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     • Aya is half-Black and half-Japanese, and today she shares her experience growing up in Japan and her transition to life in America.
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     • Being Half-Japanese is Different When You’re Younger (Black in Japan) | MFiles [日本の字幕]
       Channel:- The Black Experience Japan
       Date Published:- 2021-January-25th
       Date Added:- 2021-October-31st
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Melanated Files ( The Black Experience Japan )

Being Half-Japanese is Different When You’re Younger (Black in Japan) | MFiles [日本の字幕]

1. Growing up in Japan
   • Earned – How to use what people consider insecurities, to become your strength
     • People Sayings and Thoughts
       • You do not look like a typical Japanese Person
       • You are really good at English
     • Use That
       • Use that to start an initiative on diversity
       • Use what you think are insecurities into your strength
     • Perceptive
       • I thrive better in America because I think I can put forth my skillsets better in America
       • That does not mean I can’t go back to Japan 5 years from now and help to globalize businesses
2. Younger
   • When younger
     • You want to fit in
     • Why is my skin darker?
3. Tell my younger self
   • Trust my differences
   • Trust my difference will turn into my strength
   • I really wish I knew that when I was a child
   • If I knew that, I would not have suffered as much as I suffered
   • And, I will not have internalized it as much as I internalized it
4. Suffered Internally or Externally
   • Internally
     • I internalized every stare
     • Every slight
     • Every Comment
   • Externally
     • People will say mean things
     • People will say mean things about me to my mum
   • Isolated
     • Things will happen that will make you feel isolated
     • It will make you feel you do not belong
     • If you know those exact things will turn into your strengths, if you allow them, then I will not have worried about them, as much as I worried about them
5. Lessons of an Hafu
   • Be more confident
   • Change your environment
   • If you do not like where you are at
     • Ask yourself why you don’t like where you are at
     • Get a piece of paper
     • Write down why you don’t like it
     • Read it
     • And, then change your environment
   • The Hafus that live in Japan
     • It is tricky for the Hafus that live in Japan
     • Especially, the Hafus that only speak Japanese
     • They feel fully Japanese
     • But, they do not feel like they are treated fully Japanese
     • No matter how much they are trying, they feel that they are not fully accepted
     • The day to day frustrations can really wear you down
     • On the other hand, if you know that there is a whole world out there that values a quality like yours, that values the difference, that sees it as a strength
     • As long as you know that, then you will not worry about the little things
     • My advice is to change your environment, and you will be alright
6. Likes
   • Like Most about Japan
     • Nature
     • Convenient City
     • Food
   • Like about America
     • Diversity
     • Not as blatant about Discrimination when it comes to
7. Advice about moving to Japanese
   • Research
   • Mental Illness
   • Community