Miss Japan 2016 and Being "Hafu"
Recently 22 year old Priyanka Yoshikawa won the title of Miss Japan 2016. Her title win has been in the news quite a bit as her father is Indian, so she is considered "hafu" or half Japanese. Critics complain that a "pure" Japanese should have won. This follows last year's Miss Universe pageant winner who was the first mixed-race person to win a major pageant in Japan. Only 3% of babies born in Japan every year are biracial.
A few years ago, we went to the screening of a film called Hafu, which illustrated the difficulties and prejudice biracial Japanese face. If you are interested you can find clips of it on YouTube.
4 comments:
Sounds pretty similar to the 2014 Miss America, who was of Indian descent:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/a-lot-of-people-are-very-upset-that-an-indian-american-woman
Hi Pamela she is very beautiful,wow it all very interesting and shouldnt make any difference if she is "hafu" but sadly these things do exist xx
This is a VERY interesting post. We in the US as so used to disdain shown certain mixed marriages, while others are not given a second thought. But it appears the Japanese disdain ANY mix. Very interesting and I wonder why. Perhaps I'll be spending time on Google today.
Hope you are feeling up to snuff!
xx, Carol
Interesting how anti mixing race the Japanese people are. A friend here married a Japanese woman and her parents never accepted him into the family. They accepted but were not happy with the two children. Sad isn't it.
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