Discriminated as a non-Japanese Asian

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I received an interesting question/message through youtube's PM and I thought that I should make a video of it and answering the questions. Thanks for the PM, bakingsomebread.

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• Japan
• Korea
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• Japanese
• Korean
• discrimination
• racism

[bellesalvia]

I remember an incident in a Korean grocery store in NYC where the elderly owner started to speak in Japanese with my mother who is Japanese about their shared past and they began reciting one of those school statements they were forced to say in preWWII Japan. He seemed so happy to share memories of his youth at last with someone from his own generation. Of course he was a proud Korean and hated the occupation but I think being unable to express his youth without offending his family was hard.

[pskim731]

@bellesalvia It's an unhappy part of Korean history and shouldn't be forgotten.  But I believe that younger generation shouldn't be punished for the sins of our fathers. But I do wish that Japan acknowledges and teach the people and the young generation what really happened instead of hiding the truth. Japanese history books write about what happened to Japan from the atomic bomb droppings but almost nothing of the things they did to Korea and other Asian countries they invaded.

[kindersurprise8]

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[Universalman002]

Well thier is a historic link between China and Korea though Japan ocupied Korea during the first Sino-Japanese war so, their is quite of things that I agree with you, but thier are things that I don't well Japan's history has a date back to the Ainu people and to date back the history linik of Korea they have the same time linkage of the Chinese dynasty the only diffretence is the food and culture quite of similar and sort of but when Japan made the first Sino-Japanese war is when it happend.

[romanobritish]

Very true all countries hide the dark past or don't want to talk about it like what happened to my people in the U.S. Mescalero Apache's but I have many friends some had apologized to me. And I said you did not do this or your family that is the past. I kind of laugh but I do feel bad for some friends they keep on feeling guilty. I tell them we just go forward and live and learn and be happy.

[pskim731]

@Gimmeaflakeman Hey Victor. Thanks for watching. Also I didn't upload any videos recently or upped a video titled "vlog".

[Gimmeaflakeman]

@pskim731

I really need to find a history book and talk about this.

[pskim731]

@bellesalvia I think everyone is racist. I've faced racism back in the US and you are never used to it. My wife, a Japanese, didn't know about the Korean colonization by Japan until she was in university when one of her zainichi (Japanese-Korean) told her about what really happened. This is very common, unfortunately. I was told my a teacher here that in their history book at school there is just ONE page mentioning about Korea and that's it. It's really a shame.

[bellesalvia]

@bellesalvia Sorry for the long post but on the topic of racism, I had to go to Japanese school on Saturdays and the kids thought I was half-black because I was American and dark - my father is from Kyushu so he was darker. A relative of mine, also from Kyushu married an African American she met at a US college. When she divorced, her parents told her to give-up her mixed race child to the husband and come home, she didn't. Have to admit, my mother is racist without knowing it.

[bellesalvia]

@bellesalvia I once asked a college educated Japanese woman what was she taught about the events that led up to Pearl Harbor and she told me all that was in the 3rd semester but the year end high school final only required studies up to the 2nd so she didn't know. Is that true? As a bilingual Japanese American I recently saw the jdorama "Japanese Americans" starring Kusanagi Tsuyoshi and was appalled and saddened that mis-formation is still being spoon fed to the masses.

[bellesalvia]

@pskim731 I agree with you about the education ministry but then when I listen to how the government lies to the people about the Fukushima disaster I'm not surprised. In the end though, unless the average citizen takes the time to re-educate themselves and their children to think for themselves and stop being brainwashed by authority figures nothing will change. The hard truth is that admitting the truth doesn't earn forgiveness, its just cleaning out your own ancestral closet.