Diversity is not a goal we should aim for, but the reality that is already there.

Shimoji Lawrence Yoshitaka

 

 

The sociologist says that a word of “half” has been spoken of and imaged like a plaything in the context of the times, aside from the thoughts of those people who are called half. And he carefully digs out the voices of those that have been distorted and drowned. Because people with diverse backgrounds have already lived next to each other in this country, he continues. From "Mixed Race And Japanese."

 

"November 17  2019

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun"