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Cross posted from South Asia section.

The new Miss Japan was born in Tokyo to an Indian father and Japanese mother.


In 2015, when Ariana Miyamoto, whose father is African-American, became the first hafu (multi-racial) woman to represent Japan at the Miss Universe pageant, some in her country, which is one of the least racially diverse, were not happy. She was forced to defend herself to reporters arguing that she was not Japanese enough to represent the country on an international stage, averring that she was “Japanese on the inside”. She had hoped to change attitudes in the country, where 98 per cent of the population counts itself completely Japanese.

She might have succeeded because another hafu has just been crowned Miss Japan, and will represent the country at the Miss World contest later this year. Her name is Priyanka Yoshikawa, and she was born in Tokyo to an Indian father and a Japanese mother, speaks fluent Japanese and has an elephant trainer’s licence for “colour” on her resume.

“Before Ariana, ‘hafu' girls couldn’t represent Japan”, Yoshikawa told AFP. “That’s what I thought too,” she added. “I didn’t challenge it until this day. Ariana encouraged me a lot by showing me and showing all mixed girls the way.”

The video above shows the moment she was crowned. This video from AFP presents snippets of her training.

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I am very honored to be chosen as Miss World Japan 2016 and would genuinely like to thank everyone who supported me.


Yoshikawa’s family is also a part of Indian history. Mahatma Gandhi once stayed at her politician-grandfather’s house for two weeks in Kolkata. After her victory, there was some grumbling on social media about people once again questioning if she was Japanese enough, but that does not compare to the racist incidents she has had to face in the past.

“When I came back to Japan, everyone thought I was a germ,” she recalled in an interview to AFP. “Like if they touched me they would be touching something bad. But I’m thankful because that made me really strong.”

Yoshikawa will compete in the Miss World pageant scheduled to take place in Washington in December.

Here's the trailer for Hafu: the mixed-race experience in Japan, which captures the stories of hafus in the country. Nearly 200,000 mixed race children are born in Japan each year.
A website called The Hafu Project also documents the experience of multi-racial Japanese people. In the video below, the two founders of the project ask passersby on a street questions about whether they have had interactions with hafus, and what image they have of them.

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Cross posted from South Asia section.

The new Miss Japan was born in Tokyo to an Indian father and Japanese mother.


In 2015, when Ariana Miyamoto, whose father is African-American, became the first hafu (multi-racial) woman to represent Japan at the Miss Universe pageant, some in her country, which is one of the least racially diverse, were not happy. She was forced to defend herself to reporters arguing that she was not Japanese enough to represent the country on an international stage, averring that she was “Japanese on the inside”. She had hoped to change attitudes in the country, where 98 per cent of the population counts itself completely Japanese.

She might have succeeded because another hafu has just been crowned Miss Japan, and will represent the country at the Miss World contest later this year. Her name is Priyanka Yoshikawa, and she was born in Tokyo to an Indian father and a Japanese mother, speaks fluent Japanese and has an elephant trainer’s licence for “colour” on her resume.

“Before Ariana, ‘hafu' girls couldn’t represent Japan”, Yoshikawa told AFP. “That’s what I thought too,” she added. “I didn’t challenge it until this day. Ariana encouraged me a lot by showing me and showing all mixed girls the way.”

The video above shows the moment she was crowned. This video from AFP presents snippets of her training.

View image on Twitter
CrpJHqCVYAQsbZd.jpg:small


Follow
PriyankaYoshikawa @Miss_priyanka20

I am very honored to be chosen as Miss World Japan 2016 and would genuinely like to thank everyone who supported me.


Yoshikawa’s family is also a part of Indian history. Mahatma Gandhi once stayed at her politician-grandfather’s house for two weeks in Kolkata. After her victory, there was some grumbling on social media about people once again questioning if she was Japanese enough, but that does not compare to the racist incidents she has had to face in the past.

“When I came back to Japan, everyone thought I was a germ,” she recalled in an interview to AFP. “Like if they touched me they would be touching something bad. But I’m thankful because that made me really strong.”

Yoshikawa will compete in the Miss World pageant scheduled to take place in Washington in December.

Here's the trailer for Hafu: the mixed-race experience in Japan, which captures the stories of hafus in the country. Nearly 200,000 mixed race children are born in Japan each year.
A website called The Hafu Project also documents the experience of multi-racial Japanese people. In the video below, the two founders of the project ask passersby on a street questions about whether they have had interactions with hafus, and what image they have of them.

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Not bothered about the article, but the youtube video was brilliant. Thanks for sharing that!
 
No surprise....

East Asian countries have very strong identity of their blood and their culture. They learn science and technology using their own languages. Last time, there was a soccer player with mixed blood in China, strongly opposed by netizens. I guess, it's very hard for East Asian countries to form a mixed-race Olympics team like US or UK.

Such children, if raised at any East Asian school, will be ruthlessly bullied....
I am sorry, but that's the truth....:cry:

It's easier for one from East Asia to integrate into another East Asia country.
Koreans have no problem integrating into Chinese in China.
Chinese can also be ministers in Japan....
A Korean in Japan, 孙正义, owns Japan's Soft Bank. (and his family name came from migrants from China 10+ centuries ago)



S. Korea, China, Japan agree to push for 'Culture Olympics'
I guess no one here can distinguish these photos, three 2017 East Asia cultural cities in Korea, China and Japan.
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No surprise....

East Asian countries have very strong identity of their blood and their culture. They learn science and technology using their own languages. Last time, there was a soccer player with mixed blood in China, strongly opposed by netizens. I guess, it's very hard for East Asian countries to form a mixed-race Olympics team like US or UK.

Such children, if raised at any East Asian school, will be ruthlessly bullied....
I am sorry, but that's the truth....:cry:

It's easier for one from East Asia to integrate into another East Asia country.
Koreans have no problem integrating into Chinese in China.
Chinese can also be ministers in Japan....
A Korean in Japan, 孙正义, owns Japan's Soft Bank. (and his family name came from migrants from China 10+ centuries ago)



S. Korea, China, Japan agree to push for 'Culture Olympics'
I guess no one here can distinguish these photos, three 2017 East Asia cultural cities in Korea, China and Japan.
View attachment 332009 View attachment 332007 View attachment 332005 View attachment 332006 View attachment 332008

I appreciate that you are being honest
 
No surprise....

East Asian countries have very strong identity of their blood and their culture. They learn science and technology using their own languages. Last time, there was a soccer player with mixed blood in China, strongly opposed by netizens. I guess, it's very hard for East Asian countries to form a mixed-race Olympics team like US or UK.

Such children, if raised at any East Asian school, will be ruthlessly bullied....
I am sorry, but that's the truth....:cry:

It's easier for one from East Asia to integrate into another East Asia country.
Koreans have no problem integrating into Chinese in China.
Chinese can also be ministers in Japan....
A Korean in Japan, 孙正义(Masayoshi Son), owns Japan's Soft Bank. (and his family name Son 孙 came from migrants from China 10+ centuries ago, as in 孙子兵法, the Art of War)

It is a weakness of East Asian countries. They will always find this as a hindrance to attracting top quality talent.

One of my batchmate, and friend, is going to Japan to work. But he doesn't intend to live there for more than 2-3 years. He is just going there because they are paying a decent amount of money, around 50,000 dollars.

Why does he not intend to stay?

Because there is no future in Japan. The society is very closed, you always remain an outsider etc. He intends to eventually go to the west.
 
China doesn't have any AI experts of quality approaching the 3 names I have given you above. @AndrewJin

And all three of them are Chinese, 2 of them Mainlanders, while the last one is a China --> Hongkong ----> US immigrant.

PS- Andrew Ng is a co-founder of Course-Era, and his machine learning course is a legendary one, famous even in India.
 
Its good. Things are coming out in open.AT least we are talking about these things. Slowly but surely these barriers will break.
 
Warning: Thread cleaned, now re-open, pay attention to racial sensitivity, no racial attack or abuse allowed, thanks!
 
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A lot of liberal minds don't understand what's the long-term benefit of homogeneity.
Why is it wrong that we don't want to repeat the chaos in the west?
The biggest advantage of China over USA is, China is an almost pure single race nation. China will win in the long run because of that.
 
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A lot of liberal minds don't understand what's the long-term benefit of homogeneity.
Why is it wrong that we don't want to repeat the chaos in the west?
@AndrewJin I'm no liberal, but I am the opinion that homogeneity is not necessarily a good thing. In a way it's kind of like inbreed. When a society is too homogeneous, its people's mind tend to be closed. If 1.3 billion people all think alike, then our creativity is limited, making it harder to do the extraordinary, to think outside the box. All advanced countries are open minded about letting in people of difference races. Japan seems to have just started it. We should do the same. Don't worry, Chinese will never be endangered species:-)
 
@AndrewJin I'm no liberal, but I am the opinion that homogeneity is not necessarily a good thing. In a way it's kind of like inbreed. When a society is too homogeneous, its people's mind tend to be closed. If 1.3 billion people all think alike, then our creativity is limited, making it harder to do the extraordinary, to think outside the box. All advanced countries are open minded about letting in people of difference races. Japan seems to have just started it. We should do the same. Don't worry, Chinese will never be endangered species:-)
You misinterpret the difference of cultural diversity with racial homogeneity. There is no scientific law that back up that creativity stem from racial diversity. In fact, it is quite the opposite. The pure form of creativity lie in racial homogeneity with cultural diversity. China is an example of that. US as well. Almost all the top experts in tech and scientific field are rather homogeneous racially. You don't see many half-mixed race that dominate in those fields, do you?
 
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