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So I wanna ask brother,
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do you refer yourself as American,
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Mexican, American, Mexican American?
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Me too, Mexican American.
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But I get told that I do not look Mexican like if
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people were to be like,
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oh wow. Like I speak Spanish?
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Oh wow. I thought you were just white and I'm just
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Did you ever talk shit in front of you?
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Like in Spanish? No,
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not that I've heard of actually.
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No, no, actually I have a story for you that
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happened recently. Carolina Shino was just five years old when her
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family immigrated to Japan.
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She is a TN Ukrainian and that is her.
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And so she grew up in Japan,
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her friends and classmates were Japanese,
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you know, and you know,
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she, she's very well into the culture and like many of
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you know, our immigrant parents,
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how they moved into the US and,
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and when they were young and,
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and ourselves too, even she entered Japan's National Beauty Competition
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and she won and there was controversy because they were questioning
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she doesn't look Japanese.
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How can she win Japan's National Beauty Competition there was just backlash
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and then they come to find.
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So the haters dug up some dirt about her about an affair
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that ultimately led to her giving up her crown earlier this week
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So I think the fact that she did not look Japanese
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and then they wanted to go in even deeper and they dug
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up that and it's just a whole controversy.
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I mean, it sounds like the kind of thing.
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But if she's, if the rules didn't state that she had
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to be specifically Japanese,
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it's like in maybe go back to the rule of that's how
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you really feel about that.
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luckily for us to help us understand the reality,
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we're actually joined by Marcela who is also known as Mexican
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but Japanese. So we're gonna talk to Marcela about this
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Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for having me.
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Thank you for joining.
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We wanted to ask you your opinion on this.
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So like does this reaction to Miss Japan's crowning come as a
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surprise to you? I mean,
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like you mentioned, you know,
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she grew up in Japan,
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it seems like she grew up there from a very young age
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her whole life, her culture,
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her language is Japanese.
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So it makes me think about myself,
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you know, I am half Japanese,
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And if I were to be in that position,
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where I maybe had the opportunity to represent Mexico.
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But would I not be accepted?
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Maybe to be the face of Mexico?
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Because I am half Japanese,
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even though I was born in Mexico,
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even though Mexico is,
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I mean, Spanish is my first language.
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My entire family lives in Mexico.
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And I think that would make me really sad because I
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am very Mexican and I've seen your content.
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You're very much Mexican,
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very much Japanese. You're both in one.
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How is it when you go to Mexico and when you go
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to Japan, how's experience?
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I was born in Mexico,
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So Mexico for me is home.
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I've only been to Japan once,
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maybe five or seven years ago and we went to me and
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my sisters took my mom to meet her Japanese side of the
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family and it was wonderful.
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I had a beautiful time,
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but I am still new to my Japanese culture.
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It's a part of me that I'm still exploring that I'm still
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learning. But I mean,
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Mexico is just, is home for me.
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And I guess, I mean,
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I've heard that you have a growing family.
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So congrats on that.
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I know you actually have a little Mexicano baby on the way
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coming next month. So I'm excited to.
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yeah, I wanted to see like,
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do you plan on teaching your Children all three languages or?
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No. Absolutely. So I don't speak Japanese.
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So I only speak Spanish and English.
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And it's really, really,
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really important for me,
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for my daughter to speak Spanish.
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I mean, I want my daughter to get the full experience
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even though we live in the US and to be able to
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communicate even with the rest of my family.
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Right. A lot of them don't speak English.
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So I am speaking to her in Spanish.
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My husband speaks to her in English and we're going to do
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our best to keep it up and for her to learn both
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Well, thank you so much,
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Marcela. We really appreciate you joining us and congrats again on
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your little blessing. And Tambien,
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where can people find you on social media?
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Oh, yeah, I am at Mexican but Japanese and you
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But thank you so much again for your time and we'll talk
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soon. Have a good one.
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Thank you. Thank you for coming.
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