American & biker wannabe wins Miss Universe Japan 2015

[Samurai_Jerk]

She's laying it on thick.

Multiracial Miss Universe Japan hopes to change homeland’s thinking on identity

Ariana Miyamoto hadn’t planned to enter a Japanese beauty contest because she figured her multiracial origins meant she couldn’t win. Then a close multiracial friend committed suicide.

So Miyamoto, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an African-American man, whose bronze skin and height of 173 cm are unusual in Japan, where she was born and raised, took part in the pageant and won, becoming Miss Universe Japan.

“I thought that, for my friend’s sake, if there was something I could do to change Japan, I should,” Miyamoto, 20, a dual Japanese and U.S. national, said in perfect Japanese. “He always felt unaccepted by Japanese . . . and that made him unable to accept himself.”

[kurogane]

If I have to read "in perfect Japanese" once more there's going to be Poopy Time Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

The irony is that reads way more presumptuously racist in English than it accomplishes any of the lofty Debito Dogma it is intended to shoehorn in. WTF did they think she was going to speak? It reminds me of flatlanders new to Vancouver commenting on how many Orientals speak such nice English here. Nice comment by that academic interviewed, though. Refreshing. Yes, it is. And now it's approaching the nauseous.

BTW, she does look mildly cartoonish, but I think that's mostly makeup, hair and the Meat Parade smile she always wears.

[matsuki]

a close multiracial friend committed suicide

...but but but racism isn't a problem in Japan?

[legion]

“My sense is there is a growing shift among younger generations to accept that people with all faces can speak Japanese and function successfully in Japanese society,” he said. “Whether that will translate into all sorts of appearances being accepted as Japanese remains to be seen.”

"Greg Dvorak, a researcher in Asian and Pacific culture and history at Hitotsubashi University"

Fuck me, I sense a disturbance in the WA grasshopper

Obviously hard research is for suckers at Gaijin University, all you need is to "sense"

[Coligny]

She's laying it on thick.

Ever tried to explain something to the average jap (*) ? Thick is the new thin...

Remember it took two fucking nuke for them to get the message that the party was over and they lost it...


(*) rice paddy monkey ? Tetrahedron monkey ? Open to negociation for better derogatory term...

[kurogane]

East Asian French???

[Coligny]

I asked for derogatory, not honorific.

Plus, hystorectomically speaking that would be the Vietnamese...

[kurogane]

Booya, mon tomo

[Samurai_Jerk]

I asked for derogatory, not honorific.

Plus, hystorectomically speaking that would be the Vietnamese...

Or the Khmer Rouge.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Just when you thought everyone had forgotten .... Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution

[kurogane]

I think she's jumping the shark. I don't know if that sort of award baiting works at meat contests but I know I now consider her at least as vapid and annoying as any other Meat Market contestant I have ever seen, which is a shame. Is the final round of the Great Global Meat Auction coming up, hence the renewed publicity putsch???

[matsuki]

I think she's jumping the shark. I don't know if that sort of award baiting works at meat contests but I know I now consider her at least as vapid and annoying as any other Meat Market contestant I have ever seen, which is a shame. Is the final round of the Great Global Meat Auction coming up, hence the renewed publicity putsch???

"I didn't feel any added pressure because the reason I took part in the pageant was my friend's death. My goal was to raise awareness of racial discrimination," added Miyamoto, who was bullied as a schoolgirl growing up in the port town of Sasebo, near Nagasaki.

"Now I have a great platform to deliver that message as the first black Miss Universe Japan. It's always hard to be the first, so in that respect what Naomi Campbell did was really amazing."

Does seem like that but who knows, maybe she's serious.

[kurogane]

Oh, I've heard her speak. I have no doubt she is sincere, and that she is just a kid and probably has no more than a double digit IQ. She is a professional piece of performing meat after all. What worries me is that a perfectly nice if not particularly pressing message will be overexposed and ruin any potential impact. Until she chubs up a bit and gets some bum I plan to boycott. Let's see, that's France, Korea, Indonesia and Miss Black Japan.　

PS disgusting that Yahoo article calls her black Japanese. This American media obsession with race is revolting.

[Coligny]

PS disgusting that Yahoo article calls her black Japanese. This American media obsession with race is revolting.

Agreed, I think the proper slang is "rice nigger"

[kurogane]

Vous ete tres naughty!!!!!!!!!

I was going to go with Japanese, which is what she is pushing for, hence the irony of that slavering article.

[matsuki]

Could be worse...they could start calling her "African-American Japanese"

[kurogane]

Or Particularly Melanin Blessed?

特別メラニンに富んだ日本人

Ｃｏｐｙｒｉｔｅ！！！！！！！！！！　：ばなな：