Post date: May 16, 2014 7:02:53 AM
I kept researching about the children who have birace or biculture with their ideas, which are because of their growing up environment such as Hafu (Half) and returnees (Kikokushijyo). For last class, I was researching about the general ideas and data about them. Then this time, I researched about the specific data, especially about the figure of Half. And I have found some issues about and around them, and the familiar parts and different parts with comparing between Half and returnees. For first, the similar idea of them is that both think they do not have identities. They are struggling with more cultures or race which are in and around themselves. Next, the different points of them are about that they both have dilemma about their identities, and the details of that dilemma is different or more opposite. Half especially who grown up in Japan think and feel they are Japanese and want to be treated like Japanese, equality as Japanese. But the “Demand” is different. Recently, there is a “hafu boom” in Japan. It is because that their looks have got popular. So this makes contradiction between the Half themselves and Japanese society. On the other hand, the case of Japanese returnees, these people think they are not Japanese even they were born in Japan, have grown up in Japanese family and have Japanese pass-port. The one of the reasons is that they spent lots of time in the local school, and then they absorbed the local culture even more than from their own family. So the case of returnees, they feel contradiction between the society with their nationalities or looks and their own cultural ideas which were learnt from the other country they have lived in. For last, so I think these two kinds of children have similar experiences and feeling, even they are in different situation or position and the detail meanings of dilemma are opposite. From next, I would like to research about their more detailed issues and experiences of each group for next two more weeks.
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