Susan S. Sakayori
Susan (Susie) S. Sakayori é uma nipo-americana de terceira geração e residente de longa data no Japão. No ano passado ela teve a oportunidade de ser guia turística voluntária no Museu Nacional Japonês Americano – um ano que ela nunca esquecerá. Atualmente ela leciona no Japão na Ritsumeikan High School e na Ryukoku University.
Atualizado em maio de 2009
Stories from This Author
What am I? Who am I? – Part 3 of 3
24 de Junho 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 Junho 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 Maio 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!” …
