My children are half Japanese, half Caucasian. We raised them in a longstanding international neighborhood in Yokohama with many other children in bi-cultural families of many different nationalities. The community was a perfect environment for international families. The area where we live has had an international community for so long (since the 1860s) that few show surprise when a non-Japanese person speaks Japanese. Most around here assume that I speak Japanese before I even start speaking.
To be honest, it's weird to listen to this kind of voice ,because i rarely see any Japanese girl talks to people this way . her voice reminds of me of Japanese adult industry unfortunately. she made that type of sound on purpose i think .
She is adorable! Such radiant positivity! You can tell she loves her occupations. Good on her for leaning in to her high pitched voice and turning it into a career as a voice actress and teacher! Working with kids brings loads of fulfillment and joy!
I was born, raised and lived in Hawaii. I still spend part of the year there. And I can totally tell that Miki-san is half Japanese. I have many friends that are half white/half Japanese including relatives and past girlfriends. Miki would fit right in Hawaii if she wanted to try living in the U.S. Although, the local Japanese-Americans may still give her some grief, no different than Japan. Which is ironic because I know Japanese-Americans are NOT considered "Japanese" in Japan, but Americans.
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Dang her dad must have the strongest genes on Earth, she literally took everything from him lol She must have been trough some of the toughest and weirdest situations but she clearly made her peace with it 👍🏽 Where are you finding all these amazing and fascinating people, it's incredible lol
Those genes are strong lol. I actually met Miki this summer through a friend and the last person I interviewed was recommended by another person I interviewed.
My son is half, and did have trouble in elementary, it was do to his shooting. He is now an elite shooter on Team Japan in Singapore. It probably wouldn’t be such a bad idea to get his perspective because of his interaction on the National and International venues and such.
My granddaughter is half Japanese and she looks it, her Mother and our family are American, we are blonde hair like you, but my granddaughter has the dark hair, eyes just like Japanese she looks nothing like us, ppl thought she was adopted, and now her baby which is now I guess 1/4 she looks just like her Mother! Its amazing how genes work, if she went to Japan she would definitely blend in better than Miki. If I could send you a picture I would.
What does that mean? LMAO America is a melting pot. That has NOTHING to do with looks. It’s simply a nationality. Unless you mean NATIVE American. In this case, blonde hair makes it clear you don’t mean that. As a first generation American, it’s crazy strange to refer to being American as being white with blonde hair. Black people are American. White people are American, Asian people are American, Latino people are American. Made werid. How are you all not seeing this implied racial biased?
Hello from New York City! I went to Tokyo once on a film job and instantly fell in love with Japan (and our half-Japanese interpreter who gave me a VHS copy of Princess Mononoke to take back home with me ❤). I was only there for 72 hours but I still think about that trip almost every day. Thank you for your wonderful channel!
Think this title card should be “I look white, but I am ALSO Asian” She’s clearly both. That said American is a nationality and not linked to race in anyway. She;s Japanese and American. She’s half white and half Japanese.
If everyone took a DNA test (e.g. 23andMe) we would all realize that we are all a mix and many of us are a mix of a lot of things! The more isolated and remote your ancestors were, the more homogeneous the genetics.
Most haafu w/ Japanese dads look more Asian. Not always..."most". Miki seems like a sweet soul, on top of her advice I would say, do NOT get offended if a Japanese (or other person) asks your ethnicity. It's just curiosity, most of the time. Treat people w/ kindness and respect until/unless they show you they don't deserve it.
To me tho you are a lovely person you actually do look Asian. I would not say full Asian but you do look visually of Asian descent because you are and that is wonderful.
I’m half Thai half German , look all white. No one really believes I’m Asian until they meet my mom. every restaurant I work in, they think I’m that nationality…Cajun, Italian, American white, Latino…. Never been guessed as Asian. kinda funny.
A lot of people lived or made kids after ww2 in Japan who wasn't japanese. Saying "half" today could be 1/4 or 1/8 or even 1/12 japanese in reality. (Talking about the looks only.)
Am I the only one that thinks she looks Japanese? I've lived in Tokyo for over a year and her body language seems 100% Japanese, and that style of auburn-ish dyed hair isn't THAT rare. Also, kid's singer' being ' 歌のお姉さん/Utanōnēsan' I just learned now. For some reason I just thought it was kid's entertainer.
Her bone structure looks very Japanese. While in Korea I’ve seen Koreans with bright curly red hair and freckles. I’m sure American diet has a lot to do with how she developed as well.
I don't really see it that much other than maybe high cheek bones. Kinda surprising because East Asian genetics are pretty dominant and are usually more prominent when you're mixed raced. Not sure what you're talking about when it comes to her diet. She said she's never lived in America.
What cultural factors in Japan contribute to the prevalence of this "girlish" vocal style among women? Her voice is very similar to the typical voice used by Japanese women in commercials, public announcements, etc.
you have a lovely voice I bet the kids love you especially when you tell funny kids stories you can pitch it down or up I bet they three clap all day long🤣❤☝
an interesting perspective thank you. i wonder if she has children of her own. i guess not since she didn't bring it at all. neither did you. the half-thingy keeps popping, i wish you have children that grow to be happy and spread happiness around them i appreciate social issues you bring about in some of your other vids. i'm sure there's a lot to be done.
Sexual Imperialism: The Western world's desire for imperialistic domination over Asia relates to its desire for sexual domination over Asian. Why is the reverse not promoted nor considered equally valid? This is just the ODR but for Asian.
I like haafu who look less than Japanese than moi. 90+% of all Nihonjin think I'm Italian. I always got "uso", except a handful or times (less than 5) after Japanese asked my ethnicity and I replied "haafu". I started carrying a photo of my mom, dad and my older brother before I was born in my wallet to prove it and still some tried to say the photo came w/ the wallet. 😭🤣😹 Okay, that last part is a joke, but some still didn't buy it...."shinjirarenai" was often said. But Japanese tend to be terrible at spotting haafu even people who are OBVIOUS HAAFU!
She could be consider Latino and still be American (bc it’s not a race or ethnicity, unless Native American). It’s really gross that we keep referring to American as white with blond hair and blue eyes in this video. Let’s do better. It’s an unintended bias. But it’s there. Let’s just do better, please.
@@OrientalPearl never said it was. back in my days, we were taught to refer "white" people as Caucasians. now it seems the word "Caucasian" is long gone
Yeah, especially growing up in NY my entire life. It's so diverse that nobody "looks" American because every 5 mins you'll see at least a handful of different ethnicities.
@@Nikotastik That's what you think. There was a video on here talking about the nationalities of random groups of tourists, wandering around somewhere in Europe... It was no trouble, whatsoever, to tell the Americans.
@@FortisV No, you, seem to be making the fatal mistake of fantasising that I said or implied, any such thing - when I didn't. As a matter of fact, those are your words, not mine.
@@lewis7515 There's no point in me trying to have a conversation with someone who just wants to be right and say nothing at all in the process lol. The original comment was that Americans can look like anything and you clearly disagreed... I hope you can follow along next time and finally figure out the logical conclusion of what disagreeing means there
where the YOOOOO gone I like that plus can we have some more of the hubby he brings out your funny side he is cool I know he's busy but he's a good guy he Adour's you his mum and dad love you too
this is cultural Racism to me she was born and raised there it's not fair I don't want to use the H word but it suck's come on Japan BE better than the rest of this world PLEASE
I mean, genuinely asking, would this not be considered racism? Like she's obviously treated differently because she doest fit what they think someone from Japan is supposed to look like. I feel kinda bad for her. You know thats awful to put up with.
What I really love about all of the half and half interviewees is that they don't immediately go into the "Victimhood" mode or mentality. If you were to interview an interracial person here in the United States, chances are good that they would immediately go into the "Woe is me" mode and point out all the ways they thought that "The Man" was holding them down.
Caucasians are not white there west asian brown and related levantine, anatolian, turkic and iranic peoples. Caucasian countries include armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Northern iran.
This is ignoring how prevailing definitions of words change over time. Your definition is one of many. A German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach popularized Caucasian meaning to be white in the 18th century by saying it encompassed Europeans.
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My children are half Japanese, half Caucasian. We raised them in a longstanding international neighborhood in Yokohama with many other children in bi-cultural families of many different nationalities. The community was a perfect environment for international families.
The area where we live has had an international community for so long (since the 1860s) that few show surprise when a non-Japanese person speaks Japanese. Most around here assume that I speak Japanese before I even start speaking.
Yamate-cho?
There is no such thing is caucasian. It is pseudo-scientific term.
Her voice is higher when she's speaking japanese
To be honest, it's weird to listen to this kind of voice ,because i rarely see any Japanese girl talks to people this way .
her voice reminds of me of Japanese adult industry unfortunately. she made that type of sound on purpose i think .
It's kawaii...
@@simonyang-pe3ux its a pretty standard idol pitch.
If you play it at 1.5 speed, it still sounds the same! 😂
@@simonyang-pe3ux its for her job
I love Miki Clark! I used to watch her on "Japan Railway Journal" on NHK several years ago.
She is adorable! Such radiant positivity! You can tell she loves her occupations. Good on her for leaning in to her high pitched voice and turning it into a career as a voice actress and teacher! Working with kids brings loads of fulfillment and joy!
Lovely young lady, lots of smiles. Thank you for the video.
She's only 1/4 Japanese because her dad is 150% American.
You're good at math, hah hah.
She is so cute/pretty. She has a beautiful voice.
I was born, raised and lived in Hawaii. I still spend part of the year there. And I can totally tell that Miki-san is half Japanese. I have many friends that are half white/half Japanese including relatives and past girlfriends. Miki would fit right in Hawaii if she wanted to try living in the U.S. Although, the local Japanese-Americans may still give her some grief, no different than Japan. Which is ironic because I know Japanese-Americans are NOT considered "Japanese" in Japan, but Americans.
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Dang her dad must have the strongest genes on Earth, she literally took everything from him lol
She must have been trough some of the toughest and weirdest situations but she clearly made her peace with it 👍🏽
Where are you finding all these amazing and fascinating people, it's incredible lol
Those genes are strong lol. I actually met Miki this summer through a friend and the last person I interviewed was recommended by another person I interviewed.
My son is half, and did have trouble in elementary, it was do to his shooting. He is now an elite shooter on Team Japan in Singapore. It probably wouldn’t be such a bad idea to get his perspective because of his interaction on the National and International venues and such.
Shes basically being the anime asian woman
Only for work.
@@OrientalPearl Idk, she definitely turned it on for some people. Like the store vendor in the beginning.
She would fit in the VTuber industry perfectly. Hololive and VShojoJP immediately come to mind.
My granddaughter is half Japanese and she looks it, her Mother and our family are American, we are blonde hair like you, but my granddaughter has the dark hair, eyes just like Japanese she looks nothing like us, ppl thought she was adopted, and now her baby which is now I guess 1/4 she looks just like her Mother! Its amazing how genes work, if she went to Japan she would definitely blend in better than Miki. If I could send you a picture I would.
What does that mean? LMAO America is a melting pot. That has NOTHING to do with looks. It’s simply a nationality. Unless you mean NATIVE American. In this case, blonde hair makes it clear you don’t mean that. As a first generation American, it’s crazy strange to refer to being American as being white with blonde hair. Black people are American. White people are American, Asian people are American, Latino people are American. Made werid. How are you all not seeing this implied racial biased?
Great video! Many thanks :)
Glad you liked it!
I get this a lot here in Thailand. Know exactly how she feels. She's cool!
omg her sounds... melted my hearts :D
anyway nice videos
Glad you enjoyed! Miki is a very kind person.
Her voice is absolutely adorable!
I enjoy your content, and I enjoyed listening to Miki. Also, I’m still enjoying Pimsleur 😊
Glad you enjoy it! I really love their program. I started using it in 2015.
0:54 Ritsu Doan couldn't believe she was from Kanagawa, so he left the shop.
Its weird that people say half "American". Americans can look like anything!
hmmm how else would she say? the only way is half american / half japanese...
Not Javanese which is a place but I meant Japanese
Like I my father is half Canadan and American and he's born and raised in the US and I'm just American
@@tomasp886 This is because Asians think that Americans are white and look different from Asians.
@@Legnica148Anglo?
Hello from New York City!
I went to Tokyo once on a film job and instantly fell in love with Japan (and our half-Japanese interpreter who gave me a VHS copy of Princess Mononoke to take back home with me ❤). I was only there for 72 hours but I still think about that trip almost every day. Thank you for your wonderful channel!
Another great video Alyssa!
Not only american are watching, I am from Spain. 😂
Love these videos.
Glad you enjoyed it! I want to interview more people.
She's so precious
She has a brilliant energy, and radiates sweetness.
Think this title card should be “I look white, but I am ALSO Asian” She’s clearly both. That said American is a nationality and not linked to race in anyway. She;s Japanese and American. She’s half white and half Japanese.
If everyone took a DNA test (e.g. 23andMe) we would all realize that we are all a mix and many of us are a mix of a lot of things! The more isolated and remote your ancestors were, the more homogeneous the genetics.
What a nice interview. Miki is an adorable, cute girl.
Most haafu w/ Japanese dads look more Asian. Not always..."most". Miki seems like a sweet soul, on top of her advice I would say, do NOT get offended if a Japanese (or other person) asks your ethnicity. It's just curiosity, most of the time. Treat people w/ kindness and respect until/unless they show you they don't deserve it.
Some could also say she sounds like Bernadette from The Big Bang Theory?
She had a very similar kind of voice adult childlike singing nursery rhymes
Miss Miki is happy to herself and her life as a mixed in Japan.
Thanks for watching Jerome. I’m glad you like my friends.
"half people" 👎double people! 👍
lol, that’s the first time I’ve heard that. Love it
@@OrientalPearl 🙏❤💪
What a lovely lady😊
To me tho you are a lovely person you actually do look Asian. I would not say full Asian but you do look visually of Asian descent because you are and that is wonderful.
2:23 Is that her Mum with her Dad? 😮 She's beautiful! 😍
I think it’s her dad and possibly her step sister.
What an adorable girl!
AWWWW, what a cutie pie!!!
日本人だけど字幕無しで見てるよ俺。英語は第二言語だけど100%分かる。でも喋るときはパールさんの日本語と同じくらい。
I’m half Thai half German , look all white. No one really believes I’m Asian until they meet my mom. every restaurant I work in, they think I’m that nationality…Cajun, Italian, American white, Latino…. Never been guessed as Asian. kinda funny.
A lot of people lived or made kids after ww2 in Japan who wasn't japanese. Saying "half" today could be 1/4 or 1/8 or even 1/12 japanese in reality. (Talking about the looks only.)
I once had a girlfriend who’s father was American and mother was Chinese, she loved to speak Chinese more than English
Am I the only one that thinks she looks Japanese? I've lived in Tokyo for over a year and her body language seems 100% Japanese, and that style of auburn-ish dyed hair isn't THAT rare.
Also, kid's singer' being ' 歌のお姉さん/Utanōnēsan' I just learned now. For some reason I just thought it was kid's entertainer.
I think she does.
I translated it as kids singer. There is no direct English translation.
Why does she squeak like a doll when speaking Japanese? Very odd
Exactly what does an American look like?
She looks like Mia Farrow!
She sounds like lily the twitch streamer from OTV
Her bone structure looks very Japanese. While in Korea I’ve seen Koreans with bright curly red hair and freckles. I’m sure American diet has a lot to do with how she developed as well.
I don't really see it that much other than maybe high cheek bones. Kinda surprising because East Asian genetics are pretty dominant and are usually more prominent when you're mixed raced.
Not sure what you're talking about when it comes to her diet. She said she's never lived in America.
"There's Americans watching" me, a Mexican from México, who just happens to be bilingual and has followed your channel for a long time xD
What cultural factors in Japan contribute to the prevalence of this "girlish" vocal style among women? Her voice is very similar to the typical voice used by Japanese women in commercials, public announcements, etc.
Mom's genes didn't even try lmao
Hello from Oklahoma!
Sending love from Japan to Oklahoma!
A very common mix with American and Asian, I see more American mixed with Chinese in the US
But I'm senatorian, singapor.
you have a lovely voice I bet the kids love you especially when you tell funny kids stories you can pitch it down or up I bet they three clap all day long🤣❤☝
This lady’s personality is more japanese than a lot of japanese people ever appeared on the channel :)
For sure. A lot of them spent more time abroad than she did.
an interesting perspective thank you.
i wonder if she has children of her own. i guess not since she didn't bring it at all. neither did you.
the half-thingy keeps popping, i wish you have children that grow to be happy and spread happiness around them
i appreciate social issues you bring about in some of your other vids.
i'm sure there's a lot to be done.
Adorable. Wow
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she's not half enough 🤣 brilliant
Half oriental girls are quite pretty 😍
Oriental? How old are you? Just no. That’s low key racist.
@@phoebesmith9089Nothing racist about saying oriental..unless you are young brainwashed under 35 🤨😂
Miki looks mixed Asian to ME
Old wine in a new bottle.... Getting bouring 😮
Imo. If i was talking with her
She always sounds like. Cartoon anime
Something i have to get USED to
there something about hearing Japanese. plus she cute lol.
Sexual Imperialism: The Western world's desire for imperialistic domination over Asia relates to its desire for sexual domination over Asian.
Why is the reverse not promoted nor considered equally valid?
This is just the ODR but for Asian.
next time interview these brothers please: SAWAYAN CHANNEL / サワヤン チャンネル
How about interviewing parents who have young mixed children? Their views are more current.
I would love to, but I can’t get anyone to agree to it. I’ve tried.
俺もハーフなんだけど、ハーフはみんな母に似てると思ってた。😮
I like haafu who look less than Japanese than moi. 90+% of all Nihonjin think I'm Italian. I always got "uso", except a handful or times (less than 5) after Japanese asked my ethnicity and I replied "haafu". I started carrying a photo of my mom, dad and my older brother before I was born in my wallet to prove it and still some tried to say the photo came w/ the wallet. 😭🤣😹 Okay, that last part is a joke, but some still didn't buy it...."shinjirarenai" was often said. But Japanese tend to be terrible at spotting haafu even people who are OBVIOUS HAAFU!
Has Japanese voice and hair.
Those are the obvious signs to notice that are hard for people to notice because they see her face.
Yes she is cute⚛❤
She could be a voice actor. She sounded like Lisa Simpson.
She is a voice actress for some major characters.
So nothing to fear, a green light for you and Tommy to have kids! :D
Ha ha, of course. There’s many mixed kids in Japan nowadays.
Her referring to American as an ethnicity/race is KILLING me. Let’s not promote American as white.
She could be consider Latino and still be American (bc it’s not a race or ethnicity, unless Native American). It’s really gross that we keep referring to American as white with blond hair and blue eyes in this video. Let’s do better. It’s an unintended bias. But it’s there. Let’s just do better, please.
@amandakay8 it could also be that she doesn't know where her father's side comes from 🤷♂️
Great video. She is so kawaii 😊💙
Thank you 🤗
"I look Caucasian, But im Asian"
heres a better alternative title.
White isn’t a bad word.
@@OrientalPearl never said it was. back in my days, we were taught to refer "white" people as Caucasians. now it seems the word "Caucasian" is long gone
As an American, it is odd to hear that someone “looks American” because we all look different and have different heritages.
Yeah, especially growing up in NY my entire life. It's so diverse that nobody "looks" American because every 5 mins you'll see at least a handful of different ethnicities.
@@Nikotastik That's what you think. There was a video on here talking about the nationalities of random groups of tourists, wandering around somewhere in Europe...
It was no trouble, whatsoever, to tell the Americans.
@@lewis7515You're making a fatal mistake of assuming random groups of American tourists represent every single American
@@FortisV No, you, seem to be making the fatal mistake of fantasising that I said or implied, any such thing - when I didn't.
As a matter of fact, those are your words, not mine.
@@lewis7515 There's no point in me trying to have a conversation with someone who just wants to be right and say nothing at all in the process lol. The original comment was that Americans can look like anything and you clearly disagreed... I hope you can follow along next time and finally figure out the logical conclusion of what disagreeing means there
You should be preaching diversity in your own country - Israel
Genetics are crazy
🥰🥰🥰
She's so kawaii! I'm glad she's happy and well-adjusted with her life. 😊 And she has a cool job!
dark hair she still look foreign
Parece a voz de um desenho animado.😁
more halfu !!
More interviews like this coming.
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8:44
>that anime voice at the start
jesus christ muted immediately
It was only a few seconds. Don’t worry, the rest of the interview is a normal conversation.
太搞笑了，啥时候能来一期American-Chinese的。LMAO
I seen alot of white people who look asian before
🎉 💗
Anime voice
She’s talented at it.
where the YOOOOO gone I like that plus can we have some more of the hubby he brings out your funny side he is cool I know he's busy but he's a good guy he Adour's you his mum and dad love you too
I would love to have Tommy in more videos, but he works all week.
this is cultural Racism to me she was born and raised there it's not fair I don't want to use the H word but it suck's come on Japan BE better than the rest of this world PLEASE
American is a Nationality.
I believe you're referring to Caucasian.
I mean, genuinely asking, would this not be considered racism? Like she's obviously treated differently because she doest fit what they think someone from Japan is supposed to look like. I feel kinda bad for her. You know thats awful to put up with.
no just ignorance
What I really love about all of the half and half interviewees is that they don't immediately go into the "Victimhood" mode or mentality.
If you were to interview an interracial person here in the United States, chances are good that they would immediately go into the "Woe is me" mode and point out all the ways they thought that "The Man" was holding them down.
I try to let the person I’m interviewing tell their own story as honestly as they can.n
Caucasians are not white there west asian brown and related levantine, anatolian, turkic and iranic peoples.
Caucasian countries include armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Northern iran.
This is ignoring how prevailing definitions of words change over time. Your definition is one of many.
A German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach popularized Caucasian meaning to be white in the 18th century by saying it encompassed Europeans.
Lol.
"Would you consider trying to live in America?.."
"Basically: nope!"
She's _smart_ .....
Using a Pokemon voice in real life is a little embarassing
Oh here comes a judgmental internet n0body to d4mp on random people.
It’s her acting voice for work.
@ people just love to be toxic on social media..
Putting people down on social media for no reason other than to be a bully is very embarrassing.