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thank you for writing this. i'm 1/2 korean & 1/2 japanese. my korean grandparents grew up under japanese occupation & speak both langs. their english & my korean lang skills aren't great, so they often speak to me in japanese. i'm still wrestling w/ that.
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Thank you so much for writing this, Alex!
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My grandmother would come and visit us in Tokyo, and as a seven year old I was always so confused why she could read signage and labels but refused to speak in Japanese. Later, she told us how hard it was to see my and my siblings learn Japanese and not Korean.
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Greatful to have conversations with her in English, but I often forget we have a second shared language that, for many reasons, is not one we use with each other. Thank you for this essay and writing always
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That last paragraph really resonated with me. Thank you for writing this.
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Also, every time I watch anime, I am reminded that so many words I thought were Korean are actually Japanese in origin.
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A few weeks ago, I had to fill out some paperwork for my stepfather's mother, and it asked for her country of birth. What should the United States consider the birth country of a woman born in the 1920s in present day Wonsan? Japan? North Korea? South Korea? It lives with them.
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My dad simply filled in "Korea".
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I loved this very much. Thank you - It reminded me of a quote from an elderly Sino-Japanese war veteran (from Lung Yingtai's book on 1949 that I'm currently translating): "What do I think of the 'post-war period'? I'm still waiting for the post war."
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Reminds me in turn of the famous Gandhi quote. "What do you think of Western Civilization?" "(pauses to think) ... I think it would be a good idea."
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