Comments by "" (@MayaTheDecemberGirl) on "What's It Like Being Half Japanese In Japan? | Street Interview" video.

  1.  @yo2trader539  I think it's indeed better, just to talk about nationality of people.
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  2. Well, apart from race there is also ethnicity. So saying just half Japanese and half white (which is so very broad, and includes so many completely different, also ethnically, nations) doesn't also seem right. And what about people, in whose families, in earlier generations, like grandparents (or even earlier), were people from different race, ethnicity, nation - how they should be called? I think there shouldn't be such divisions of people.
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  3.  @Starstreak170  Why? In the USA (unlike in some other countries) there are so many races, nations, ethnicities so mixed up together in their origins and history. Even their concept of nation is not based on ethnicity, because it was created from people coming afterall from different parts of the world. And I think that Japanese is actually also not a separate race, but ethnicity or nationality?
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  4.  @MROEnglishLessons  But even when talking about ethnic Europeans, just to call all "white" is such an oversimplification and it's biased, there are so many nations, completely different, there too. I think that probably the least controversial and the easiest is the use of citizenship (because it's defined legally). And I also think that nation is not only about ethnicity, but about sharing the same culture, language, values and traditions (but also, the individual cases may be different, like with regard to nations that in the past had for instance a history of bigger emigration etc., they look at it also a bit different). Anyway, I think that the term Japanese - white would be also biased, from many reasons.
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