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  1. Regarding Japan's longstanding ban on dual #citizenship, an Asahi Shimbun editorial asahi.com/ajw/articles/1484632 is fine as far as it goes, but it focuses on the type of #Japanese #expatriates in #Europe who are suspected of changing #nationality to evade taxes. To us #immigrants in #Japan, it is more important that our half-Japanese "haafu" kids and others should not feel forced to choose one cultural allegiance simply because #biculturalism is not recognized or understood here. See "Dual Nationality in Japan: Learning to Love Ambiguity" at academia.edu/38566597 or shingetsunewsagency.com/2019/0
    The law is not enforced in Japan, so it can be like a joke that vaccination makes three passports. Our happy-go-lucky sons have no conception of what it would be like to be an outsider or to agonize over their cultural #identity.
    Once I tried to explain "What it Means to Be Bicultural" - at academia.edu/36008217 or childresearch.net/papers/langu
    How about this issue in your country or region?
    @Bilingualism

  2. Regarding Japan's longstanding ban on dual #citizenship, an Asahi Shimbun editorial asahi.com/ajw/articles/1484632 is fine as far as it goes, but it focuses on the type of #Japanese #expatriates in #Europe who are suspected of changing #nationality to evade taxes. To us #immigrants in #Japan, it is more important that our half-Japanese "haafu" kids and others should not feel forced to choose one cultural allegiance simply because #biculturalism is not recognized or understood here. See "Dual Nationality in Japan: Learning to Love Ambiguity" at academia.edu/38566597 or shingetsunewsagency.com/2019/0
    The law is not enforced in Japan, so it can be like a joke that vaccination makes three passports. Our happy-go-lucky sons have no conception of what it would be like to be an outsider or to agonize over their cultural #identity.
    Once I tried to explain "What it Means to Be Bicultural" - at academia.edu/36008217 or childresearch.net/papers/langu
    How about this issue in your country or region?
    @Bilingualism