hello everybody I am back again to talk
to you about more half Japanese stuff
shout out to time with Becca for
actually giving me an unconscious push
to actually make this video so before I
jump into this video being half Japanese
and half white American there's going to
be some differences if you're half is
like black or Latin or whatever this is
just my own
list so here are five things about being
half Japanese or Hau in Japan number one
be prepared for being accepted but not
at the same time when you're half
Japanese speak Japanese and Japanese
people know this they kind of have this
familiarity thing going on with you
where they kind of start to forget that
you're half and they kind of treat you
like a Japanese person they end up
forgetting about your ganness but then
later on they remember that you're gin
and then start treating you completely
like a gan I grew up in the US so I am
somewhat gun but for the Hau and in
Japan who were born there raised there
and maybe even primarily only speak
Japanese Japanese people will never
really kind of accept them as just
Japanese we are still kind of consider
our own category of Hau and not consider
just Japanese yet things are starting to
kind of change an example from me though
even my own relatives who obviously know
that my mom is Japanese would ask
questions like how do you use chopsticks
so well do you like Japanese food and
I'm like yes yes I like Japanese food I
can use chopsticks that is why I can do
these things and on the topic of
acceptance I didn't grow up in Japan so
I can't really say too much about this
but I know for a lot of Hau kids growing
up in Japan was kind of hard there's a
lot of bullying Japan is mostly a
homogeneous Nation so if you're half
you're going to look really different
and so you might get bullied when you're
a young kid which is really unfortunate
maybe you guys who are watching who are
Hau who grew up in Japan can talk more
about this topic uh I didn't grow up
there so I really can't say but this
bullying thing does seem to kind of go
away around middle school or high school
and you know why is that well let me
tell you in the next Point number two be
prepared for all the your cool/cute
comments this comes a lot more from the
younger Generations but if you're half
there's this Association that being half
makes you cool automatically or cute
automatically just on that basis it's
almost like an instant celeb status I
can't tell you how many times I got like
oh you're half hak ik I wish I was half
it's a little overboard I remember one
time I was at a bar with my friend and
this group of Japanese girls kept
looking over and looking over at me I
was like what is going on finally they
just walked over they started talking to
me they found out I was half and they're
like can we take a picture with you I
was like sure kind of funny they took my
picture they walked out and I never saw
him again and that was that so I have to
admit hearing this eek man you're cool
all the time is a little bit of an ego
boost which is not bad but later on I
started seeing these maybe some of these
same people who would say like oh Max
Rik man or Kakui and then they start
referring to other people who I don't
really deem as attractive or cool at all
and they'll say the same thing like oh
this person's also eek men and I'd be
like you know if if you think they're e
man I don't really want to be called e
man anymore so yeah number three be
prepared for the hilarity of office
places restaurants or any place you have
to directly talk to a service rep what
does this mean confused looks when
Japanese people don't know if they
should speak English to you or Japanese
to you the confusion of when they see
your Japanese name and look at your face
and they're like how how is this
possible and then the hilarity of
freaking having to write something in
Kani and just failing so hard and just
laughing at it there's so many times
where I was at the bank having to fill
out stuff and the bank teller's laughing
I'm laughing I'm just like like here I
don't know what I'm doing with this
kanji you should probably just write it
and they would like write it for me and
we'd have a good laugh together and yeah
that happened a lot number four be
prepared to use your halfes to your
advantage what I mean by this is you are
going to be doing a lot of G and
smashing my friend and if you don't know
what G and smash is G and smash is where
you pretend you don't know the culture
you don't know how to speak Japanese and
you just speak English instead so for
example if you're walking down the
street and someone's trying to sell you
something start speaking in English and
they'll start ignoring you and if they
do happen to speak English just start
speaking some Spanish or something but
at other times when it's more convenient
you can just pretend to be Japanese so
if a foreign guy is trying to solicit
something to you you just speak in
Japanese and then they'll ignore you
that way I do have to say though
sometimes it's a little difficult with
the cops because being half Japanese
once again sometimes I do get stopped by
the police where they want to look for
my gion card which is basically saying
that you're you're legal to live here if
you're a foreigner and of course I'm
half Japanese I'm Japanese citizen I
don't have one of these gajen cards so
if you're Hof in Japan be prepared to
sometimes be stopped by the police and
have to explain your entire life story
it almost feels racist in a way but you
know you've got your disadvantages and
your advantages of being H I think it's
mostly advantages number five be
prepared to realize you are not alone in
this chances are if you're in Tokyo
you're going to see a lot of other
happies and probably meet them and then
immediately feel this really cool weird
awesome bond with them I mean for me it
wasn't every day that I could just meet
another half Japanese person and just
suddenly relate on so many levels it's
really cool to be able to talk to
someone and find out that you share a
lot of similarities experiences and
upbringing and it's really cool and not
to mention you'll probably be hanging
out with all these happy groups in the
midst of all these Japanese people and
you start to feel really cool because
you're like this different group of
people I've never been in so many
different groups of happies before and
even even Lola who we've mentioned
before is a mixed Japanese celebrity she
posted on her Instagram the other day
where she got to get together with a
whole bunch of other half Japanese
people who are also famous in Japan and
they're just hanging out and it just
goes to show you that you're not alone
if you're Hau I'm not alone and there's
really a lot of us out there you know
this is a little bit off topic but I do
want to say that I was a part of this
one commercial called it was for burnt
energy there's a whole bunch of people
who had to be in it I think it was like
a thousand people so they had all their
extra who were Japanese then you had
your really modelik tall Japanese people
like some dancers and then there's this
group of happies from the Gin Squad and
when we walked into the get together
room for the shoot all eyes were staring
on us and I almost busted out laughing
because I was like this attention is
just too much it's so funny but that
once again I'm just trying to say that
there is this huge like celeb status
that kind of comes about being happy I
mean this is why there's like this happy
boom going on there's a much wider
Acceptance Now now that's really cool in
my opinion it's really growing and some
of this might be because there's some
weird obsession with Hau or it's some
Japanese people who really want to have
half Japanese babies because they think
they're cute which is a little weird
it's it's not bad but yeah I think Japan
is really becoming more Multicultural
and people are really starting to
realize how much they're changing anyway
that's the end of this video thanks
again so much for watching if you are
half and have something you want to
mention just post it in the comments
below of your experience es I live there
and I this is my own list but I'm sure
there's going to be a whole bunch of
other things that we can relate on and
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