Discuss "Why are there so many mixed-race children in Japan?" "Before this complex social issue, let's start with a woman at the Olympics.
Did everyone watch the final torch-lighting ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics? The ignition was sparked by a Japanese tennis player named Naomi Osaka.
Many people probably have a question, is this dark-skinned girl with black dirty pigtails really a Japanese?
Everyone's question is correct, she is a mixed race. His father was Haitian-American and his mother was Japanese. Usually our impressions of mixed races are very beautiful and distinctive. But if you don't blow it, you can't blow it, and naomi Osaka's "black pearl" has little to do with "pretty".
Let a mixed race represent Japan in the most important part of such a grand Olympic Games?
Don't be surprised, because there are really many mixed-race children in Japan. The fashion industry is probably the most concentrated area of Japanese mixed race, the proportion of mixed race Japanese stars can reach about 80%, and more than 20,000 Japanese mixed race children are born every year in the country.
Kuroki Akisa, Japanese-American mixed
Keiko Mizuhara is a Japanese mixed-race model
In Japan, mixed races are called "HAFU". The word comes from English and means "half". Japan's "black pearl" mixed-race culture has simply become a trend. What is the reason behind this? Xiao Yu will talk to you about this issue together.
The first reason is Japan's open "immigration policy."
You may not have thought that, globally, Japan ranks second among the most popular immigrant countries. This is not a policy that exists now, but has been established since ancient times: the aborigines of the Japanese archipelago were Rope literati, and later assimilated the Watanabe people to form today's Japanese. So in fact, the birth of the Yamato nation is closely related to immigration. Japan, which historically will be a country of immigrants, is not very repulsive to immigrants.
Yasuke, a black samurai in Japanese history, and a samurai under Oda Nobunaga
What about attitudes towards "blacks"? In the Sengoku period, the overlord Oda Nobunaga even had some mercenaries of African descent under his hands, who fought bravely and made many achievements for the Oda army, and the descendants of these people also settled in Japan.
The black samurai "Yasuke" in the game
In modern society, Japanese people even think of "black" as beauty, and there are many black pearl beauties such as Namie Amuro in the trend of the modern era.
Second, let's talk about sports reasons.
Japan has come up with many ways to quickly improve the overall strength of Japanese sports, the most effective of which are naturalized players and improved genes. Japan has encouraged Japanese women to marry and have children with black athletes through birth subsidies. Japanese planning forward - Hachimura, this person is a typical mixed-race child, the mother is Japanese, the father is from Africa, this person in the NBA mixed up, has become a flag of Japanese basketball.
Therefore, the proportion of black mixed races in the Japanese national team is getting higher and higher, and the overall strength of Japanese sports has also risen sharply!
Hachimura and Naomi Osaka, two African-Japanese mixed-race children
Third, the birth of the black pearl hybrid is related to the Japanese aesthetic concept.
In Japan, people's sense of superiority and inferiority to the West is wonderfully intertwined, especially in Tanizaki's time. At that time, the recession in the West was not as pronounced as it is today. In "Foolish Love", the protagonist once said that if he had money and had the opportunity, he would like to marry a Western woman, but also frankly said: "But even if I have money, I have no confidence in my appearance; I am short, dark, and have a mouth full of teeth." So he retreated to the second place and married a Japanese wife who looked like a Westerner.
Namie Amuro, a Japanese mixed-race child
Aesthetic preferences for the West are still prevalent in modern Japan. Japan aspires to be, or at least looks like, a modern country. At that time, modern style meant Westernization, whether it was aesthetic consciousness or political economy.
What do you think is the reason for the prevalence of black pearl hybrids in Japan?
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