Japanese American Identity & Self-Image | Asian American Poll

JAPANESE AMERICAN IDENTITY & SELF-IMAGE
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:14:10 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

In relating with other Asian American groups, Japanese Americans most exhibit which of the following attitudes?
More Americanized than thou | 51%
More rooted in ancestral heritage | 0%
More anxious to be low key | 49%
More embracing of other AA | 0%

Which of the following has the most impact on the Japanese American identity?
Smallest percentage of recent immigrants | 36%
World War II internment | 51%
Japan's economic success | 6%
Smaller population than other AA groups | 7%

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Iroha,you are a joke!
I will overlook your poor English since its not your native tougue.
Where should I begin? You claim the Chinese like the Japanese?? This is so absurd, is this why the Chinese government is demandingyour government ban those history books? Your government is infamous for telling lies!
Chinese in Japan are treated very poorly in Japan, same as Coreans. You Japs should be thanking us since much of your culture have been derived from ours.
Only reason why some crazy people wnat to immigrate to Japan is purely economical. Japan is the wealthiest country in Asia since you stole everything from rest of Asia. Majority of Coreans living in Japanhave been there forcenturies, effectively they are Japanese but you people still deny them Japanse citizenship, why is that? Their ancestors didn't ask to go to japan, they were kipnapped by your savage people, you owe much of your knowledge of pottery and art to those Coreans you kidnapped.
But of course, you don't know anything about that do you? You're a typical ignorant Japanese who doesn't knowanything about your culture besides the garbage your government feeds you, right?
Why do you think North and South Corea is divided? Tell me genius.
I personally don't have any ill feelingtoward Japanesein general, just ignorant ones like you who keep talking out of your ass. OH, by the way I don't only associate with CoreanAmericans, I have many friends from all over the world. Matter of fact my girlfriend is Italian so your assumptions are wrong again my little friend.
Please write back, I need a good laugh:)

Sean Monday, August 27, 2001 at 22:44:14 (PDT)

"Hen ken" is terrible. I think more try to understand about other countries' culture. Get along together is better. Understand each other and try to speak different cultures people. I think Japanese has a lot of prejudiec, so then,Japanese had better open our minds. But I'm not afraid to be different.
CAPPY bravelove@ezweb.ne.jp Saturday, August 25, 2001 at 01:28:56 (PDT)

I will attack Sean Corean American: I am ready for you!
1) You can not call me ignorant, of course you are in America, right? Do you really know about Koreans in Japan? I said I'm in Japan, so I was talking about Koreans in Japan. Person like you most of Koreans think you are ALWAYS right and call people ignorant and doing wrong things against people in this world.
2) The rest of Asia doesn't dislike us, ONLY YOUR type of Koreans! Look at Chinese, we also did bad things to them in our history; example: the big massacre in Peking. But they are very friendly and Chinese people in Japan, they have tried to do their business in the Japanese way when they are in Japan.They do as Japanese do. They have RESPECT.
3) IF the rest of Asia dislike us Japanese, then why do they migrate to our country? Japanese don't migrate to other country the way Koreans do. Think about that. Everybody loves to come to Japan (even Koreans) but they hate Korea so they never go there. Even Korean people (north and South) want to get out! You can shut up now forever.
4)Now let me tell you who is ignorant:
People like Koreans in America. Who do you associate with? I think you can go to a school and stay with only "yellow" group. You never make friends with people of other race and when your group become strong, you threaten other people.
5)North and South Korea, how do you explain? I do know what your people are doing in Korea. Don't tell me North korean is a different people from different country than South Korea. They are SAME. All of ya. You are KILLING EACH OTHER. Still more, you are not satisfied about killing each other in your own country, you are doing the same thing in Japan! 2 of your people got killed in Japan by your people!

Last, Japanese never invited Koreans to come to Japan. YOU might be the ignorant one more than people in Korea.
You don't have to come to Japan. It's better if you go back to Korea and learn more truth about there.You are NOTHING for me so don't ever put my name in your example again.
I will GET YOU everytime.

PROUD JAPANESE
Iroha Friday, August 24, 2001 at 19:16:33 (PDT)

To christy and JJJ

You should go to Kyoto and Nara city.
Look what Koreans have done to civilize your culture and your people. Maybe you and your Japanese Americans would have better understanding of Koreans and Korean Americans.

by Proud Korean
Giant Korea Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 21:14:19 (PDT)

Christy
For the last time, very few Korean Americans have ANY negative feelingtoward JAPANESE AMERICANS, get it???
Majority of Coreans who dislike Japanese are those ignorant ones from JAPAN, who doesn't know shit about her history. Iroha, is the PERFECT example of ignorance, just read his over.
Soooo naive, its too funny.
japanese from japan, you people have to be the most ignorant in this world,did you ever stop and ask yourselves why the rest of asia dislike you???
hmmmmmmm???
Sean, Corean American Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 17:52:14 (PDT)

So what Robert E Lee??
Koreans are rude. And Japanese don't like rude people and your food stinks like garlic.
Nobody cares to know about Korean American history so you Shut the Hell up!!!!
Go write that in your Korean forum and preach how great Koreans are. Preach how great Taekwondo is. Preach how great Hyundai cars are etc. etc.
If you Koreans have nothing nice to say about the Japanese don't waste your time please. :P

JJJ Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 02:48:47 (PDT)

Iroha:

How do you expect Koreans to like Japanese if you guys used our people as lab-rat, comfort women, and completely exploited us? Or lets just say Koreans are treated fairly with tiny bit of respect in your country first place. Instead you guys treat Koreans like sub-human species, not even granting them Japanese citizenship just because they have Korean ancestary, even though they are culturally Japanese. You also said many f***ed up things have happened to you, but I bet its not as f***ed up as what you did to us. Why did we go to Japan? You think we wanted to? Its cuz you guys f***ed us over so much that they decided to work in Japan, only to find out to be treated like shit. Or It wasnt even their willingness to reside there, they were forced to work there. Why do we have strong emotions? Because we are a small country who got ran over by Chinese from the North and you guys from the East throughout our history. We might be overly emotional at times but at least we are honest and mostly not two-faced like you guys. And what kind of ignorant and childish question to ask why Koreans went to America if we don't like black people? You actually think all we were thinking about was dealing with black people when we immigrated? You are generalzing that all koreans are liquor store owners. Are we the only people who have trouble with blacks? Why do we have North and South Korea? Its not cuz we dont want to be together, but it was more of US and UssR's idea to decide our destiny. I dont have a problem you not wanting to deal with Koreans, maybe you really have some bad experiences. Its just your igonrant questions that bothers me. Typical Japanese living in Japan... Dood, you Japanese in Japan are so ignorant when it comes down understanding Korea and Koreans. Koreans can be too emotional and blunt, but Japanese are too ignorant about their history and can be scandalous and back-stabbing. You guys are full of contradiction. I personally detest what you guys have done to Korea but do repect some aspects of Japan. I dont want to deal with Japanese Fob like you anyway. Japanese Americans are cool though.

P.S: NO offense to cool Japanese people out there, I get along with all my Asian bro.

KM Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 01:22:49 (PDT)

All of you Koreans should take a look at the Japanese American National Museum in LA. Then maybe you would respect our history in America and realize what we have had to put up with. I am very proud to be Japanese
Christy Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 22:50:33 (PDT)

The person who saved Japanese Americans ass in Europe was actually Korean American Captain. He saved the troops being ambushed by German Nazi soilders in France!!! For all the dipshits who don't know JackShit about Korean American History. SHut the Hell UP!!

Miss Universe (Brook Lee)
she is Korean/Hawaiian American.
from Hawaii

Jhoon RHee (Taekwondo Godfather)
Taekwondo has more schools in USA
than Karate schools in USA.

MTV famous music director is Korean American. Simply, there are more Koreans living in United States than Japanese Americans and Japanese Nationals combined!!

from General Robert E. Lee.
KKK Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 02:29:45 (PDT)

Yo,

I have 2 elder uncles who did fight in WWII. They did not fight as a battalion, because they got integrated. My uncles fought with much bravery and courage as any other U.S. soldier did on the Pacific front of that war. Please do not dishonor the many Chinese-Americans who did participate. May they rest in peace.
3rd Generation Chinese-American Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 01:17:53 (PDT)

I am Japanese living in Japan, I don't know about Koreans living in America, if I talk about Koreans in Japan, I can never deal with them. I didn't have good image for them from long time ago but I had to deal with them at my job. But many f***tup things happened. Korean people in Japan, they are so BAD. They don't have liquor store in Japan like America, but they don't like Japanese. We don't have many kinds of people like USA, they just don't like Japanese. They don't like Japanese, so I don't know why they came to Japan. They don't like Black people, so I don't know why they went to America. They don't even like each other, so they have a North and a South Korea. They have strong emotions. They always act like they want to have a problem with people. I don't know about Koreans in Korea, but I already decided not to deal with ANY Koreans anymore. I don't bother Koreans, so don't bother me.
Iroha Tuesday, August 21, 2001 at 19:42:55 (PDT)

Koreans brought grocery stores into the inner city????!!! WTF??!!! Selling Liquor to Latino and Black people? WOW, you Koreans really did a lot for the world. Maybe you can bring more liquor stores or bars into the inner city.
How revolutionary!!!!!!!
Keep your Korean business in the inner city and away from the Japanese please.
Japanese were the enemy and always will be so watch your back.

Another whacked Korean writing in here!
Take your stupiD KP shit elsewhere!!!!!
JP Monday, August 20, 2001 at 23:36:10 (PDT)

Rober E Lee,

Tell me any Asian American ethnicity who actually fought in WWII in both fronts. I don't remember any Chinese-American battalion fighting in WWII. Korean-American didn't even exist during WWII, because Korea didn't exist until after 1945 during modern era. Now tell me why did Japanese-American fought in WWII even they were in the camps? I'm sure if you were in their shoes you wouldn't have guts to fight in a war that you know your people may have been distrusted. Yet JA batallion freed Auswich Hebrew concentration camp with heavy casulaties. I dare you to put your life on line to choose loyalties while you are in the camp. It's easy to sit in front of a computer and make frivlous comments when you were not the one sent to the camp yet get conscripted.
Yo Monday, August 20, 2001 at 19:20:05 (PDT)

200 years? It was Chinese and Irish immigrants connected railroads between West and East coast of United States. It was Korean Americans who revolutionized grocery stores busineesess in inner city United States. What did Japanese Americans do? The only thing I can remember is being the enemy!
when you take an American citizenship test they ask you questions such as "Who were United States enemy during W.W.II" Hey, I have to admit Japan is the answer. Japanese Americans were in internment camp in the country they were born!!! Hey!! like American government really cares if you were living in this land for 200 years!!

L.A kp
rober e lee Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 21:26:56 (PDT)

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