Tragic Mulatto: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Skip Beat!]]'' has recently officially brokenwent into this with chapter 184, which opens with a flashback to young {{spoiler|Hizuri Kuon, later known as Tsuruga Ren}} being told even God must find his existence problematic, being a Japanese, Russian, and 'American' cross, and then ramps it up to 'damned unfamiliar' and then'' 'not even human'''. Which, given he spent almost his entire childhood ''in America'' probably says more about the issues the Japanese have with the concept of ''minzoku'' than anything else.<ref>Among other things, they are so attached to the idea of being a nation with only one race-group and therefore no racism problems that they didn't acknowledge the existence of the Ainu until they'd colonized them to the edge of extinction, Okinawans are never going to be recognized as ethnically distinct despite the stereotype of dark skin and the fact that the islands have their own traditional language, even if these days they mostly speak Japananese...the Korean minority also had their citizenship revoked back in '45, so they don't count.</ref>