China’s top diplomat has urged Japan and South Korea to foster a sense of “strategic autonomy” from the West and cooperate with Beijing to “revitalize Asia,” amid rising tensions between China and the two neighboring American allies.
  • aleph
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    • FUBAR@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You can be born in a western country as an East Asian and still also be called a foreigner and asked where are you really from

      • aleph
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        1 year ago

        Yes, you can.

        But it’s not as prevalent.

    • dodgypast@vlemmy.net
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      1 year ago

      My son is 50/50 Thai / English.

      We live in Thailand and he is accepted as 100% Thai.

      I admit that I’ll never be accepted as Thai but that comes with benefits as well as drawbacks.

      • aleph
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        1 year ago

        It’s generally easier on the kids in Thailand, I think, because mixed race couples are more widely accepted there than in Japan/China/Korea.

        I did a few years teaching ESL in Seoul and out of hundred kids, there were just two siblings that were mixed race - Korean mom and American Dad.

        Even though these two kids looked basically Korean (except their hair was dark brown instead of black) and spoke fluent Korean, I was shocked that some of the other kids in the class referred to them as 외국인 (foreigners), the exact same word they used to refer to me as white man.

      • aleph
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        1 year ago

        I never said they necessarily mean anything bad by it, though.

        Regardless of whether your status as a foreigner is perceived as being positive or negative, you’ll always be a foreigner.