Kenji Yoshino

So if you think about this era after World War II, the anti-Japanese sentiment must have been enormous. So I do sometimes think that they thought, well, we suffered through all of this because we had to, but we thought that you were going to grow up in a kinder, gentler America with regard to race, and so you would be able to kind of write your own ticket.

So if you think about this era after World War II, the anti-Japanese sentiment must have been enormous. So I do sometimes think that they thought, well, we suffered through all of this because we had to, but we thought that you were going to grow up in a kinder, gentler America with regard to race, and so you would be able to kind of write your own ticket.

But now you are embracing or identifying with this identity that is so stigmatized that you're essentially going to have to go through all of this prejudice that we went through just on a different dimension.

But now you are embracing or identifying with this identity that is so stigmatized that you're essentially going to have to go through all of this prejudice that we went through just on a different dimension.

But now you are embracing or identifying with this identity that is so stigmatized that you're essentially going to have to go through all of this prejudice that we went through just on a different dimension.

I want to say that they differ, but I also feel that I owe them an incredible amount for the fact that I can hold a position that's different from theirs. So to explain this, I think my dad's attitude towards assimilation was this, you know, I'm going to be 100% American in America and 100% Japanese in Japan.

I want to say that they differ, but I also feel that I owe them an incredible amount for the fact that I can hold a position that's different from theirs. So to explain this, I think my dad's attitude towards assimilation was this, you know, I'm going to be 100% American in America and 100% Japanese in Japan.

I want to say that they differ, but I also feel that I owe them an incredible amount for the fact that I can hold a position that's different from theirs. So to explain this, I think my dad's attitude towards assimilation was this, you know, I'm going to be 100% American in America and 100% Japanese in Japan.

And so he was deeply, you know, assimilated and went from being a young immigrant to this country to ending his life as a you know chaired professor at harvard and the business school so he had a very storied career and i really did think i do think that he felt that this ability to code switch seamlessly between the two cultures was what he wanted to do and

And so he was deeply, you know, assimilated and went from being a young immigrant to this country to ending his life as a you know chaired professor at harvard and the business school so he had a very storied career and i really did think i do think that he felt that this ability to code switch seamlessly between the two cultures was what he wanted to do and

And so he was deeply, you know, assimilated and went from being a young immigrant to this country to ending his life as a you know chaired professor at harvard and the business school so he had a very storied career and i really did think i do think that he felt that this ability to code switch seamlessly between the two cultures was what he wanted to do and

My view was I actually don't want to code switch. I don't want to assimilate in either country. I want to be myself. I want to be the same person regardless of where I am. And to the extent that environment is inhospitable to the person that I really am, then I will not live there. I will not work there, right?

My view was I actually don't want to code switch. I don't want to assimilate in either country. I want to be myself. I want to be the same person regardless of where I am. And to the extent that environment is inhospitable to the person that I really am, then I will not live there. I will not work there, right?

My view was I actually don't want to code switch. I don't want to assimilate in either country. I want to be myself. I want to be the same person regardless of where I am. And to the extent that environment is inhospitable to the person that I really am, then I will not live there. I will not work there, right?

So I think one of the reasons why I cooled on Japan as a place to live or work was that I just felt like LGBTQIA plus rights were just in a different place than they were in the United States. But the two stories are intricated with each other, right?

So I think one of the reasons why I cooled on Japan as a place to live or work was that I just felt like LGBTQIA plus rights were just in a different place than they were in the United States. But the two stories are intricated with each other, right?

So I think one of the reasons why I cooled on Japan as a place to live or work was that I just felt like LGBTQIA plus rights were just in a different place than they were in the United States. But the two stories are intricated with each other, right?

Because I don't think that I could have the life that I am privileged enough to live right now if he hadn't lived his life so that he actually created the conditions of, you know, privilege and advantage, whether that was educational or familial nurture or self-confidence or what have you, that allowed me to live the life that I'm living now.

Because I don't think that I could have the life that I am privileged enough to live right now if he hadn't lived his life so that he actually created the conditions of, you know, privilege and advantage, whether that was educational or familial nurture or self-confidence or what have you, that allowed me to live the life that I'm living now.

Because I don't think that I could have the life that I am privileged enough to live right now if he hadn't lived his life so that he actually created the conditions of, you know, privilege and advantage, whether that was educational or familial nurture or self-confidence or what have you, that allowed me to live the life that I'm living now.