It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks.
In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.
The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.'
The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
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