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In contrast, the tradition of Okinawan finger tattoos was essentially eradicated when the Japanese took over https://blog.janm.org/index.php/2015/08/27/the-sec
by kochikame 8y ago
In contrast, the tradition of Okinawan finger tattoos was essentially eradicated when the Japanese took over
https://blog.janm.org/index.php/2015/08/27/the-secret-history-of-okinawan-tattoos/ https://blog.janm.org/index.php/2015/08/27/the-secret-histor...
- ListeningPie 8y agoDoes fourth-generation Okinawan mean that her great-great- grandparent moved out of Okinawa and yet still consider oneself an It seems like the article is using the fact the author is a fourth generation Okinawan to frame her as an authority on the subject, which I don’t think is valid. All the second generation Europeans I know call themselves whatever citizenship they have adopted. They don’t learn their parents language, instead strive to be integrated into their new country. Can someone explain the American habit of keeping track of being 1/8 Irish or a 4th generation anything? I can’t help but see this as a vain attempt at being unique and interesting.
- ecshafer 8y agoIn America it's a pride thing since even if you don't consider yourself whatever ethnicity, everyone else does. If you have an Irish last name people will call you Irish, even if your family has been in the states for 4 generations. So people become attached to that out of pride.
- kochikame 8y agoI get the pride but there comes a point when "Irish Americans" can no longer speak for Irish people, a point that I feel is much sooner than 4th generation Like the commenter above you, I am very suspicious of Americans with only tenuous connections to a far off land claiming expertise/knowledge/understanding of that culture
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