スーザン・S・サカヨリ
(Susan S. Sakayori)
スーザン（スージー）S.サカヨリさんは日系アメリカ人3世で、長年日本に住んでいます。昨年、彼女は日系人博物館でボランティアツアーガイドを務める機会に恵まれました。それは彼女にとって忘れられない一年でした。彼女は現在、日本の立命館高校と龍谷大学で教鞭を執っています。
2009年5月更新
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What am I? Who am I? – Part 3 of 3
2009年6月24日 • スーザン・S・サカヨリ
>> Part 2However, life started to change when my children were approaching their teens. I was confronted with aspects of their education and the school system that frightened me and forced me to see the danger of blindly following the crowd and not questioning what I didn’t understand. The older my children became, the more I questioned what I was seeing in and outside the classroom, but I was always at a loss as to what to do. A teacher …
What am I? Who am I? – Part 2 of 3
2009年6月10日 • スーザン・S・サカヨリ
Part 1 >>I had been looking forward to being married and living happily ever after. I had hoped that I would be treated as an equal, and perhaps be accepted as a woman without the hyphenated Japanese-American attached to it. Before long, I realized that the utopia that I had been dreaming of for so many years was not to be. Granted, I could walk down the streets of Japan and be somewhat invisible to the other pedestrians, which gave …
What am I? Who am I? – Part 1 of 3
2009年5月21日 • スーザン・S・サカヨリ
Imagine this – a shy, quiet little girl with black hair in a school playground surrounded by other little boys and girls of all shapes and sizes. Everyone is talking and laughing and enjoying what they do best – being kids. Then, suddenly without warning someone yells out, “Ching, chong, Chinaman.” A dead silence. Slowly, children turn towards the shy, quiet little girl with black hair. The little girl is too shy and too frightened to reply, “I’m not Chinese!” …
