Anna Sayuri Miyahira | あんなみやひら

“In what way is it different to share your emotions with your Japanese and non-Japanese parent?”

自分の気持ちを親に伝える際に、日本人の親と外国人の親に対してとで、伝え方はどう違いますか。

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About Anna Sayuri:

Father	Japanese
Mother	Dutch
Age	26
Born in	the Netherlands
Lived in	the Netherlands, Spain, Japan
Speaks Japanese	⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪
Reading and Writing	⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪
Speaks	Dutch, English, Spanish, Japanese

4 comments

Emi Arimoto says:
October 26, 2017 at 14:12
This is a very interesting question. Both of my parents are very affectionate, but in different ways. My mother is Costa Rican and my father obviously Japanese. My mother hugs and kisses me a lot and also say caring things to me, but my father doesn’t do that. However, he expresses his affection by his actions (I didn’t live with him because of his work, but each time I had school vacation, he went to Costa Rica to be with my brother and me) and also by the conversations that we hold and all the support he have been giving me. It is really different the way both of my parents show me their affection. I think that the fact that my father is Japanese and well, obviously his personality influence his way of acting.
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Ken Hiroshi says:
November 8, 2016 at 13:41
In regards to my Japanese family, ever since I was a child first visiting them, I have always made sure I hug them hello and goodbye when I first see them and when I finally leave Japan. During my stays in Japan we revert to the more traditional Japanese greetings of bowing and language.
I’m closer to 40 now and all of my Aunts, Uncles, and cousins are used to this first greeting.
Here in America, we aren’t in contact with my Caucasian side of the family, for about 30 years now. I think this is due to the way my father is, personality wise.
Actually in my family its my Japanese mother that shows us more of the physical type of love and my Caucasian father is a bit more distant.
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Ken says:
October 9, 2016 at 01:07
Good question. They have different receptors of emotions and the way they think, so I speak in a way they can understand.
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fri says:
September 20, 2016 at 16:11
No real difference with my parents, but my Canadian relatives there’s a lot of kissing and hugging, with my Japanese relatives we show our closeness through the language that we use – speaking in dialect, not using formal speech. I think the use of spoken language like that is just as much a sign of closeness as physical intimacy.
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