Of course, I say this as a diaspora Asian of sorts.
Noizumi is half-Japanese, and she found herself thinking, “Why am I so excited that my daughter has blue eyes? What’s the big deal about that? And why am I so excited that I have a baby who looks more white?”
This is the kind of statement that would get a white celebrity cancelled for saying it, but apparently it's just a fun tidbit for Netflix.
In their early creative conversations that would eventually span 15 years, they started spinning a tale about how “back in the Edo period starting in 17th-century Japan, it would’ve been illegal to be white.
Wtf based Edo period.
CW: Rape
According to some of the promotional materials, the main character is a product of rape of a Japanese woman by a white man, which is a terrible and insensitive if they play it straight and a weeb fantasy if they redeem the dad at the end.
Idk if the series is as good as they say, but how the fuck did they think that publishing any of this was a good idea?
Internalised racism and white supremacy maybe
if she had left it there, unusual eye colors are neat. but she just had to keep going
cringe
When the global empire rewards people for a physical appearance that aligns with the Supremacist Ideal, it isn't unreasonable for a parent to think "Wow! My kid really dodged a bullet, by looking like someone the Aristocracy will not actively seek to exterminate."
Its an instinctual survivalist response. I wouldn't want my kid targeted for ethnic cleansing either.
Was about to comment this, it's a response to internalized oppression and white suprememcy, it's a good thing that she was questioning those thoughts about her baby.
The article makes it sound like she had a Principal Skinner moment.
"Have I internalized white supremacist self-hating sentiment?"
"No, my child will be an Aryan ubermensch."
That's fair, the phrasing in the article is pretty weird.