Susan S. Sakayori
Susan (Susie) S. Sakayori es una japonesa estadounidense de tercera generación y residente en Japón desde hace mucho tiempo. El año pasado tuvo la oportunidad de ser guía turística voluntaria en el Museo Nacional Japonés Americano, un año que nunca olvidará. Actualmente enseña en Japón en la escuela secundaria Ritsumeikan y la Universidad Ryukoku.
Actualizado en mayo de 2009
Historias de Este Autor
What am I? Who am I? – Part 3 of 3
24 de junio de 2009 • Susan S. Sakayori
>> 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
10 de junio de 2009 • Susan S. Sakayori
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
21 de mayo de 2009 • Susan S. Sakayori
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!” …
