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Ariana Miyamoto daughter of a Japanese woman and an African-American American, who has caused a sensation and controversy in Japan by being the first "" (mixed race) because she had half-Japanese and half-African American features to win the national beauty title and will represent the country in the international competition. Miyamoto decided to run as a candidate for Miss Nagasaki (the Japanese prefecture from which she is originally from) following the suicide of a childhood friend who was also a "," she explains in an interview. «He was 20 years old, a year older than me at the time, and suffered from identity problems. "When he died I decided that he had to do something about it," says Miyamoto, who just turned 21. The worst stage of her life, she says, was primary school, where some classmates refused to touch her or shake her hand "because they said it would make them dirty," or they would get out of the pool when she jumped in. «Now I have learned to take advantage of being different.
Admits Miyamoto, with dark skin, almond-shaped eyes and curly hair that he usually wears up in a bun. Even so, she has had to endure racist America Mobile Number List comments in the media and social networks for not being "" ("pure" in Japanese) and not conforming to the national beauty ideal: pale skin, straight hair and delicate features. "I expected it and, although it still makes me angry, I'm used to it," says Miyamoto matter-of-factly, who believes that she would have received less criticism if she had been half Asian and half white instead of having black ancestry. «I was born and raised in Japan, and I have a Japanese passport and nationality. I would like to ask those people who criticized me where they think I am from », she says with a more serious gesture. Miyamoto feels "Japanese at heart" and she demonstrates this with her body language - such as bowing and other characteristic Japanese gestures - and by expressing herself in Japanese, a language she prefers to English despite having spent time in the United States, where she has family.
However during his adolescence he went through an identity crisis and decided to travel to his father'**CENSORED** country of origin in search of his roots, as he explains. «I didn't like having a Japanese heart and a body from somewhere else. When I went to live in the US, I discovered that I am really Japanese," she says. This is a problem shared by many "" in Japan, which in 2013 accounted for 1.9 percent of all births in the Asian country, according to data from the Japanese Executive. That same year, mixed marriages (between a citizen of Japan and a foreigner) accounted for 3.3 percent of the total, a percentage that has increased fourfold since the 1980s. This trend contrasts with the demographic decline that Japan has suffered in recent years, due to the aging of its population and the low birth rate. In this context, Miyamoto believes that "a change of mentality" is necessary to end the discrimination of "" and has decided to express this message amplified with the power of influence and fame that has given her the title of Miss Japan. . "No matter how much I did activism about racism as a person, they wouldn't pay me the same attention as if I did it as a Miss," says Miyamoto, whose reference is the pop diva Mariah Carey, of Irish and African-American blood and also very committed to causes.
Admits Miyamoto, with dark skin, almond-shaped eyes and curly hair that he usually wears up in a bun. Even so, she has had to endure racist America Mobile Number List comments in the media and social networks for not being "" ("pure" in Japanese) and not conforming to the national beauty ideal: pale skin, straight hair and delicate features. "I expected it and, although it still makes me angry, I'm used to it," says Miyamoto matter-of-factly, who believes that she would have received less criticism if she had been half Asian and half white instead of having black ancestry. «I was born and raised in Japan, and I have a Japanese passport and nationality. I would like to ask those people who criticized me where they think I am from », she says with a more serious gesture. Miyamoto feels "Japanese at heart" and she demonstrates this with her body language - such as bowing and other characteristic Japanese gestures - and by expressing herself in Japanese, a language she prefers to English despite having spent time in the United States, where she has family.
However during his adolescence he went through an identity crisis and decided to travel to his father'**CENSORED** country of origin in search of his roots, as he explains. «I didn't like having a Japanese heart and a body from somewhere else. When I went to live in the US, I discovered that I am really Japanese," she says. This is a problem shared by many "" in Japan, which in 2013 accounted for 1.9 percent of all births in the Asian country, according to data from the Japanese Executive. That same year, mixed marriages (between a citizen of Japan and a foreigner) accounted for 3.3 percent of the total, a percentage that has increased fourfold since the 1980s. This trend contrasts with the demographic decline that Japan has suffered in recent years, due to the aging of its population and the low birth rate. In this context, Miyamoto believes that "a change of mentality" is necessary to end the discrimination of "" and has decided to express this message amplified with the power of influence and fame that has given her the title of Miss Japan. . "No matter how much I did activism about racism as a person, they wouldn't pay me the same attention as if I did it as a Miss," says Miyamoto, whose reference is the pop diva Mariah Carey, of Irish and African-American blood and also very committed to causes.