Sakie Oohata

In those days, I think this problem going down but still there is in Japan. In my case, my parents will be ok but my grand parents will not acectable about that case. I think there is a reason why, because long time ago we had a many wars and then the wars made a strong stereotype to different country people into old Japanese people.

Aya Eguchi

I have taught with my mother about interracial marriage before. At the time, my mother said "I have no reason to disagree with international marriage. The problem is whether you will be happy or not. However, I will worry about whether you are able to adapt different culture or not.” In this way, my mother does not care that race is different and I think she will try to understand internal character. What do you think how your mother think about interracial marriage?

Yufu Shimada

If I get marry with foreigner, my mother not accepts because my mother worried about relationship of each family. It is difficult for them to understand of each culture. Probably, my mother will not accept.

However, if I want not to part with him, I would persuade my mother.

If you have such a situation, your mother not accept, too?

Ayano Kato

If I have such a situation, my parents also wouldn't admit my marriage. Because they have a old thinking. However, if I love him so much, I would try to persuade my perents. I don't judge only apperance.

In America, Do these problems happen so much?

Amina Hiraoka

If I bring my foreigner boyfriend (the color of skin doesn’t matter here), my parents would be really surprised. Still, “foreigners” are special for Japanese. Just because my boyfriend is foreigner, first of all, I have to convince my anxious parents that he is just same as you and he is not an alien. ( to live in Japan, you have to get a card called “Alien Card”. I think it sounds terrible)

You also have to try really hard to take off stereotype images from your family members and relatives.

To solve this, you should present your partner to your family little by little, and then they will get used to and start liking him/her, I guess.

If your parents don’t like your partner, what would you do? You will just give up?

Your parents’ opinions or the love with your bf/gf, which one is more important for you?


Thank you

Akari Watanabe

If I introduce foreigner as a fiance to my family, my family object first maybe. Because they worry about communication to fiance, and they want to know that we are how serious. After we talk each other several times, we can get a answer.

Yoko Ishida

If I introduce other country’s person as my boyfriend to my family, they must be surprised. Then, they will worry how to communicate with him because they can’t speak other country’s languages and my family doesn’t have opportunity to communicate with foreigner. So, they can’t accept him at once. However if I tell them about his character and culture, they will understand and accept him.

If you have the problem like this skit, how do you solve it?