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Public views on marriage with non-Caucasian (Japanese)
(Japanese) Even after I came to America I was asked the question. Issei old men and women, all of them were really nice people, but they would say, “You are such a nice girl.” They thought I was a kid. When I went to the Japan Town in San Francisco for shopping where I could buy some Japanese food, they would ask me where I came from. So I would respond, “I’m not a kid. I already have two kids of my own.” They would be surprised. As we talk more, they would ask, “Why in the world did you marry a black man?”
Fecha: September 17, 2014
Zona: California, US
Entrevista: Izumi Tanaka
País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum
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