Looking Inside (Spanish)

The Nikkei Integration into society (Spanish) Is non-integration due to the distrust because of what happened in the Second World War? (Spanish) Looking Inside (Spanish) I’m a Japanese, Peruvian… who am I? (Spanish) Being a Nikkei today (Spanish) Nikkei identity (Spanish) Does a Nikkei culture exist? (Spanish) Necessary apologies (Spanish) Japanese immigration with an Okinawan face (Spanish) The Okinawan idiosyncrasies (Spanish) Ambassador of Good Will (Spanish) Ambassador’s job (Spanish) Histories of immigrants (Spanish) The myth of the sacrifice of immigrants (Spanish) Paisaje terrestre [Terrestrial landscape] (Spanish) Feminist, ecologist, Buddhist… activist (Spanish) The poet is going to hibernate (Spanish)

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(Spanish) Look, when you ask a Jewish person why they always marry within their culture, they answer that it’s because of anti-Zionism, because of an anti-Judaism notion, and we can’t say the same. I can’t… I have 31 nephews and 31 nieces, and most of them have married between Nikkei people. And if you ask them, they’re not going to say it’s because of an anti-Japanese notion. They’ll say no, because it’s the way it is. Our cultural education is so strong that even the non-cultural, which is desire and attraction, turns into something cultural. That is to say you don’t feel a sexual appetite for someone who is not from your same race. You may feel it but you censure it.

Date: February 26, 2008
Location: Lima, Peru
Interviewer: Harumi Nako
Contributed by: Asociación Peruano Japonesa (APJ)

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