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Ukrainian-Born Woman Becomes Miss Japan

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0:00 the way I see Japan going like we talked about birth rate uh another thing is they're starting to allow immigration so now there's going to be so many people that are going to be born and raised in Japan that isn't Japanese and they're going to want to be accepted culturally so then they're going to say I'm also Japanese too and so now you got Brazilians going up to the vending machine buying panties they can sniff on yep and then they're like I'm it's my culture it's my culture that's where I'm from oh I'm a fresh Japanese Harajuku underwear so miss Japan is maybe the greatest Miss Japan of all time you know why cuz she's yeah she's Ukrainian at least she's a she you see that sh at least she a sh I'm glad they're playing I commented on this one did you yeah I saw

0:51 your comment I think it's kind of cool imagine what do you think is cool what is that um that they're starting to challenge the idea of what's Japanese because um I wouldn't be considered give you guys an idea real quick all right so there you go full context I like the fact that they're all pretty I think you know which one that's good yeah I like that I see no color they all look Japanese nice so good such a good commentary this isn't the first time though in 201 15 the Miss Universe Japan she was half black half Japanese sounds hot this this wasn't as white this wasn't as white lot of Japanese Brazilians but she's still Japanese Japanese Brazilian a

1:41 significant population of Japanese Brazilian cuz this is also weird I feel like like you're entering a a burger into a sushi contest you're right no she the Burger Win she's full Ukrainian I think she was uh she grew up there isn't that interesting though how like in our country say in the UK or the US the idea of being British or American or whatever is not uh it's not tied to ethnicity or you know family heritage but then in other places it is right like if you think of what it means to be Japanese yeah like someone could be you know born and raised in Japan like completely speak the language whatever and be of another ethnic background and not be Japanese and they're still foreigners yeah and people wouldn't sort of both Japanese people and even non-japanese people would be like you're not Japanese you're not Japanese you know it's I just think it's interesting how it's kind of different for different

2:32 countries what's and they're right they're right I'm not I'm not um considered Japanese so like there's full bred shba enu and then there's like us that are we're called Nik so we're like foreign born Japanese and when we go there they don't see us as the same and Japan try to do a program like you mentioned there's a lot of Japanese in Brazil and they they they created like this immigration program where made it easier for them to to kind of come to Japan cuz they needed um more workers right so a lot of Japanese Brazilians went there and they just couldn't integrate and they couldn't pass a test they didn't know the language well they didn't know the culture well and then they were just like oh that's a failed experiment so you can be full-blooded Japanese and you go back but if you don't follow every kind of protocol they

3:22 have you're not accept it that's interesting got it yeah well you know what's funny about this article for as inclusive as uh the BBC for example says they are they say some recognize her Victory as a sign of the times others said she does not look like a Miss Japan should it's kind of wild right it's an it's an interesting thing um it's also weird with languages when people like speak something that you totally don't expect them to I remember I was once in a Czech Republic and I heard a bunch of people speaking polish behind me and I was like okay I turned around I expected to see like ethnic polls it was a group of three black girls and I was like like my brain just did like a little like what and then I I I was speaking to him I was like oh like where you from and so yeah they were like you know born and raised in Poland their parents had immigrated there like my

4:13 parents immigrated to the UK from Nigeria sure and it was just like it was just weird it was just so strange hearing the language when they heard you speak did they assume you were American um I don't know cuz you don't sound like you're from the UK yeah I don't have an obvious obvious have you been back to Nigeria yeah many times I was I was there last how how do we like Nigeria these days Nigeria is cool man I mean I've never lived there myself yeah so my my siblings and my my parents have I'm the youngest in my family um when I think of Nigeria man I always just think of potential the Nigeria is a very frustrating country okay because it has so many things going for it in many ways like what fast Runners gosh I it'san the biggest population in Africa okay um lots of Highly educ ated smart people lots of Natural Resources um lots of entrepreneurial

5:05 minded people and so on but It suffers from various things including um you know corruption at that level but also brain drain which is that so many oh brain drain is when the smartest most educated most talented people leave a country to go somewhere else opportun there so many Nigerians in in the UK there's so many Nigerians in Europe in Australia in the USA whatever meaning that here yeah right so we brains suck yeah oh gosh yeah yeah Americans they give head Americans we received my wife does my wife does if you think like the USA BR draw draws in so many talented smart people so much head we brain take we get head we get head we get head from everywhere how many languages do you speak I only speak English fluently um I

5:56 can my Spanish is all right but he speaks like English and and he speaks American dude he also speaks like the metric system that's a that's more educated and he also speaks rymy climing I can drive on the right I can drive on the left automatic manual you know yep the only Americans that understand kilograms are powerlifters and drug dealers you know what you know what's interesting too about this article is that they call it Miss Japan but there's a lot of different pageants that go on in the circuit yeah this one's like Grand Prix it's not that big Miss nepon Grand Prix whatever like some small like when there's like some random pageant in America and then someone wins that and like across the pond they'll be like look at who won Miss America it's like that's not Miss America there's like 10 it's like the mushroom Cup in Mario Kart yeah wow not that that's like a little beauty pageant in Fresno it's not the

6:46 Star Cup not that that's like the smallest one being woke is having a problem with beauty pageants in general that's woke it is funny to imagine that that's the only miss Japan now you know how you're even bringing up that concept about how like we would understand in America or the UK If somebody won like Miss America or Miss UK you wouldn't denominate that to you know them needing to look like uh a specific white or whatever you would understand it's American but like in Japan we all understand that like uh it might be a unique thing or a topic to discuss if they don't look specifically ethn Japanese I mean that's got to be an almost unspoken understanding almost like everywhere in one sense like which countries kind of work with that and which countries don't you know what I'm saying or maybe it's just America and the UK for example that no but it's not I mean France Italy um so even within

7:37 Europe like it's kind of accepted that a a British person a French person um a German an Italian like they can look they can be from whatever ethnicity background but if you thought of like a Polish person or a Romanian or Hungarian or or Russian like you associate it more with the specific ethnicity I don't know exactly why that is actually it's progaming just how we've been programmed and conditioned I kind of put it in a way where like like let's say a Japanese girl won Miss Sweden no there's no controversy behind that and it's because Europe already went through this cuz they went through the change of um kind of linking nativism with nationalism and I think that came when they kind of went

8:27 through with um they're more of an atheist Nation right and then and then they're they're not linking like culture with uh ethnicity anymore it's more like uh Western philosophical thought and America Canada all the West is connected in that sense I know what you mean yeah and then I would consider East Poland hungar like Hungary all them I would I would in the Balkans I would consider them Eastern thought still but in America we do this thing right where it's like hey this is the first time that this person has worn thing right so we're like holy ████ that's so cool uh in 10 years ago in Japan Ariana mamoto nailed it became the first biracial woman to be crowned she was Miss Universe Japan in 2015 and back then with a Japanese mother and African American father she her Victory raised a

9:18 lot of questions about whether a person a mixed race should even be eligible to win MH and now like the fact that this chick this ████ has no Japanese yeah what's funny just that was so how I just where I'm from I think my take on that is it's a regional accent I think my take on that is one that was 10 years ago so this so that was probably the Catalyst to start the conversation and then the society changed in Japan since then like there's more biracial celebrities out in the open and I mean now so many people pull up for uh the tennis player Ozawa she's spy racial right and then um I think a lot has changed since then so now if they're presented with this again everyone's

10:09 more cool with it I think so too so every every country just is just moving at their own it's like Luben lubing the vagina yep if you want to go into it you got to lube it first but that that also means in like a 100 years we keep up this you know thing every everybody's going to be the same shade of brown like Brazil I think cultures are constantly redefining what what it is to be them right so like for example the way I see Japan going like we talked about birth rate uh another thing is they're starting to allow immigration so now there's going to be so many people that are going to be born and raised in Japan that isn't Japanese and they're going to want to be accepted culturally so then they're going to say I'm also Japanese too and so now you got Brazilians going up to the vending machine buying ████ panties they can sniff on yep and then they're like I'm it's my culture it's my

11:00 culture that's where I'm from oh I'm a fresh Japanese Harajuku underwear this is who I am this is part of my identity right we can't say anything does that also does that also mean then that like stuff like 23 and Me loses meaning if it says you're ethnically whatever Japanese but it's like oh I'm just 100% Brazilian or like you know like not really cuz DNA is DNA so yeah but the but the I like it's I think it's like identifying what that DNA and what that culture of the time is so like you know there's ancient words or like you know for for that region people like Mongol or whatever like you have this Alo and marker but they don't say it by the border name I think they just simplify it on 23 and me also I would imagine the more we go into

11:50 the future and the more that everything mixes up in general I think in a weird ████ up human way the more Pride certain pure Bloods will have of Their Own stuff mhm for sure because the more the more rare it gets the more Pride you're going to put into it you know what I mean it's like being unvaccinated yeah ████ your abs aren't purple well even people in Hawaii are like that right like people that can prove that they're even like an eighth true Hawaiian they're super proud do you know what I think though is I think be getting like I I I can understand people feel it pride is a weird word generally because it's a shame that the English language only like the word pride cuz actually it has in many languages there's multiple words for Pride like to the good kind the bad kind and so on um but I think it's I think it's it's interesting I've not I find when people take uh like ridiculous

12:42 levels of pride in something that's just an immutable trait something that they were given they had no choice in the matter yeah I I think it's kind of a loser I think it's kind of a I think it's you don't have any accomplishments I think it's just kind of lame I just think it's lame it's like you know if I'm just sitting here talking about you know my my blackness or I'm so proud of being black I didn't work for it like it's not it's not a personality trait it's not not yeah it's not an achievement it's just like oh I'm so proud to be like I'm it's just like okay yeah but as the white guy who's you just are I think it's want to get there I think the good type of pride is like meaning you're you know you're comfortable in your own skin cool like I'm like cool I'm I feel no shame in like who I am I'm who I am I like talking about accomplishments that were done by guys that look like me but I had nothing to do with but then you have to take their sins too cuz it cuts both ways right then it's

13:33 like oh Someone Like You 200 years ago did this who look like you know they shared you melanin tone and 200 years ago that it's like no no no you can pick and choose you get to Cherry pick whatever you and I do I tell people I'm Irish I like to represent and defend all men because we're all on the same team against women let's cut that we're going to cut that that's the one you [Music] cut

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