Comments by "Gordon Graham" (@gordonbgraham) on "What’s it like being Half White in Japan?" video.

I think, as generally speaking the Japanese mother raises the children in Japan, it's more likely that having a Japanese mother will lead to kids being more Japanese minded socially. My wife is Japanese and we have 5 kids. Our kids identify as Japanese rather than Canadian.
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I've lived in Japan since 1988 and have 5 kids who are mixed. I've never had anything other than just plain service without any staff taking any notice of what race any of us were. None whatsoever
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@akuseru85 I’ve noticed a lot of pandering to a Western audience, playing up stereotypes and tropes to satisfy their appetites for “the Japanese are xenophobic” type piffle, when the fact is most Japanese are just regular people who rarely give a moments notice or thought about foreigners good or bad.
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@bobbykite8705 Actually, I went back to listen to exactly what she said. She hadn't seen such a thing herself, she assumed it happens and used that as an example about how a "half" Japanese person might get treated. I'm going to delete my comment. I shouldn't have made such a harsh judgement.
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It's mainly because Western men want a traditional stay-at-home mom to build a family with. Western women who come to Japan are rarely traditional-minded, which is what Japanese men, in general, also like.
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Yes, they have plenty of slang terms. For example, a one-night stand is called "Omochi-kaeri" which means "to go" as in take out food
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White heterosexual males in North America--perceived as the devil (there are now courses in university about "whiteness"...and "whiteness" is perceived as a negative thing)
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channels are mainly concerned with views rather than content
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@gantz4u like I’ve said. Show me the proof and I’ll concede, otherwise it’s just piffle peddled on the Internet and passed off as real by naive people who pass it on to others who in turn perpetrate that nonsense. Take it from someone who has lived in Japan for more than 30 years…It’s not true
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2 of the current Miss Japan contestant winners have been Black and Indian. These women were chosen as representatives of ideal beauty in Japan. They each won 2 contests, judged by a panel of 7 Japanese judges, one for their prefecture, the other for Japan.
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@Nilithic I miss the hypocrisy in that mindset. Please explain it to me.
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@neilmanx1001 The contests are sponsored and run by cosmetic companies whose target audience is Japanese women from 15~35 mainly. They care less about international opinion than they do promoting beauty standards to the Japanese women who buy their products
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It doesn't matter to anyone but people who are looking to be offended. I'm the father of 5 bi-racial children. They all have plenty of friends who know them for who they are rather than what they look like.
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@Nilithic Of course, some people judge. Not enough to make any difference in anyone’s life. There are 3 million foreign nationals living in Japan. There are 30 million foreign visitors to Japan each year. Bi-racial children are the fastest growing demographic in Japan. You can’t swing a cat without hitting a foreign looking person. Nobody cares anymore. This isn’t 1980. Time to get a calendar and stop railing at your 1980s Japan.
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@Nilithic The 1980's called. They want their calendar back.
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@Nilithic I think it's delusional to imagine restaurants turning away customers because they're foreign to be a common thing in Japan. There were 30 million foreign visitors to Japan last year and there are 3 million foreign nationals living in Japan. Seeing a foreign face is nothing unusual. it's not the 1980"s anymore. Nobody pays any attention nor interest to foreigners for being foreign. No one cares...except foreigners online imagining that extremely rare scenarios are the norm, such as a foreign patron being refused service for being foreign in a country that has as many foreign visitors in one year as Canada's entire population. Rare scenarios we never actually see in spite of people having a camera in their hands 24/7. And one I've never seen in more than 30 years living in Japan. I have 5 kids and we eat out about twice a week. That's a lot of anecdotes. So allow me to reserve my credulity on what sounded like a "soapland" incident rather than a restaurant.
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Japan doesn't recognize "anchor babies". To be recognized as Japanese your son has to be registered in the family registrar. If he lives in Japan for 10 years without getting into any trouble, he'll most certainly get permanent residency. He could also get citizenship. He'd have to renounce his Australian citizenship as Japan doesn't allow dual citizenship.
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@gantz4u Listen again. She said nothing about her own experience. She relayed what a friend told her. Her friend was full of sh...I've lived in Japan since 1988. I've never seen such a restaurant that charges foreigners more than native Japanese. Not one...Tell me where I can verify this claim you're making. I've literally been in hundreds of restaurants. There have been no such menus...only English menus with the exact same price.
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@gantz4u You're the one making the claim. What restaurant specifically. Name one...just one. The lady said she knew a friend who...That's bs.
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@gantz4u The “gaijin tax” thing you heard is not true
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@gantz4u She's wrong. It's only "soapland" establishments or "hostess clubs" clubs with exorbitant fees that most foreigners don't understand. It's conflict avoidance rather than xenophobia. She, herself, didn't experience that. Listen carefully, she only imagined it.
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The girl from Boston probably has better Japanese...
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@gantz4u I’ve lived in Japan since 1988 and have never seen a no foreigners sign outside of “soapland” establishments…which are for prostitution
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Where did you get that 80% piffle?
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@bobbykite8705 Cheers
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90% of white women over the age of 25 are obese
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@Nilithic eyes are not skin. Japanese are white...unless they're tanned
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I was informed at my interview for the Teachers' Licensing program at York University in Toronto, Canada...and I quote..."We're not currently accepting applications from white males". That wasn't the case in Japan. I was welcomed with open arms by Rikkyo University's education department.
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I don't get it. What is the 3rd culture? Japanese/Canadian kids are 2 culture kids, not 3.
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@Chris_T_Ramos I have 5 kids all born and raised in Japan. I’d like to know what you mean by “they don’t fully fit in”. Can you give me an example of their “not fully fitting in”? Could you also give me an example of what that 3rd culture’s defining characteristics are…such as language, clothing, food, art, music.
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Generally speaking, Japanese men prefer traditional, stay-at-home mothers. Generally speaking, the white women who come to live in Japan are English teachers who tend to be less than traditional minded about a woman's role in the home
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