Hélène Nem-Kurisu | エレン•ネーム•クリス

Do you resent or embrace the term ‘hāfu’?

「ハーフ」という言葉は不快ですか、それとも受け入れられますか。

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Father	Cambidian
Mother	Japanese
Age	24
Born in	France
Lived in	France, Japan, Laos, the Netherlands
Speaks Japanese	⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪
Reading and Writing	⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪
Speaks	French, English, Japanese, Spanish

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父	カンボジア人
母	日本人
年齢	24歳
出生地	フランス
今まで住んだ国	フランス､日本､ラオス､オランダ
日本語会話のレベル	⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪
日本語読み書きのレベル	⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪
話せる言語	フランス語､英語､日本語､スペイン語

4 comments

miku katayama says:
May 25, 2020 at 18:26
I am japanese.I think that embrace the tarm “Hafu”.I love hafuface.i think it is envy.So,I want you to be confident!!!
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Marie says:
February 28, 2020 at 16:06
I embraced it living in France, but hated it when i was a child in Japan. Maybe because the term hafu really means half of something for japanese people when for french people it’s just a bit exotic..
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Yoshi E says:
January 25, 2020 at 11:18
It bothered me as a child, but not after I reached a certain age. It became an easy way to quickly explain who I was. It is just an expression, and nothing more than an expression used in Japan. As you know Japan is unique in the way being able to maintain homogeneity for thousands of years. It was natural to view us as being half rather than double.
幼少の頃は気になりましたが、ある年齢から全く気にならなくなりました。自分のことを説明するのに、非常に効率的な言葉となりました。ハーフという言葉は表現に過ぎず、表現以上の何ものでもありません。日本単一の人種を数千年にわたり維持できた独特の国です。このような背景の中、我々をダブルではなく、半分／ハーフと見てしまうのは、自然の事のように思えます。
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Ayumi says:
May 6, 2019 at 16:49
To me it sounds a bit negative since it kind of implies that you can never be fully part of any culture, wether it’s on the Japanese side or the other origin… Especially for those who don’t know any culture beside the Japanese one !
But it also depends on wether you see the glass half-full or half-empty… 🙂
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