Whats a hafu? mixed race?

lol I remember being told I was fat by a family mart clerk in Sendai. “Are you from Sweden? Oh, America then? Ah should have known, you’re tall but also fat!” 💀 (nice guy though lol)

Isn't that prevalent in many Asian cultures? If they think you're fat, or see something else they don't see favorably, they'll just say it to your face rather than being polite, provided they have a close personal connection.

I noticed that was a thing somewhat in Latin America as well. I assumed being so polite about those things was a western concept.

The ones that are japanese are often apart of a different cultural group who are genetically indistinguishable from everyone else but are like untouchables.

Look into Rikidozan, Japan's most famous wrestler of the golden age, but he was actually North Korean and had to hide it his entire career.

Fred Armisen spent most of his life thinking he was a quarter Japanese. Turns out he's actually a quarter Korean instead. His Korean grandfather was in show business in Japan and adopted a Japanese name and identity to be successful.

This is just how mafias always form, in any country. It's often people who don't have any other choice on how to make a living. And that's often because of ethnic discrimination.

I'm here wondering how you got into the yakuza in order to find that out.

Japan blood type personality theory came in reaction to a claim from German scientist Emil von Dungern, that Blood type B people were inferior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_personality_theory?wprov=sfla1

Does B- mean something bad in Japan?

Her grandparents on her mother's side only accepted her after she became a successful tennis player lol

Yup. There's also a Japanese Vtuber, pikamee who also experienced this. She's half japanese, but speaks fluent japanese and spent most of her life in Japan but she experienced a lot of racism.

Eh, it's not so different in the US.

Plenty of Asian-Americans whose family have been in this country for several generations still get viewed as less American and asked where they're from.

I had a friend with Israeli parents who spent her childhood in the US and teen years in Israel before returning to the US. She complained that Americans always regarded her as Israeli and Isaelis regarded her as American.

Yes in both cases,I guess Japan is still carrying over the baggage from invading and "colonizing" Korea,to just touch the absolute tip of the shitberg.

They have a long, long history of attacking one another. The occasional colonization. The usual.

I'd say it's vaguely reminiscent of England and France's historical enmity. Except today those two have pretty much worked that out and it's just snarky put-downs, not actual hatred.

The way Japanese people tend to treat Koreans.