Chapter 12: About the Japanese Accent
Ever since I was in school, I’ve heard that “Japanese-Brazilians are bad at Portuguese”. Poor writing was a given…it was hard to understand what they said…they had strange pronunciation…bottom line, it sounded like Japanese.
Because of that, there were children who unfortunately stopped going to school.
Back then, when you walked into a store, it wasn’t uncommon for the clerk to greet you by pretending to speak with a Japanese accent.
Even at college, I could quickly sense that kind of prejudice from little things. One day, here’s what a Japanese-Brazilian girl who was specializing in German told me as …