New Yorker: Ágota Kristóf and the Uses of Illiteracy https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/agota-kristof-and-the-uses-of-illiteracy #NewYorker #Books/SecondRead #Expatriates #Hungarians #Language #Fiction #Memoirs

My family can relate to this article.

( #Diaspora #guilt refers to a #culpability that #expatriates feel when living away from their country. When their nation trudges through periods of #crisis and #instability , expatriates witnessing their nation suffer, unable to help, suffer in solidarity with their countrymen; while some feel helpless, others are empowered to cause change.)

https://thevarsity.ca/2023/03/19/after-seeking-sanctuary

#AsianMastodon #displacement #Disconnected #FamilyTies #BIPOC #POC

Regarding Japan's longstanding ban on dual #citizenship, an Asahi Shimbun editorial https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14846327 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 https://www.academia.edu/38566597 or https://shingetsunewsagency.com/2019/03/17/dual-nationality-in-japan-learning-to-love-ambiguity
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 https://www.academia.edu/36008217 or https://www.childresearch.net/papers/language/2010_02_01.html
How about this issue in your country or region?
@Bilingualism

I’ve been flying the St Andrew’s Cross Scottish flag on my house since that independence referendum in… 2013 (?).

Should Scotland goes independent, I am totally going to look into what it takes to move there, not just visit. But a visit, first, of course! #scotland #scottishhighlands #expatriates

I’ve been flying the St Andrew’s Cross Scottish flag on my house since that independence referendum in… 2013 (?).

Should Scotland goes independent, I am totally going to look into what it takes to move there, not just visit. But a visit, first, of course! #scotland #scottishhighlands #expatriates