Post date: May 16, 2014 6:09:44 AM
I researched about the history of immigrants in Okinawa last week, and I understood that there are people who have various nationalities there. Nowadays, Okinawa has many problems related with immigrants. I should focus on one problem and research about it, but I couldn’t decide what topic I should focus on. Therefore, I change my topic little. I make my topic more narrow one.
From this research, I research about Amerasian in Okinawa. Amerasian stands for American and Asian. This word means that children who were born between American and Asian. In Okinawa, there is U.S. military base and many American live there. So it is not rare that they have Asian wife or child who called Amerasian. After the end of World War two, Okinawa had been occupied by U.S. until the reversion of Okinawa to Japan. During the period, American military had lived with Okinawans and so many American married with Okinawa’s women. Some of their wives were working to deal with American, so Okinawans had a prejudice against women who married with American and their children. Their children are sometimes discriminated because of their look like or language barrier. Finally, they give up going to school. For these children and their parents, some Amerasian’s mother established Amerasian School. Next time, I will research about “Amerasian School in Okinawa.”
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