Comments by "Sebastian Rubio" (@sebastianrubio928) on "Being Japanese American in Japan" video.

  1. Another great video Nobita-san. I related to a lot of these points, I'm Chilean living in Belgium for most of my life. I speak Spanish, it was the first language I learned, but here's where it gets really complicated; here in Belgium half of the country speaks French, the other half speaks dutch and in the capital you meet a lot of English speaking people, either they're American/British or they're just from some other foreign country. I live in the middle of you country, I basically had a lot of exposure to both languages, in fact I went to school in French at first, then switched to Dutch. Sounds complicated? There's more => this country has roughly about a 35% of the population either direct immigrants or second/third generation immigrants, in practice this means you get to experience a lot of different cultures. Basically in my own case I speak fluently 4 languages (+ some basic Japanese & basic German, there's a germanic part of Belgium too) and in my daily life, I some times am around very different people with different backgrounds. I mean at my own work we got like 20 different nationalities and in practise that takes some adapting. I don't really feel Chilean, when I'm in Chile I'm seen as the foreigner even though I can write & speak the language fluently (I just got a different accent, because of my parents), as Belgian we don't feel proud either, that's just not a thing here. On paper I am both Chilean and Belgian (got both nationalities), but I don't think I feel like half or anything like that, nationality or culture doesn't really matter to me. One last thing I'd like to share: I kinda look white, kinda, but in practice I've had direct discrimination to soft discrimination based on my look. The thing is, I got green eyes, dark hair and I'm 5 7, which is short for europeans it gets weirder with my beard, it has patches of blonde with some very light brown and some black at the edges, it kinda looks scandinavian I've been told. Basically Europeans "notice" I'm not really "from here". I've been called many times by racist pricks, funny enough even been called Japanese & Asian (not that farfetched I got some Asia genes in my ancestry, some direct family members could easily pass as Asians). I'm curious to see how Japanese will react to a person like me, I bet they'll be really confused, even more confused to see me speaking some Japanese :p. (I'm working on improving it)
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