I'm Japanese Peruvian Nikkei, and I am first of all, Catholic. So whatever they throw at me it's not gonna stick much because I have a strong foundation on my faith.
Like you, I was born and raised in Brazil where I lived 20 years of my life thinking I was japanese because I didn't fit 100% to Brazilian culture. Now I'm already 22 years straight living in Japan and discovered that I didn't fit 100% to the japanese culture too. Both cultures has strong and weak points, I just learn to get the strong points of each culture, and I feel privileged that I had that chance to see and experienced the both sides in life. P.S. Estudei meu primário em um colégio chamado Imperatriz Leopoldina, em São Paulo, que ensinava alemão também. 日本の生活で頑張ってください!
De certa maneira, é o meu caso também. Até os cinco só falei alemão e cresci numa comunidade de ucranianos de língua alemã que tinham deixado a ucrânia em virtude da revolução de 1917. Só que eu nunca morei fora Brasil. Foram as inúmeras visitas de gringos alemães que me provaram definitivamente que eu não sou um alemão. O jeitinho brasileiro é nosso forte e igualmente a nossa fraqueza.
Uma criança nasce sem pecado. No matter your genetics you don't hold responsibility for your ancestors sins. You should only be responsible for your own. The good side is that on the other hand your ancestry allows you to have a deep identity. Yours, use it as a banner, it is beautiful.
Parabéns por sair da “bolha” das empreiteiras e crescer como ser humano, focando na aprendizagem da língua japonesa. Vc é muito corajosa e batalhadora e tenho certeza que terá um futuro maravilhoso em todos os sentidos. Um video seu apareceu na minha página e resolvi assistir, e logo em seguida te reconheci. Você está diferente, por isso não tinha reconhecido de imediato. Eu cruzava com você na ida ao shokudo. Estou na Murata ainda, e daqui um tempo volto ao Brasil. Estou me esforçando para melhorar o inglês, e invejo sua fluência ! Tudo de bom para você !
Eita! Que coincidência me encontrar no RUclips! Nao consigo te reconhecer por causa da foto, muito pequena! Mas muito obrigada pelo comentário e boa sorte para você também! Tudo de bom! 😊
I'm a White American mainly of German ancestry, I studied Japanese and German in school, traveled to Japan and Germany, and my uncle is Brazilian. My cousins are half Filipino/a. My aunt is Puerto Rican. I have a half Brazilian cousin on my other side too. I am fortunate to have a diverse family. Also interesting you note your time in Germany, because Brazil has Germans too. Germans would be surprised to know Brazil is home to the 2nd largest German population outside of Germany after the US. Argentina is 3rd. Also the US has the 2nd largest Japanese population outside of Japan after Brazil, but they live mostly on the West Coast, California, Hawaii, and Washington State. That ignorant Middle Eastern guy telling you about what Japan did, well you are Brazilian and Brazil was on the allied side, your ancestors are Japanese. I'm American and my ancestors are from Germany mainly, I got all the WW2 comments too, jokes and such, in bad taste, others in jest, but seriously its a new Germany and i'm American I would say. People always would say well you know Germany did this in WW2...my reply was always well thats interesting information and all but my family immigrated to the US in the 1800s and 1900s and its the 21st century. Then I asked them, whats your background exactly? The only original Americans are Native Americans, so unless your indigenous your not originally from here either because everyone else is a descendent of a Colonizer, Slave, Indentured Servant, or Immigrant that came here voluntarily or was brought against their will, so.....yeah. Also you aren't unusual being Asian in ancestry but more Western in mindset, the Philippines as a result of being colonized by the Spanish has many Western cultural ties, they have Spanish last names, are Roman Catholic, learn English, study, work in the west and emigrate to the West often. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia have heavy British influence. The government elite and upper class model themselves on British culture in many ways especially in Hong Kong and Singapore.
I understand where you coming from. My parents are from Indonesia but I was born in Brazil. I have Brazilian-Canadian citizenship. I also consider myself Brazilian. People say the same thing to me, they are like, no, you’re Indonesian because of parents. I am like, no. There were times where I did struggle but after awhile, I realized that I am proud to be Brazilian. I am not going let people tell me otherwise
Wow I’ve never met a person from Indonesia in Brazil. That’s so interesting! And what a coincidence! Today I saw a video about indonesia and was thinking of going soon! 😊
@@marianalikatv there are a number of us there in São Paulo, probably not as much as Japanese. My parents had moved to Brazil because my grandfather (his Dad) and my uncle and his family were there. My grandfather wanted to start a business and he thought Brazil was a better option, because he found America too competitive. I still have relatives there who live in Osasco and there are some that I keep in touch with on Facebook. I always embraced my Brazilian side but it’s been more recent that I started to get more curious about my Indonesian heritage. The thing is too, I never had an issue with my identity until I moved to North America.
Such an interesting topic! ✨ You almost made me cry at the end (not surprising lol) because as I already told you, I have quite same background as you, same judgements from others, same desire to get closer to my asian roots and to pay tribute to my family who fought for a better life. You are beautiful person Mariana, you can be proud of you ❤️😌 I wish you can achieve your goals! See you soon
Hello Mari!! I think differences always will bring this kind of judgements at some point in our lives .It is just a mirror for us to know who we really are and reassure our essence .Regardless what we find out it is beautiful the way it is just because it is unique like you . You show me not just a wonderful person that you are but also the incredible esoteric and spiritual world that made me find out some clues of my soul path. Thank you for be in my life and share with others your experiences . Congrats for your chanel !!!
Thank you for your sweet message!! I love you!!! You are an amazing soul too and I hope you find your true path either here in Japan or in Brazil or anywhere you want in the world!! 🥺❤️💞💖
Hi Mari, nice video! It’s quite an interesting thing how do we share so much in common just because of our identical background, different lifes but so many same things! I really wish you all the best and I hope you achieve your goals anytime soon! Glad to have met you Mari, and I just have to say that, knowing you better just made me feel proud of you! You have just to be yourself, you’re doing great! Hugs from Brazil! Stay safe!
Something relevant about not being able to speak Japanese in Brazil is that Japanese was lost probably due to prohibitons on foreign languages being spoken and taught during the Getúlio Vargas regimes, especially during WWII when Japan, Germany and Italy were considered enemies and people descending from any of these nationalities were considered enemies and potential traitors. We were robbed of our families' languages by the Brazilian government and this is downplayed to this day. The whole talk about Brazilian identity from 1930s propaganda was meant to destroy local identities. To this day the perception of Brazil to foreigners is basically just the culture of Rio de Janeiro.
Japanese families, with Japan being a nation of a single ethnicity (or a very closely related set thereof), are very proud of their origins and will attempt to preserve their culture (and even ethnicity). That such families lost their language in Brazil was likely by the government's design.
Hello Sasaki san, happy to hear such a warm journey story! I feel so warm about how you are proud of your identity and family while living in a familiar but actually new environment. By the way, I find it interesting that people in non-immigration country like most of the countries in Asia, people are having such a strong connection to their culture and land. It doesn't mean they are necessarily patriotic, they just have that connections to many little things like the food or style of living you mentioned. So I feel like the first generation immigrants were really tough as they absolutely remained those culture connections deep in heart while living abroad. That's why I can understand that Chinese guy insisted on the language stuff (Although his way of expressing could be improved definitely 😂)
Thank you for the comment! 😊 Yeah, now I understand what that chinese guy wanted to say. That’s how probably my grandparents must have felt ! Thanks to that comment I can now speak Japanese lol so I’m grateful! Chinese people btw are very nice and sweet in general! When I travel abroad, the most kind and friendly people are the chinese 😊
I identify with your experience, also being Japanese-Brazilian, and having already done all this 37 years ago. I was raised on a town where my family were the ONLY Asians, so kids used to pick on me from the very beginning at school and social activities. Like you, they called me "Japanese", but I had no clue what that meant - my parents never taught me Japanese, and I was never exposed to the Japanese culture. The worst was not being identified by another nationality, but instead, not understanding what that meant. Hence the identity crisis. Like you, I went to live in Japan - but not because I wanted to, but because my family decided to move back to Japan when I was 17. It was total culture shock, one after the other, and in the beginning, I could only work in low pay jobs because I couldn't speak the language. Even though that was in Tokyo, foreigners were RARE in Japan in the 1980s, to a point where if I stopped someone to ask for directions in English, they would panic and run away - literally. I was working morning and afternoons in Tokyo to be able to study Japanese at night, trying to stay awake the best I could. After 1 year I could finally get an office job, and in only 2 years, they wanted to promote me to seishain, which is usually only allowed to the Japanese, so it was a great honor. However, I decided to go back to Brazil to finish university. That would take too long in Japan, not to mention it would be super expensive. While I was living, working, and studying in Japan, I had become Japanese. They accepted me as part of the group, and that took a lot of time and effort. Perhaps too much time, and too much effort, because I was constantly making an effort to behave like people expected me to. The peer pressure was very high. That's why I left - I was not feeling I was home. Not that I feel home in Brazil - I don't, so I will forever be an outcast. What I brought back from Japan was my lost identity, so I have finally become a whole person. Since then I have lived in many other countries, cultures, and languages in over 5 continents. I am still trying to settle, but never found a place I could call home.
I guarantee you Japan has changed quite a bit from the 1980s. Perhaps you may want to try Japan once more. We have more inbound tourists than outbound these days. If I recall, there were nearly 30 million visitors before the pandemic. I suspect Tokyo is quite different from when you lived in Japan. Osaka or Okinawa...things have changed quite a bit. There are much more foreigners in the city, so much so you don't even notice. You'll realize it just by walking in Tokyo. Nowadays, trains have signs in English, Korean, and Chinese. I like Japan because the quality of goods, services, and healthcare are reasonable for the price...compared to some other countries where it's just way too expensive. I'm not Nikkei-Brazilian but I understand some of your challenges, because I was also raised abroad and returned as a teenager. Although we spoke Japanese at home and I attended Japanese Saturday school, the transition into school in Japan was very demanding. Cultural adjustment was tough enough, but the academic side was near impossible at the beginning. When the language of instruction changes, you feel really dumb and helpless. I thought Japanese education system was insane. I vividly remember in junior-high, when my Japanese skills and Kanji was still lagging compared to native students, I was studying KOBUN (古文) and KANBUN (漢文) for the high-school entrance exam. KOBUN are famous pieces such as GENJI MONOGATARI (源氏物語) or TSURE-TSURE-GUSA(徒然草), which are mostly literature from the HEIAN and KAMUKURA periods. KANBUN are famous Chinese poems, mostly from Tang dynasty era. In junior-high it's usually poems from 杜甫 or 李白. As ironic as this may sound, if you weren't Japanese by blood, your experience may have been vastly different. People would have been praising how good your Japanese is. In other words, the expectations placed on you was the same as other Japanese people. You were perceived and accepted as a Japanese person, and not a foreigner. As you're aware, nobody will be complimenting a Japanese person for being able to speak proper Japanese or knowing KEIGO or Kanji. We actually think it's almost mandatory for a Japanese person to know Japanese...because that's how we communicate and identify each other.
@@yo2trader539 I bet things have changed since then - it has been decades now. Perhaps the major problem when I lived in Japan was that the government believed Japanese writing should only be taught much later to foreigners. None of the available courses would teach reading or writing - only speaking. That was a thing of that period, and it has backfired on me as soon as I got an office job. It takes a lifetime for the Japanese to learn kanji, so delaying that for foreigners was a grave mistake. To put things in perspective, even if had started learning kanji as soon as I arrived, I was already a decade behind a normal Japanese kid. You are totally correct when it comes to going to Japan as a nikkei - they have full expectations of you as a full Japanese, which led me into all sorts of inexcusable culture shocks. They find it "cute" if it were a foreigner, but unacceptable if you are a nikkei. That's what I meant when I've mentioned the "peer pressure". There was also the staggering difference in treatment to Americans, at least it was so in the 80s. They were treated like CELEBRITIES, unbelievable stuff. I have met other nikkei, but the ones from the US were put in a pedestal - probably for historical reasons (the US won the war). That was not unique to Japan, though. I have seen that in other countries I have lived on. These people believed the US was like what they saw on TV. LOL
@@Ken1171DesignsThe reason why I recommended Japan was I know the powerful intoxicating feeling of re-connecting with your ancestral roots. Visiting your ancestor's original region (or even OHAKA) is a special experience each time. But I really do understand what you mean. If I had money or influence, I'd be building lots of bilingual and trilingual schools--from full cultural immersion day-care centers to high-school to universities--in areas with large concentration of Japanese Descendants and Expats. Having to learn a language/culture as an adult is almost like torture, especially when you didn't grow up with it. I've met and worked with Nikkei-Canadians, Colombians, Brazilians, Peruvians, and Americans. Since I've personally experienced language and cultural barriers, I'm unhappy with the predicament of the Nikkei-Brazilians both in Brazil and in Japan. Since many are now 3rd generation and beyond, some of them are arriving in Japan without even basic language fluency. And the ones who have valuable technical skills--such as in engineering, architecture, medicine, science, IT, education--are often unable to take advantage of their degree and professional background because of the language barrier of both Japanese and English. It's a tremendous opportunity loss for them and for Japan. And this is a major difference between Nikkei-Americans/Canadians and Nikkei-Peruvians/Brazilians who are coming to Japan. Most of the Nikkei-Americans/Canadians are English-speaking College-educated, and have studied Japanese in college. Many of them are able to find good jobs in Tokyo because of their English-skills and college degrees. Frankly, the people who have command of business-level Japanese, English, and Portuguese in their technical/professional fields have very successful careers around the world including Japan. They would be more valuable than native-Japanese kids or the Nikkei-Canadian/Americans. However, because of the language barriers, so many Nikkei-Brazilians are forced to take up jobs in factories with basic pay. Their experience in Japan is beyond challenging because they are unable to understand the language/culture around them. Some of them cannot survive outside of the Nikkei-Brazilian communities in Japan. What kind of experience would it be if you're living in Japan, but cannot understand or appreciate the history and culture, or make Japanese friends because of communication issues. The Japanese government offers preferential visa schemes for Japanese Descendants, but I think we need to do more to teach, train, and educate the Nikkei-Brazilians while they're in Brazil. I don't like the idea that they have to relocate to Japan and work in factories, so they can save enough for college in Brazil. There should be Japanese language programs, technical training, and scholarships available for the Japanese Descendants. As for myself, I had to suck it up, because I had no excuse. I don't think I've ever studied or struggled as I did after that period. It took me minimum 3 years just to catch up. I think I read almost every possible book that I can get a hold of during that time, just to learn about Japanese history, language, expressions, culture, idioms, KANJI, or how Japanese society was/is structured. (I didn't know any famous Japanese celebrities, singers, comedians, or TV shows, so that was an entirely different adjustment. We were so away from Japan for so long, my entire family was like URASHIMA-TARO when we returned.) That said, with more and more non-Japanese Asian-looking people living in and visiting Japan, I suspect the expectation and "peer pressure" may have eased a bit since the last time you lived in Japan. These days we have 3 million foreign-nationals living in Japan, mostly concentrated in Tokyo, Osaka, and Aichi/Gifu/Shizuoka. One million of them are Chinese-nationals, half a million are South Korean nationals, and 300,000 Vietnamese and Philippines, respectively. There are nearly 200,000 Brazilian-nationals, who are mostly Japanese Descendants (and their spouses). And of the 30 million inbound tourists, many of them are from South Korea, China, Taiwan, HK, Singapore, Thailand, etc.
@@yo2trader539 I have no doubt there should be more foreigners in Japan nowadays than there were in the 80s. And that's not difficult considering there were nearly none back then. However, one thing I doubt has changed (or will ever change) is how foreigners are expected to work in the "Japanese way", which has always been the main reason they don't stay long in Japan. Based on my own experience, and from what I have seen from others, this won't work unless you were "conditioned" to cope with it from childhood - whether or not you speak the language. Another frequent complaint from foreigners in Japan is... loneliness. Language and cultural barriers keep them from developing friendships. Add to this that the Japanese will not accept you in their groups unless you speak the language and understand the culture - which they strongly believe foreigners are incapable of. This is why Japan has foreign people as TV celebrities ONLY because they speak Japanese fluently, which the Japanese still consider "amusing" to this date. I still remember how people stared at me in trains because I look "half-Japanese". Wearing sunglasses in trains became my thing, because we are sitting face to face, and I had nowhere else to look. LOL Finally, American entrepreneur Peter Payne (JAST USA) has written multiple articles over the years, where he is fluent in spoken and written Japanese, is married to a Japanese woman, all of his company's employees are Japanese, has his kids in Japanese schools, but can never truly be legally added to her family registry. His wife is still having visits from social workers because, according to civil records, she is an unmarried mother. In his social life, even after decades in Japan, he is still treated as a foreigner. People try speaking English with him even when they know he is fluent in Japanese. This is a frequent theme in RUclips videos. He makes jokes for how his Japanese employees come asking HIM how to write this or that kanji because he knows it better than them - and yet, he knows he will never become truly Japanese to them, or to others. But don't get me wrong - I am not criticizing. It is not my place to judge them. For the few years I lived in Japan, I have become a Japanese and never complained. The major reason I left was because I wanted to finish university and work in my field (IT), which in Japan from that era would be impossible. I was also extremely lonely - even after having learned the language and culture, I was still "not Japanese enough" for them. If I stayed in Japan, that would mean living a good part of my life as illiterate and working as such. Again, I am not criticizing or judging. I made my decision to leave due to what was best for me at the time. It's their culture, and it is not my place to judge. I did recover my lost identity, and I don't regret it. I left knowing what it means to be Japanese, so next time someone calls me that, I now know what it means.
@@Ken1171Designs Thank you for sharing your experience and observation. It's interesting in so many ways, as it highlights the many challenges Japan faces in attracting and retaining talent. I've worked for both Japanese and foreign firms, so I do understand to a certain degree. Considering the tech industry after 1990s, had you stayed in Japan, you may have become a billionaire like Masayoshi Son. These days, we are in real shortage of skilled professionals in IT, Hospitality/Tourism, as well as entrepreneurs. So much so the government started special visa programs, such as J-SKIP, J-FIND, and fast-track Permanent Residency to attract talent. As for the question on what level of adaptation and assimilation should we be requiring from people from abroad, I have no doubt Japanese society will welcome people who can adapt, integrate, and become part of Japan. But I also know (and also have experienced personally) the strong rejection to people who refuse assimilation, whether in language, norms, or behavior. With the rising of international marriages, in the past two decades, I think the GAI-Tare (外タレ) has shifted to Half-Japanese. These days there are so many Half-Japanese athletes, singers, actors, celebrities, etc. As for KOSEKI, one can only be registered in it if one has citizenship. Some Japanese nationals born overseas, miss out in receiving Japanese citizenship because their parents didn't go through the necessary registration at the time of birth with the local Consulate/Embassy. Th KOSEKI system is also how the Japanese government is able to confirm the ancestry of Japanese descendants all over the world. There are nearly 10,000 applicants for Naturalization each year, but I suspect Peter Payne didn't go through the process. Once naturalization is complete, the government will create a new family tree for that person.
Ótima história de uma vida que ainda terá muitas outras experiencias, parabéns por saber observar e aprender ao invés de ficar apenas lamentando. Obrigado por compartilhar...um livro sobre suas experiencias seria muito bom de ler.
That's funny. People from countries that have a heavy ethnic background have problems like that: Brazilians don't have this issue, Americans don't have this issue. My family is of Italian background and there is zero expectation from me to know Italian when I am talking to an Italian. That would be just a bonus. My family is Brazilian of Italian and Portuguese and native American decent, I was born in US and grew up in Brazil, the only expectation I had was that I was supposed to know Spanish, but that's from ignorant people who doesn't know that Brazil speaks Portuguese. Being American or Brazilian have no ethnical identity component, that's not what make me American or Brazilian in my mind -- I am both, my Brazilian accent is heavy, my American accent is thick and I made ZERO effort to hide them.
Oh goodness, the thing about feeling at home upon feeling the smell of food your grandparents used to make, and when the delivery guy called you Sasaki-san with correct pronunciation, that was pretty touching
Estou assistido este vídeo aqui em P.Alegre ( R.G.do Sul ) minha avó materna veio da Itália, há muitos anos atrás, ela faleceu fazem anos.A cultura japonesa despertou minha curiosidade em 2005 qd morei em Curitiba ( Paraná) lá foi a primeira vez, que convivi com nisseís. Por uma série de coincidências, decidi aprender a falar japonês, já sei cumprimentar. Gostei da tua história de vida.Siga buscando o que te faz bem.
Oi mari adorei o seu video e de conhecer um pouco mais da sua historia! Ter trabalhado ao seu lado foi maravilhoso e inspirador! Obrigada por compartilhar ❤️
Cai aqui de paraquedas e achei bem interessante sua visão. Minha família veio de Okinawa, meus avós não falavam japonês (não como primeira língua), e sim o uchinaguchi que era a língua da ilha antes de ser anexada ao Japão. Então, a língua, os costumes, as tradições etc são todas diferentes da ilha principal. Imagina para explicar que, sim, meus avós era “japoneses” mas não falavam japonês conosco. Kkkkkk Da um bug ma cabeça mesmo. Mas, como vieram muitos okinawanos para o Brasil, estavam sempre juntos, unidos, então acabávamos nos encontrando no mesmo ambiente. E assim, esta parte de não termos aprendido japonês, vale lembrar que durante um período, era proibido falar japonês por conta da guerra, os japoneses foram estigmatizados, não dá para culpar nossos avós/pais por não ensinarem. Eu também morei no Japão por três anos, juntei dinheiro para aprender inglês na Irlanda, e logo estarei por lá. Engraçado que, apesar de eu gostar muito da cultura japonesa (cultura, música, mangás, animes etc), eu não senti como se fosse “meu lugar”. Não tive oportunidade de ir a Okinawa,, quem sabe um dia. Vou a Europa e espero ter uma experiência melhor a que você teve… kkkkk Fique firme e forte, somos vencedores, e se foi difícil para nós, imagina para nossos antepassados que foram de navio, durante meses para um lugar que ninguém sabia como era… Temos escolhas ainda, somos privilegiados sim. Toda sorte do mundo pra você!
Great video and those people who said you should be ashamed for not speaking your ancestors language should be ashamed themselves, Ive experienced the exact same being half portuguese and can barely speak it but no one on this earth can tell me Im not Portuguese. When I lived in Tokyo 2019 - 2021 I didnt meet much Japanese Brazilians but I did notice a few Brazilian bars and restaurants in Tokyo. Im sure your ancestors are very proud that their lineage returned back to Japan and I hope all works out for you there. I just subscribed too so Ill watch your videos and see how your experience was different to mine living in that Tokyo, Ill be coming back next year to make a difference too. Keep up the good work :D
Ohh thank you for the sweet comment!! 😊😊😊 you should make a video about your experience in japan too! I would be very interested! Love hearing other people’s stories and experiences!! 😊
@@marianalikatv Im not to sure about doing videos but podcasts/interviews will have to be done soon, Because of the clothing and accessory brand Im creating inspired by my life and students in Tokyo. The main mission of it is to donate and volunteer at childrens home in Japan to give back and inspire the young minds of the future.
Oiii, me identifico muito com a história!! Você poderia falar um pouco de como conseguiu trabalho no Japão? Eu antes não queria ir para o Japão mas depois de um tempo eu quero ir para Japão e entender mais do meu lado japonês.
I’m Filipino American and I have friends that are Latino and other friends who’s parents are from south east Asia like Vietnam or east Asia like South Korea. One thing I noticed between them and me and my siblings/cousins is that their family continued to pass down their language and culture to their kids while also assimilating into the west. Whereas for us Filipinos it seems like once our parents got here they kind of just abandoned it for the sake of assimilating to their new home. It’s kind of sad. I mean what if I want to visit the Philippines and there’s some relatives that don’t speak English…how are we going to communicate directly? We can’t. I have some Brazilian friends and they do seem noticeably to themselves and cut off from the rest of South America culturally. At least initially. Which I suspect is because of the language barrier and the fact that Brazil is a very big country compared to the others. So I’m not surprised a Japanese-Brazilian would not be able to speak Japanese when Japan is so far away.
Die Welt ist wirklich klein. There is always more than what meets the eye. Um dia desses tava eu e minha esposa passeando pelas dunas da joaquina em floripa enquanto papeavamos em alemão, e qual não foi nossa surpresa ao sermos interpelamos por um cara azulão de tão preto perguntando pra a gente em alemão se gente não falava alemão. O cara era suíço.
eu vou falar em português para poder me expressar melhor, mas entendo essa sensação estranha de indentidade, minha familias são de varias partes do mundo, não sei se ambos dos seus pais japoneses, ai fica acho que fica mais facil de procurar uma indentidade, mas no meu caso é de pelo menos 3 nacionalidades misturadas que são proximas da minha familia, mas o que aprendi é só pegar a melhor parte de suas origens e você só se torna você e não importa de onde você é, mas eu sei que as coisas não são simples assim
I'm very sorry that was your experience in America, especially in New York. I'm a multi-ethnic American and have had very similar experiences traveling.
Eu como brasiliano acho isto um absurdo, uma falta de respeito, julgar-te e dizer-te o que tu és ou deixas de ser pela tua aparência. Pelo visto fora do Brazil as outras pessoas é quem decidem se tu podes ou não ser uma brasiliana. Não importa como tu sejas ou onde moras, tu sempre serás minha compatriota.
Muito obrigada pelo comentário! Pois é, somos constantemente julgados pela nossa aparência! Na verdade eles não estão errados né, de fato tenho o sangue japonês, mas nasci e cresci no Brasil, meu passaporte é brasileiro e sempre serei brasileira ! :)
minha familia é parte portuguesa com indio e do meu avô libanês. saiu do libano por ser cristão a época mulçumanos estavam perseguindo, formaram maioria, depois diminuiu e hoje formaram novamente, não tem como ir a um lugar instável, não sei falar nada, tenho alguns amigos de familias que vieram também com o mesmo problema já os que são mulçumanos aqui e vieram na mesma época não conversavam com nossas familias e até hoje não conversam, é estranho pois eles com maior numero não podemos saber nada da cultura fora a comida, meu avô não gostava de falar veio com ps pais e diziam que o Brasil era um paraiso, pra esquecer, só isso, sei que é lindo lá, parte da familia dele está lá mas brigaram quando veio por não se converter e até hoje não querem saber. eu as vezes sinto vontade de ver, sentir a cultura, calor e mar, campos moderados, neve, obviamente minha face se misturaria ali outras vezes acho que meu avô tem razão, fora a instabilidade do local.
O pessoal de outros países pensam que brasileiro é uma raça! Eu também dizia que era brasileiro e o povo falava que não, qando estive na Austrália e Nova Zelandia!
E mais fácil de vc ser descriminada no EUA do que no Brasil por que Brasil já cresceu com miscigenação e não se importavam de se misturar; diferente dos EUA que são muito segregradores. Não importa se e branco preto amarelo se vc e brasileiro ou meio Brasileiro sao meus irmãos e irmãs de país.
It’s sad how much xenophobia and ignorance u experienced every time you would explain your background. I’m glad you’ve been able to reconnect with your identity through living in Japan
A lot of this confusion (within yourself and also how other people perceive you) probably stems from how you grew up in a country where national identity comes from being born there (and possibly raised), but having origins in a country where race is conflated with nationality; and also discussing this kind of stuff with other people from countries that are like the latter. Perhaps the key to not letting it get to you may be acknowledging these sources of confusion and seeing it as a natural thing? I'm not sure because I don't suffer much from these problems, as I look like "most people" where I live, and thus never had, say, my nationality called into question by them, but I might soon. I'm a Brazilian in the process of getting my Italian citizenship recognized (as Italy officially recognizes citizenship by blood with no limits to generations). I'm expecting to hear many different takes in the future on whether I'm Italian or not, but in order to "feel" Italian and not have that identity questioned I'm trying to learn the standard Italian language (as I hear there are many different ones, taken as "dialects" by many, throughout the country). Even though I can probably get by with English when I eventually visit Italy, I want to learn the language in order to connect with people, closely observe their culture, and be able to compare it to my own.
That "hole" in your heart is there because you don't have God. You should give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ. He loves you and can fill that hole in your heart.
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I'm Japanese Peruvian Nikkei, and I am first of all, Catholic. So whatever they throw at me it's not gonna stick much because I have a strong foundation on my faith.
Like you, I was born and raised in Brazil where I lived 20 years of my life thinking I was japanese because I didn't fit 100% to Brazilian culture. Now I'm already 22 years straight living in Japan and discovered that I didn't fit 100% to the japanese culture too.
Both cultures has strong and weak points, I just learn to get the strong points of each culture, and I feel privileged that I had that chance to see and experienced the both sides in life.
P.S. Estudei meu primário em um colégio chamado Imperatriz Leopoldina, em São Paulo, que ensinava alemão também.
日本の生活で頑張ってください!
Exactly! Both cultures have strong and weak points and we are privileged for having experienced both of them! :)
De certa maneira, é o meu caso também. Até os cinco só falei alemão e cresci numa comunidade de ucranianos de língua alemã que tinham deixado a ucrânia em virtude da revolução de 1917. Só que eu nunca morei fora Brasil. Foram as inúmeras visitas de gringos alemães que me provaram definitivamente que eu não sou um alemão. O jeitinho brasileiro é nosso forte e igualmente a nossa fraqueza.
Japanese american here- i feel this so much. Ive learned to appreciate the fact that I experienced many cultures
Uma criança nasce sem pecado. No matter your genetics you don't hold responsibility for your ancestors sins. You should only be responsible for your own. The good side is that on the other hand your ancestry allows you to have a deep identity. Yours, use it as a banner, it is beautiful.
Parabéns por sair da “bolha” das empreiteiras e crescer como ser humano, focando na aprendizagem da língua japonesa. Vc é muito corajosa e batalhadora e tenho certeza que terá um futuro maravilhoso em todos os sentidos. Um video seu apareceu na minha página e resolvi assistir, e logo em seguida te reconheci. Você está diferente, por isso não tinha reconhecido de imediato. Eu cruzava com você na ida ao shokudo. Estou na Murata ainda, e daqui um tempo volto ao Brasil. Estou me esforçando para melhorar o inglês, e invejo sua fluência ! Tudo de bom para você !
Eita! Que coincidência me encontrar no RUclips! Nao consigo te reconhecer por causa da foto, muito pequena! Mas muito obrigada pelo comentário e boa sorte para você também! Tudo de bom! 😊
@@marianalikatv coincidência né…. 😀 Mas acho que temos amigos em comum talvez no Facebook…..
I'm a White American mainly of German ancestry, I studied Japanese and German in school, traveled to Japan and Germany, and my uncle is Brazilian. My cousins are half Filipino/a. My aunt is Puerto Rican. I have a half Brazilian cousin on my other side too. I am fortunate to have a diverse family. Also interesting you note your time in Germany, because Brazil has Germans too. Germans would be surprised to know Brazil is home to the 2nd largest German population outside of Germany after the US. Argentina is 3rd. Also the US has the 2nd largest Japanese population outside of Japan after Brazil, but they live mostly on the West Coast, California, Hawaii, and Washington State. That ignorant Middle Eastern guy telling you about what Japan did, well you are Brazilian and Brazil was on the allied side, your ancestors are Japanese. I'm American and my ancestors are from Germany mainly, I got all the WW2 comments too, jokes and such, in bad taste, others in jest, but seriously its a new Germany and i'm American I would say. People always would say well you know Germany did this in WW2...my reply was always well thats interesting information and all but my family immigrated to the US in the 1800s and 1900s and its the 21st century. Then I asked them, whats your background exactly? The only original Americans are Native Americans, so unless your indigenous your not originally from here either because everyone else is a descendent of a Colonizer, Slave, Indentured Servant, or Immigrant that came here voluntarily or was brought against their will, so.....yeah. Also you aren't unusual being Asian in ancestry but more Western in mindset, the Philippines as a result of being colonized by the Spanish has many Western cultural ties, they have Spanish last names, are Roman Catholic, learn English, study, work in the west and emigrate to the West often. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia have heavy British influence. The government elite and upper class model themselves on British culture in many ways especially in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Dude is a gene pool
Brazil has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan.
I understand where you coming from. My parents are from Indonesia but I was born in Brazil. I have Brazilian-Canadian citizenship. I also consider myself Brazilian. People say the same thing to me, they are like, no, you’re Indonesian because of parents. I am like, no. There were times where I did struggle but after awhile, I realized that I am proud to be Brazilian. I am not going let people tell me otherwise
Wow I’ve never met a person from Indonesia in Brazil. That’s so interesting! And what a coincidence! Today I saw a video about indonesia and was thinking of going soon! 😊
@@marianalikatv there are a number of us there in São Paulo, probably not as much as Japanese. My parents had moved to Brazil because my grandfather (his Dad) and my uncle and his family were there. My grandfather wanted to start a business and he thought Brazil was a better option, because he found America too competitive. I still have relatives there who live in Osasco and there are some that I keep in touch with on Facebook.
I always embraced my Brazilian side but it’s been more recent that I started to get more curious about my Indonesian heritage. The thing is too, I never had an issue with my identity until I moved to North America.
Such an interesting topic! ✨
You almost made me cry at the end (not surprising lol) because as I already told you, I have quite same background as you, same judgements from others, same desire to get closer to my asian roots and to pay tribute to my family who fought for a better life.
You are beautiful person Mariana, you can be proud of you ❤️😌 I wish you can achieve your goals! See you soon
Thank you again for you sweet comment Rani!! I’m glad you could relate!! 🥰🥰😘😘
hello ! Where do most Brazilians of Brazilian origin live most in brazil ? how can I make friends with them?😁😁😁
Hello Mari!! I think differences always will bring this kind of judgements at some point in our lives .It is just a mirror for us to know who we really are and reassure our essence .Regardless what we find out it is beautiful the way it is just because it is unique like you . You show me not just a wonderful person that you are but also the incredible esoteric and spiritual world that made me find out some clues of my soul path. Thank you for be in my life and share with others your experiences . Congrats for your chanel !!!
Thank you for your sweet message!! I love you!!! You are an amazing soul too and I hope you find your true path either here in Japan or in Brazil or anywhere you want in the world!! 🥺❤️💞💖
Hi Mari, nice video! It’s quite an interesting thing how do we share so much in common just because of our identical background, different lifes but so many same things! I really wish you all the best and I hope you achieve your goals anytime soon! Glad to have met you Mari, and I just have to say that, knowing you better just made me feel proud of you! You have just to be yourself, you’re doing great! Hugs from Brazil! Stay safe!
Thank you for your kind message Marcelo! Yeah, I think many Japanese-Brazilian people have similar experiences!! I wish you all the best too! 😊
parabens vc e uma de muitas e muitos guerreiros que aqui estao tentando fazer uma historia melhor aos seus familiares, sucesso e seja feliz
Muito obrigada! 🙏🏻😊
Something relevant about not being able to speak Japanese in Brazil is that Japanese was lost probably due to prohibitons on foreign languages being spoken and taught during the Getúlio Vargas regimes, especially during WWII when Japan, Germany and Italy were considered enemies and people descending from any of these nationalities were considered enemies and potential traitors. We were robbed of our families' languages by the Brazilian government and this is downplayed to this day. The whole talk about Brazilian identity from 1930s propaganda was meant to destroy local identities. To this day the perception of Brazil to foreigners is basically just the culture of Rio de Janeiro.
Japanese families, with Japan being a nation of a single ethnicity (or a very closely related set thereof), are very proud of their origins and will attempt to preserve their culture (and even ethnicity). That such families lost their language in Brazil was likely by the government's design.
Hello Sasaki san, happy to hear such a warm journey story! I feel so warm about how you are proud of your identity and family while living in a familiar but actually new environment. By the way, I find it interesting that people in non-immigration country like most of the countries in Asia, people are having such a strong connection to their culture and land. It doesn't mean they are necessarily patriotic, they just have that connections to many little things like the food or style of living you mentioned. So I feel like the first generation immigrants were really tough as they absolutely remained those culture connections deep in heart while living abroad. That's why I can understand that Chinese guy insisted on the language stuff (Although his way of expressing could be improved definitely 😂)
Thank you for the comment! 😊
Yeah, now I understand what that chinese guy wanted to say. That’s how probably my grandparents must have felt ! Thanks to that comment I can now speak Japanese lol so I’m grateful! Chinese people btw are very nice and sweet in general! When I travel abroad, the most kind and friendly people are the chinese 😊
I identify with your experience, also being Japanese-Brazilian, and having already done all this 37 years ago. I was raised on a town where my family were the ONLY Asians, so kids used to pick on me from the very beginning at school and social activities. Like you, they called me "Japanese", but I had no clue what that meant - my parents never taught me Japanese, and I was never exposed to the Japanese culture. The worst was not being identified by another nationality, but instead, not understanding what that meant. Hence the identity crisis.
Like you, I went to live in Japan - but not because I wanted to, but because my family decided to move back to Japan when I was 17. It was total culture shock, one after the other, and in the beginning, I could only work in low pay jobs because I couldn't speak the language. Even though that was in Tokyo, foreigners were RARE in Japan in the 1980s, to a point where if I stopped someone to ask for directions in English, they would panic and run away - literally.
I was working morning and afternoons in Tokyo to be able to study Japanese at night, trying to stay awake the best I could. After 1 year I could finally get an office job, and in only 2 years, they wanted to promote me to seishain, which is usually only allowed to the Japanese, so it was a great honor. However, I decided to go back to Brazil to finish university. That would take too long in Japan, not to mention it would be super expensive.
While I was living, working, and studying in Japan, I had become Japanese. They accepted me as part of the group, and that took a lot of time and effort. Perhaps too much time, and too much effort, because I was constantly making an effort to behave like people expected me to. The peer pressure was very high. That's why I left - I was not feeling I was home. Not that I feel home in Brazil - I don't, so I will forever be an outcast.
What I brought back from Japan was my lost identity, so I have finally become a whole person. Since then I have lived in many other countries, cultures, and languages in over 5 continents. I am still trying to settle, but never found a place I could call home.
I guarantee you Japan has changed quite a bit from the 1980s. Perhaps you may want to try Japan once more. We have more inbound tourists than outbound these days. If I recall, there were nearly 30 million visitors before the pandemic.
I suspect Tokyo is quite different from when you lived in Japan. Osaka or Okinawa...things have changed quite a bit. There are much more foreigners in the city, so much so you don't even notice. You'll realize it just by walking in Tokyo. Nowadays, trains have signs in English, Korean, and Chinese. I like Japan because the quality of goods, services, and healthcare are reasonable for the price...compared to some other countries where it's just way too expensive.
I'm not Nikkei-Brazilian but I understand some of your challenges, because I was also raised abroad and returned as a teenager. Although we spoke Japanese at home and I attended Japanese Saturday school, the transition into school in Japan was very demanding. Cultural adjustment was tough enough, but the academic side was near impossible at the beginning. When the language of instruction changes, you feel really dumb and helpless.
I thought Japanese education system was insane. I vividly remember in junior-high, when my Japanese skills and Kanji was still lagging compared to native students, I was studying KOBUN (古文) and KANBUN (漢文) for the high-school entrance exam. KOBUN are famous pieces such as GENJI MONOGATARI (源氏物語) or TSURE-TSURE-GUSA(徒然草), which are mostly literature from the HEIAN and KAMUKURA periods. KANBUN are famous Chinese poems, mostly from Tang dynasty era. In junior-high it's usually poems from 杜甫 or 李白.
As ironic as this may sound, if you weren't Japanese by blood, your experience may have been vastly different. People would have been praising how good your Japanese is. In other words, the expectations placed on you was the same as other Japanese people. You were perceived and accepted as a Japanese person, and not a foreigner. As you're aware, nobody will be complimenting a Japanese person for being able to speak proper Japanese or knowing KEIGO or Kanji. We actually think it's almost mandatory for a Japanese person to know Japanese...because that's how we communicate and identify each other.
@@yo2trader539 I bet things have changed since then - it has been decades now. Perhaps the major problem when I lived in Japan was that the government believed Japanese writing should only be taught much later to foreigners. None of the available courses would teach reading or writing - only speaking. That was a thing of that period, and it has backfired on me as soon as I got an office job. It takes a lifetime for the Japanese to learn kanji, so delaying that for foreigners was a grave mistake. To put things in perspective, even if had started learning kanji as soon as I arrived, I was already a decade behind a normal Japanese kid.
You are totally correct when it comes to going to Japan as a nikkei - they have full expectations of you as a full Japanese, which led me into all sorts of inexcusable culture shocks. They find it "cute" if it were a foreigner, but unacceptable if you are a nikkei. That's what I meant when I've mentioned the "peer pressure".
There was also the staggering difference in treatment to Americans, at least it was so in the 80s. They were treated like CELEBRITIES, unbelievable stuff. I have met other nikkei, but the ones from the US were put in a pedestal - probably for historical reasons (the US won the war). That was not unique to Japan, though. I have seen that in other countries I have lived on. These people believed the US was like what they saw on TV. LOL
@@Ken1171DesignsThe reason why I recommended Japan was I know the powerful intoxicating feeling of re-connecting with your ancestral roots. Visiting your ancestor's original region (or even OHAKA) is a special experience each time.
But I really do understand what you mean. If I had money or influence, I'd be building lots of bilingual and trilingual schools--from full cultural immersion day-care centers to high-school to universities--in areas with large concentration of Japanese Descendants and Expats. Having to learn a language/culture as an adult is almost like torture, especially when you didn't grow up with it.
I've met and worked with Nikkei-Canadians, Colombians, Brazilians, Peruvians, and Americans. Since I've personally experienced language and cultural barriers, I'm unhappy with the predicament of the Nikkei-Brazilians both in Brazil and in Japan. Since many are now 3rd generation and beyond, some of them are arriving in Japan without even basic language fluency. And the ones who have valuable technical skills--such as in engineering, architecture, medicine, science, IT, education--are often unable to take advantage of their degree and professional background because of the language barrier of both Japanese and English. It's a tremendous opportunity loss for them and for Japan. And this is a major difference between Nikkei-Americans/Canadians and Nikkei-Peruvians/Brazilians who are coming to Japan. Most of the Nikkei-Americans/Canadians are English-speaking College-educated, and have studied Japanese in college. Many of them are able to find good jobs in Tokyo because of their English-skills and college degrees.
Frankly, the people who have command of business-level Japanese, English, and Portuguese in their technical/professional fields have very successful careers around the world including Japan. They would be more valuable than native-Japanese kids or the Nikkei-Canadian/Americans. However, because of the language barriers, so many Nikkei-Brazilians are forced to take up jobs in factories with basic pay. Their experience in Japan is beyond challenging because they are unable to understand the language/culture around them. Some of them cannot survive outside of the Nikkei-Brazilian communities in Japan. What kind of experience would it be if you're living in Japan, but cannot understand or appreciate the history and culture, or make Japanese friends because of communication issues.
The Japanese government offers preferential visa schemes for Japanese Descendants, but I think we need to do more to teach, train, and educate the Nikkei-Brazilians while they're in Brazil. I don't like the idea that they have to relocate to Japan and work in factories, so they can save enough for college in Brazil. There should be Japanese language programs, technical training, and scholarships available for the Japanese Descendants.
As for myself, I had to suck it up, because I had no excuse. I don't think I've ever studied or struggled as I did after that period. It took me minimum 3 years just to catch up. I think I read almost every possible book that I can get a hold of during that time, just to learn about Japanese history, language, expressions, culture, idioms, KANJI, or how Japanese society was/is structured. (I didn't know any famous Japanese celebrities, singers, comedians, or TV shows, so that was an entirely different adjustment. We were so away from Japan for so long, my entire family was like URASHIMA-TARO when we returned.)
That said, with more and more non-Japanese Asian-looking people living in and visiting Japan, I suspect the expectation and "peer pressure" may have eased a bit since the last time you lived in Japan. These days we have 3 million foreign-nationals living in Japan, mostly concentrated in Tokyo, Osaka, and Aichi/Gifu/Shizuoka. One million of them are Chinese-nationals, half a million are South Korean nationals, and 300,000 Vietnamese and Philippines, respectively. There are nearly 200,000 Brazilian-nationals, who are mostly Japanese Descendants (and their spouses). And of the 30 million inbound tourists, many of them are from South Korea, China, Taiwan, HK, Singapore, Thailand, etc.
@@yo2trader539 I have no doubt there should be more foreigners in Japan nowadays than there were in the 80s. And that's not difficult considering there were nearly none back then. However, one thing I doubt has changed (or will ever change) is how foreigners are expected to work in the "Japanese way", which has always been the main reason they don't stay long in Japan. Based on my own experience, and from what I have seen from others, this won't work unless you were "conditioned" to cope with it from childhood - whether or not you speak the language.
Another frequent complaint from foreigners in Japan is... loneliness. Language and cultural barriers keep them from developing friendships. Add to this that the Japanese will not accept you in their groups unless you speak the language and understand the culture - which they strongly believe foreigners are incapable of. This is why Japan has foreign people as TV celebrities ONLY because they speak Japanese fluently, which the Japanese still consider "amusing" to this date. I still remember how people stared at me in trains because I look "half-Japanese". Wearing sunglasses in trains became my thing, because we are sitting face to face, and I had nowhere else to look. LOL
Finally, American entrepreneur Peter Payne (JAST USA) has written multiple articles over the years, where he is fluent in spoken and written Japanese, is married to a Japanese woman, all of his company's employees are Japanese, has his kids in Japanese schools, but can never truly be legally added to her family registry. His wife is still having visits from social workers because, according to civil records, she is an unmarried mother. In his social life, even after decades in Japan, he is still treated as a foreigner. People try speaking English with him even when they know he is fluent in Japanese. This is a frequent theme in RUclips videos. He makes jokes for how his Japanese employees come asking HIM how to write this or that kanji because he knows it better than them - and yet, he knows he will never become truly Japanese to them, or to others.
But don't get me wrong - I am not criticizing. It is not my place to judge them. For the few years I lived in Japan, I have become a Japanese and never complained. The major reason I left was because I wanted to finish university and work in my field (IT), which in Japan from that era would be impossible. I was also extremely lonely - even after having learned the language and culture, I was still "not Japanese enough" for them. If I stayed in Japan, that would mean living a good part of my life as illiterate and working as such.
Again, I am not criticizing or judging. I made my decision to leave due to what was best for me at the time. It's their culture, and it is not my place to judge. I did recover my lost identity, and I don't regret it. I left knowing what it means to be Japanese, so next time someone calls me that, I now know what it means.
@@Ken1171Designs Thank you for sharing your experience and observation. It's interesting in so many ways, as it highlights the many challenges Japan faces in attracting and retaining talent. I've worked for both Japanese and foreign firms, so I do understand to a certain degree.
Considering the tech industry after 1990s, had you stayed in Japan, you may have become a billionaire like Masayoshi Son. These days, we are in real shortage of skilled professionals in IT, Hospitality/Tourism, as well as entrepreneurs. So much so the government started special visa programs, such as J-SKIP, J-FIND, and fast-track Permanent Residency to attract talent.
As for the question on what level of adaptation and assimilation should we be requiring from people from abroad, I have no doubt Japanese society will welcome people who can adapt, integrate, and become part of Japan. But I also know (and also have experienced personally) the strong rejection to people who refuse assimilation, whether in language, norms, or behavior. With the rising of international marriages, in the past two decades, I think the GAI-Tare (外タレ) has shifted to Half-Japanese. These days there are so many Half-Japanese athletes, singers, actors, celebrities, etc.
As for KOSEKI, one can only be registered in it if one has citizenship. Some Japanese nationals born overseas, miss out in receiving Japanese citizenship because their parents didn't go through the necessary registration at the time of birth with the local Consulate/Embassy. Th KOSEKI system is also how the Japanese government is able to confirm the ancestry of Japanese descendants all over the world. There are nearly 10,000 applicants for Naturalization each year, but I suspect Peter Payne didn't go through the process. Once naturalization is complete, the government will create a new family tree for that person.
Ótima história de uma vida que ainda terá muitas outras experiencias, parabéns por saber observar e aprender ao invés de ficar apenas lamentando. Obrigado por compartilhar...um livro sobre suas experiencias seria muito bom de ler.
Muito obrigada!! Quem sabe num futuro proximo! Rsrs
That's funny. People from countries that have a heavy ethnic background have problems like that: Brazilians don't have this issue, Americans don't have this issue. My family is of Italian background and there is zero expectation from me to know Italian when I am talking to an Italian. That would be just a bonus. My family is Brazilian of Italian and Portuguese and native American decent, I was born in US and grew up in Brazil, the only expectation I had was that I was supposed to know Spanish, but that's from ignorant people who doesn't know that Brazil speaks Portuguese. Being American or Brazilian have no ethnical identity component, that's not what make me American or Brazilian in my mind -- I am both, my Brazilian accent is heavy, my American accent is thick and I made ZERO effort to hide them.
Oh goodness, the thing about feeling at home upon feeling the smell of food your grandparents used to make, and when the delivery guy called you Sasaki-san with correct pronunciation, that was pretty touching
Estou assistido este vídeo aqui em P.Alegre ( R.G.do Sul ) minha avó materna veio da Itália, há muitos anos atrás, ela faleceu fazem anos.A cultura japonesa despertou minha curiosidade em 2005 qd morei em Curitiba ( Paraná) lá foi a primeira vez, que convivi com nisseís. Por uma série de coincidências, decidi aprender a falar japonês, já sei cumprimentar. Gostei da tua história de vida.Siga buscando o que te faz bem.
Obrigada pelo comentário e pelas palavras! 🙏🏻
Oi mari adorei o seu video e de conhecer um pouco mais da sua historia! Ter trabalhado ao seu lado foi maravilhoso e inspirador! Obrigada por compartilhar ❤️
Obrigada Yasmin pela mensagem linda!! Saudades!! 🥰❤️
Cai aqui de paraquedas e achei bem interessante sua visão. Minha família veio de Okinawa, meus avós não falavam japonês (não como primeira língua), e sim o uchinaguchi que era a língua da ilha antes de ser anexada ao Japão. Então, a língua, os costumes, as tradições etc são todas diferentes da ilha principal. Imagina para explicar que, sim, meus avós era “japoneses” mas não falavam japonês conosco. Kkkkkk Da um bug ma cabeça mesmo. Mas, como vieram muitos okinawanos para o Brasil, estavam sempre juntos, unidos, então acabávamos nos encontrando no mesmo ambiente.
E assim, esta parte de não termos aprendido japonês, vale lembrar que durante um período, era proibido falar japonês por conta da guerra, os japoneses foram estigmatizados, não dá para culpar nossos avós/pais por não ensinarem. Eu também morei no Japão por três anos, juntei dinheiro para aprender inglês na Irlanda, e logo estarei por lá. Engraçado que, apesar de eu gostar muito da cultura japonesa (cultura, música, mangás, animes etc), eu não senti como se fosse “meu lugar”. Não tive oportunidade de ir a Okinawa,, quem sabe um dia. Vou a Europa e espero ter uma experiência melhor a que você teve… kkkkk Fique firme e forte, somos vencedores, e se foi difícil para nós, imagina para nossos antepassados que foram de navio, durante meses para um lugar que ninguém sabia como era… Temos escolhas ainda, somos privilegiados sim. Toda sorte do mundo pra você!
Obrigada pelo comentário! Boa sorte na Europa! :) eu fiquei um tempo na Alemanha e não gostei! Kkkkkk mas cada um tem sua experiência né!
@@marianalikatv kkkkk eu entendo! Cada um tem uma experiência e vivência diferente mesmo! Admiro demais tua coragem! Abs!
Hey I'm half Brazilian half German. I really would like to know your story about staying in Germany 😊. I apologize for the bad people in Germany.
I’ll make a video about that in the future :)
Great video and those people who said you should be ashamed for not speaking your ancestors language should be ashamed themselves, Ive experienced the exact same being half portuguese and can barely speak it but no one on this earth can tell me Im not Portuguese.
When I lived in Tokyo 2019 - 2021 I didnt meet much Japanese Brazilians but I did notice a few Brazilian bars and restaurants in Tokyo.
Im sure your ancestors are very proud that their lineage returned back to Japan and I hope all works out for you there.
I just subscribed too so Ill watch your videos and see how your experience was different to mine living in that Tokyo, Ill be coming back next year to make a difference too.
Keep up the good work :D
Ohh thank you for the sweet comment!! 😊😊😊 you should make a video about your experience in japan too! I would be very interested! Love hearing other people’s stories and experiences!! 😊
@@marianalikatv Im not to sure about doing videos but podcasts/interviews will have to be done soon, Because of the clothing and accessory brand Im creating inspired by my life and students in Tokyo. The main mission of it is to donate and volunteer at childrens home in Japan to give back and inspire the young minds of the future.
@@MarlondonDJTV really? that is wonderful! are you a part of a church or something? I would like to know more about this! this is awesome!
Seu depoimento é inspirador e emocionante!
Muito obrigada! 🙏🏻😊
As a half German half Brazilian I had the same experience like you had in New York with the Pearl Harbor guy. Some Americans are extremely ignorant
Im so sorry you had this experience too. Its very unpleasant indeed! :/
I'm also japanese from Brazil! One day I'll move to another country.
Oiii, me identifico muito com a história!! Você poderia falar um pouco de como conseguiu trabalho no Japão? Eu antes não queria ir para o Japão mas depois de um tempo eu quero ir para Japão e entender mais do meu lado japonês.
Quando eu vim pela primeira vez eu vim para trabalhar em fábrica, então vim por uma empreiteira. O jeito mais fácil para quem é descendente!
I’m Filipino American and I have friends that are Latino and other friends who’s parents are from south east Asia like Vietnam or east Asia like South Korea. One thing I noticed between them and me and my siblings/cousins is that their family continued to pass down their language and culture to their kids while also assimilating into the west. Whereas for us Filipinos it seems like once our parents got here they kind of just abandoned it for the sake of assimilating to their new home. It’s kind of sad. I mean what if I want to visit the Philippines and there’s some relatives that don’t speak English…how are we going to communicate directly? We can’t. I have some Brazilian friends and they do seem noticeably to themselves and cut off from the rest of South America culturally. At least initially. Which I suspect is because of the language barrier and the fact that Brazil is a very big country compared to the others. So I’m not surprised a Japanese-Brazilian would not be able to speak Japanese when Japan is so far away.
Die Welt ist wirklich klein.
There is always more than what meets the eye.
Um dia desses tava eu e minha esposa passeando pelas dunas da joaquina em floripa enquanto papeavamos em alemão, e qual não foi nossa surpresa ao sermos interpelamos por um cara azulão de tão preto perguntando pra a gente em alemão se gente não falava alemão. O cara era suíço.
I wish you all the best in Japan, がんばれ！
Best wishes for you from back home
Obrigada pelos comentários e boa sorte em
Sua jornada tambem! :)
eu vou falar em português para poder me expressar melhor, mas entendo essa sensação estranha de indentidade, minha familias são de varias partes do mundo, não sei se ambos dos seus pais japoneses, ai fica acho que fica mais facil de procurar uma indentidade, mas no meu caso é de pelo menos 3 nacionalidades misturadas que são proximas da minha familia, mas o que aprendi é só pegar a melhor parte de suas origens e você só se torna você e não importa de onde você é, mas eu sei que as coisas não são simples assim
Sou japonesa por parte de pai e mãe mas nasci e cresci no Brasil né! Minha cabeça é ocidental! Kkkk
Your face changed when you started speaking about being in Japan
You belong there
I'm very sorry that was your experience in America, especially in New York. I'm a multi-ethnic American and have had very similar experiences traveling.
Eu como brasiliano acho isto um absurdo, uma falta de respeito, julgar-te e dizer-te o que tu és ou deixas de ser pela tua aparência. Pelo visto fora do Brazil as outras pessoas é quem decidem se tu podes ou não ser uma brasiliana. Não importa como tu sejas ou onde moras, tu sempre serás minha compatriota.
Muito obrigada pelo comentário! Pois é, somos constantemente julgados pela nossa aparência! Na verdade eles não estão errados né, de fato tenho o sangue japonês, mas nasci e cresci no Brasil, meu passaporte é brasileiro e sempre serei brasileira ! :)
You have a great story! Cheers
You are brilliant!!
Please have more English content in future videos..
Sure! Thank you! 😊
minha familia é parte portuguesa com indio e do meu avô libanês.
saiu do libano por ser cristão a época mulçumanos estavam perseguindo, formaram maioria, depois diminuiu e hoje formaram novamente, não tem como ir a um lugar instável, não sei falar nada, tenho alguns amigos de familias que vieram também com o mesmo problema já os que são mulçumanos aqui e vieram na mesma época não conversavam com nossas familias e até hoje não conversam, é estranho pois eles com maior numero não podemos saber nada da cultura fora a comida, meu avô não gostava de falar veio com ps pais e diziam que o Brasil era um paraiso, pra esquecer, só isso, sei que é lindo lá, parte da familia dele está lá mas brigaram quando veio por não se converter e até hoje não querem saber.
eu as vezes sinto vontade de ver, sentir a cultura, calor e mar, campos moderados, neve, obviamente minha face se misturaria ali outras vezes acho que meu avô tem razão, fora a instabilidade do local.
Acho que se um dia tiver a oportunidade de conhecer a terra dos seus antepassados, seria uma experiência única e muito enriquecedora! :)
Interesting story i live in Uk as well but i face other issues.
Relato maravilhoso!
Você é tão linda ❤
Greetings from 🇸🇷Suriname👋
Groeten vanuit Suriname
O pessoal de outros países pensam que brasileiro é uma raça! Eu também dizia que era brasileiro e o povo falava que não, qando estive na Austrália e Nova Zelandia!
👏👏👏
E mais fácil de vc ser descriminada no EUA do que no Brasil por que Brasil já cresceu com miscigenação e não se importavam de se misturar; diferente dos EUA que são muito segregradores. Não importa se e branco preto amarelo se vc e brasileiro ou meio Brasileiro sao meus irmãos e irmãs de país.
Deusa
It’s sad how much xenophobia and ignorance u experienced every time you would explain your background. I’m glad you’ve been able to reconnect with your identity through living in Japan
É brasileira, sim !
💪👏
you are so beautiful ☺
A lot of this confusion (within yourself and also how other people perceive you) probably stems from how you grew up in a country where national identity comes from being born there (and possibly raised), but having origins in a country where race is conflated with nationality; and also discussing this kind of stuff with other people from countries that are like the latter. Perhaps the key to not letting it get to you may be acknowledging these sources of confusion and seeing it as a natural thing? I'm not sure because I don't suffer much from these problems, as I look like "most people" where I live, and thus never had, say, my nationality called into question by them, but I might soon. I'm a Brazilian in the process of getting my Italian citizenship recognized (as Italy officially recognizes citizenship by blood with no limits to generations). I'm expecting to hear many different takes in the future on whether I'm Italian or not, but in order to "feel" Italian and not have that identity questioned I'm trying to learn the standard Italian language (as I hear there are many different ones, taken as "dialects" by many, throughout the country). Even though I can probably get by with English when I eventually visit Italy, I want to learn the language in order to connect with people, closely observe their culture, and be able to compare it to my own.
I know now i’m both japanese and brazilian :) people’s opinion or any circustance will change what i am :)
Sinceramente esse brasileiro não me representa, falar bobagens para você
That "hole" in your heart is there because you don't have God. You should give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ. He loves you and can fill that hole in your heart.
The Chinese guy and Middle Eastern guy were annoying, lol. Unsolicited opinions are not always helpful.
Lol