On the positive side they will not tolerate invasions or PC to accommodate others. My Japanese friend of Japanese ancestry who we have lunch together every month also mentioned how foreigners would come expecting them to speak their language instead of learning theirs. Japanese women especially our generation were more oppressed in that they were raised different basically sheltered from the head of household side of things. She wondered how I learned so much about different things for instance but we may see it as normal.
These wives less things changed maybe didn’t mention especially with Japanese ancestry how they look down on women marrying foreigners. In our time when she was young they still had arranged marriages. Her family would pick the best person out of different family’s with pictures and a story about them like what they do for a living and the family they came from. The best suitors that would guarantee survival.
When she decided to marry a American all hell broke loose in her family and her family was alienated for years.
It gets more complicated than that?
One thing she told me that made me kinda mad but I guess had a positive affect on her later. Someone on her sons wife side also Japanese acted like she was to good for my friend. She would never talk to her. She was Japanese but born here not raised in Japanese customs. She said some Japanese Americans look at Japanese women who marry foreigners which is ironic if their Americans calling Americans foreigners as prostitutes. Apparently a long time ago when things were hard they’d come here for that but had nothing to do with her.
I told her a few things including she is more Japanese than her and educated. Now this woman talks to her. I figure no loss for my friend if she didn’t.
Alex , Maya
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