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I Live In Japan
Akima:
--- Quote from: RuffGruff on 15 May 2016, 23:40 ---As for adapting? It's definitely one of those cultures that you will always be appreciated for emulating, but your efforts will never be accepted for doing so.
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In my experience this is true everywhere if you are a member of a visibly different ethnic group from the majority. I am an Australian of Chinese descent, and we are certainly not fully accepted as Australian, and from what I have observed this is true of people like me in the USA too. The "melting pot" is always pretty much an assimilationist one-way street of expecting minorities to adopt the ways of the majority, but no matter how hard you try, you'll always have your nationality hyphenated, and never quite be regarded as the "real thing".
Detachable Felix:
Honestly Akima you're far more a 'real' Aussie than the sort of people who would tell you you weren't.
RuffGruff:
--- Quote from: Akima on 16 May 2016, 05:06 ---
--- Quote from: RuffGruff on 15 May 2016, 23:40 ---As for adapting? It's definitely one of those cultures that you will always be appreciated for emulating, but your efforts will never be accepted for doing so.
--- End quote ---
In my experience this is true everywhere if you are a member of a visibly different ethnic group from the majority. I am an Australian of Chinese descent, and we are certainly not fully accepted as Australian, and from what I have observed this is true of people like me in the USA too. The "melting pot" is always pretty much an assimilationist one-way street of expecting minorities to adopt the ways of the majority, but no matter how hard you try, you'll always have your nationality hyphenated, and never quite be regarded as the "real thing".
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At least you get hyphenated. You don't get that in Japan.
mustang6172:
--- Quote from: Detachable Felix on 16 May 2016, 06:09 ---Honestly Akima you're far more a 'real' Aussie than the sort of people who would tell you you weren't.
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As Australians go, Akima seems pretty real, but I've yet to hear her pontificate about the virtues of Vegemite.
Detachable Felix:
We don't all wrestle crocodiles and eat Vegemite, mustang. Although it is high in Vitamin B and highly nutritional! :mrgreen:
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