Japanese American Survey

[savagepanda]

hey all :) so i'm conducting this survey about Japanese American Identity for my asian american studies minor and i seriously, seriously, hope that i'll get replies. it's a very short survey and i'll be so grateful if any of you could take a minute or two to just fill it out.

you're all free to fill it out :D though it'd be nice if you're Japanese American since the questions are quite specific. thanks!!!!

1) how would you answer this question: what are you?
a) Japanese
b) American
c) Japanese - American
d) American - Japanese

2) what do you identify being more of?
a) Japanese
b) American
c) Neither

3) if you choose a) or b), why do you feel you identify with your answer? (pick all that apply)
a) culture/heritage
b) friends
c)language
d) holidays/food
e) community

4) what do you want to identify being more of?
a) Japanese
b) American
c) Neither

5) if you choose c), do you feel that:
a) you are an outsider; you don't belong
b) a sense of cultural clash
c) not knowing for certain where your home is
d) identity was never something you struggled with

6) which culture do you feel you adapted first?
a) Japanese
b) American

7) do you feel that adpating the second culture was hard?
a) yes
b) no

8) if yes, what made it hard?
if no, what made it easy?

if there's any additional comments you'd like to post, please do! thanks for filling this out!

[hooligan]

What school is this for? I have an AAS minor!

[Leinad]

im a korean kiwi bird, but can be counted as japanese cuz i know...
a. hiragana
b. how to read hiragana
c. i know how to look at it and analyse wat it says
d. i know wat the term 'sushi' is
e. wat 'hard 'is in japanese

so...

1. e. japanese (aka korean)-american (aka new zealander)

2. c. neither... but a kiwi

3. b. friends
c. language
d. something

4. c. none... i want to identify more with Maoris and pac. islanders... serious

5. a. Outsider. but i live inside.

6. k. wats k?

7. as in Japanese (aka korean)? yes (aka a)

8. the customs... manners... basic animal rights... the noise... the KIMCHI... the language... um... fart... the bike... the sofa?... the miso soup.... and tryna b a computer-nerd. That pretty much puts everything in context. That was 'muzukashi' not. was 'yasahi' (?). and it was tanoshii desu.