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Irenicus · 2014-05-30, 02:36

I get the feeling they sort of interpreted "dominant" ethnicity based on the father side, so an offspring of a Japanese father x foreign mother is a Japanese with exotic brushes, while the other way around is actually an exotic foreigner who has some Japanese ties.

So it's like, "how come you can speak English/French/Sindarin so well?" "Well, my mom's elvish," vs. "wow, your Japanese is good!" "Thanks, my mom is Japanese, so..."

*Speaking only for anime/fiction. No idea how halfs are interpreted socially in reality.

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Irenicus Le fou, c'est moi Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA Age: 34	I get the feeling they sort of interpreted "dominant" ethnicity based on the father side, so an offspring of a Japanese father x foreign mother is a Japanese with exotic brushes, while the other way around is actually an exotic foreigner who has some Japanese ties. So it's like, "how come you can speak English/French/Sindarin so well?" "Well, my mom's elvish," vs. "wow, your Japanese is good!" "Thanks, my mom is Japanese, so..." *Speaking only for anime/fiction. No idea how halfs are interpreted socially in reality.