{"id":57432,"date":"2019-01-31T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57432"},"modified":"2019-01-31T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:26:15","slug":"naomi-osaka-and-the-expectations-put-upon-biracial-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57432","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka And The Expectations Put Upon Biracial Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/naomi-osaka-and-the-expectations-put-upon-biracial-japa-1832150748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Naomi Osaka And The Expectations Put Upon Biracial Japanese<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/c\/kotaku-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kotaku East<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kotaku<\/a><br \/>\n2019-01-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brian_Ashcraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brian Ashcraft<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Osaka, Japanese<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/naomi-osaka-and-the-expectations-put-upon-biracial-japa-1832150748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ls-lazy-image-tag cursor-pointer lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--RPZDFNym--\/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800\/wprjthsxndcbtfulofbs.png\" sizes=\"800px\" width=\"550\" data-width=\"849\" data-chomp-id=\"wprjthsxndcbtfulofbs\" data-format=\"png\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Screenshot: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aJiHdde5nO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>ANNnewsCH<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naomi_Osaka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> fielded a question from a Japanese reporter who wanted the tennis star to reply in Japanese. \u201cI\u2019m going to say it in English,\u201d Osaka replied.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter said <em>kongurachureeshon<\/em> (congratulations) instead of <em>omedetou gozaimasu<\/em>, Japanese for \u201ccongratulations,\u201d before going into a question about the difficulty of playing the left-handed player <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petra_Kvitov\u00e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petra Kvitov\u00e1<\/a>. \u201cFirst,\u201d the reporter continued, \u201cin Japanese, could you say something about how hard it was?\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/naomi-osaka-and-the-expectations-put-upon-biracial-japa-1832150748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while biracial people in Japan might not even be expected to speak or know Japanese due to their appearance or the larger societal presumptions, Osaka is now expected to show her Japaneseness, whether that\u2019s being asked about her love of Japanese food or asked to say things in Japanese. Her situation is reversed, but the expectations are still there. These are expectations that are not put upon Japanese coming from a singular background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,16,8,842],"tags":[19615,1793,29343,29342,22759,7222,21018],"class_list":["post-57432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-videos","tag-brian-ashcraft","tag-japan","tag-kotaku","tag-kotaku-east","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57433,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57432\/revisions\/57433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}