Thank you

spstocker — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:08:13 -0700

Hi Momo:

Thank you for your article. It gives me a lot to think about.

I'm black and my girlfriend is Japanese (from Sapporo) and we are contemplating
marriage and children.

One of my girlfriend's questions is whether our children - if we have them - would be accepted
in Japan. (We'd likely raise our children in the US, but I hope we'd visit my girlfriends parents
in Japan during the summer.)

I hope you don't mind my asking a few questions.

Do you travel to Japan to visit relatives? If so, are you welcomed by your relatives there?

I think raising our children will present some challenges that my girlfriend and I haven't faced
in our lives, but I'd like to be as prepared as possible to help any children that we have be
confident and happy.

By the way, I really like your point about not being half. That makes sense to me.

So if we have children they would be both Japanese and African-American. Wholly both. I like that.

Stanley

Little Momo in the Big Apple - Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics

editor — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:43:32 -0700

Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics

By Simone Momoye Fujita

My mother is Japanese American, and my father is African American.

According to this equation, most would assert that this fact makes me exactly one-half Asian and one-half Black, right? I whole-heartedly disagree. When faced with an either/or dilemma, I will defiantly choose the both/and option. The sum of my parts, racially speaking, is greater than one. Let me explain:

DiscoverNikkei.org - Little Momo in the Big Apple - Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics - Comments

Thank you

Little Momo in the Big Apple - Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics

Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics