wuchan wrote:david aldwinckle forgot the #1 rule: No matter how hard you try, ... you can't ever become Japanese.
If you say so.
(This is too complicated a post for a FG comment [Coligny probably prefers I just slum it and post jpgs of JP tail on FG], so I'll just post this video that sums up one aspect, but not all aspects, of "being Japanese": the identity aspect)
The 15 second sound bite: If it is true that Debito felt he was never accepted as "a Japanese" (outside of a legal sense), it is because, deep down, he never accepted himself as "a Japanese".
The 15 second sound bite made cooler with Yoda: