hey everybody max here again I'm in
Seattle and it's raining old plastic I'm
in front of this place called cut or
watch cut and I have a very special
session here who's actually filming
right there and we're going to go talk
to her today just going to introduce us
hey let me oh oh look at that I wasn't
already here I'm so happy and I work
here yeah like - on the blog - calm
video but she's going to showing me
around and show you guys around Conklin
weed Nation magazine my grandma's from
that we uh I did see that video though I
haven't it whoa-ho computer comes my
clothes so they use alot bigger the RC
on your dad built in society well you've
built this whole kind looks like a cabin
ah actually people working is actually
people cook yes whatever you get you
actually have to do it we have
everything prepared
Oh
yeah we have the coffee enema once a
week we usually pick one person to do it
I'm July maybe at the end of the video
tell me one memorable video I always
taste my favorite but I'm a little
biased news document and I like the
whole thing but my mom and I did the
research for 100 years in Beauty Japan a
hundred years communities are series
that we do pretty popular but we always
have someone do the research and it's
always a lot better when it's someone
this is like actually from that country
and understand culture and google it
native language so my mom did a lot of
it and then we do research video
together as well which you can find on
youtube and I got to be upset and kind
of like creative direct all right okay
and we're in oh they're here
how does it happen and did it take like
50 minutes to set everything up
not at all but this is a media happy as
you know so we're going to start talking
to marina
first question actually this is not too
related I guess is related your name
arena is that yes MA Nina or is that
pretty uh I do have kanji for muddiness
okay I'm the only one out of my three
siblings that has actual coffee I had a
kind of talk about work well my mom
always wanted a girl and I think she had
like a college roommate that was named
marina from somewhere South America but
her best friend in Japan her name buddy
okay mom and I don't know what the time
about mehndi so that she is added not
that into that okay you said you're half
Japanese what's the other half and the
other half it's really American I think
like I wanted to be six or
seven generations of Americans but so I
had nothing fancy and European right but
I can assume that Taylor is British me
yes and then I think Swedish so you're
not exactly sure yeah you just
I haven't taken the DNA test okay you
just know Caucasian yeah did you grow up
in Seattle are you from here and how
long have you been here so I am born and
raised in America I've enlisted like the
same house in Hawaii in a suburb of
Seattle at Bellevue but my mom moved to
escape when she went to the University
Oregon yeah we've been here forever I've
never lived in Japan the longest I've
ever stayed in Japan is maybe like two
months
you obviously visit a lot yeah and the
quizzes from how long have you been
going back so I was born in November at
the end of November and the first time I
went to Japan was a Christmas so I was
like in Japan before I was a month old
so did you grow up speaking Japanese
because of that yeah my siblings and I
we all grew up speaking Japanese gaming
village and then we were put in job to
be school when we could go to school
which is a good Saturday thanks yeah I I
want to be better at each other
really wait what about a family friend
who also was a lot more talkative with
us in Geoffrey my vocabulary
just gone so maybe but any home would
even interviewed my make it there you
know Justin you Homer Lee honish my
cousin I gotta know Erica okay well
that's okay because I don't want to put
so close we're gonna do English
you did say you know you were going to
Japanese at school how many words years
is that I guess it started in your
and then I went to 5th grade in Seattle
yeah and did you feel like you fit in
yeah um so in Japanese school they have
like two classes one was like you come
shopping again which means rhododendron
which is like the flower of Seattle and
the other Lakota and that was for like
the kids that had come from Japan Oh
their parents were Japanese like they
are like here to actually learn in case
they go back where the kids were like
past is my stuff right away I was like
here what if it was like oh really what
if it was like born in the US Japanese
people
well hey it's not like you were we did
oh there's a very very quick anecdote I
want to throw in there because they did
something similar like that in Sofia
University where I had to take you had a
native speaker placement test yeah and a
non-native non-native speaker placement
test for taking a Japanese class and as
a native speaker placement test was way
harder I took both because long story
short I took both yeah and my native
speaker Japanese Fez was completely
blank it was like you have to basically
just how to write kanji and refunds oh
they didn't like test you on like how to
speak language because they figured with
your knee I'm good yeah didn't you say
you're also going to Japan in Japanese
school yeah so my mom grew up in gaya
and so she went to a place official
graphical and so whenever we would go
back and stay with my grandpa who lived
in that same house yes and then my
siblings and I would all enroll in
Japanese school for like the three weeks
that we were on break but Japanese kids
weren't yet yeah so they would invite us
in and we just take classes with them
and be like a regular children did you
have to like I think I did that like one
turquoi yeah I remember like
we were we had it like kids mackovic
served like the food yeah I know now you
only see those videos like on now that's
what I'm a yeah shock there like it is
jenever these people you're Japanese
kids learned different yeah my young age
like there are no janitors and Jack will
show their big an English class and
they'd always have me come up in my team
support yeah well you're hot but I'm in
the front you weren't in Baird no
because I'm so bad at the Japanese
finally something I'm I can like both
thing I can do yeah I always felt like
so because I went to Japanese school a
little bit in North Carolina yeah and
like the only other guy that I could
relate with was the other half Japanese
kid who also couldn't speak English so I
Jeff Anita but I just remember for the
plate we had to do like plays yeah and I
wanted to do the narrator because that
means all I had to do was just three
straight off and um and then he wanted
to play the dog because all you have to
do is make dogs but it was pretty
delicious actually I just remembered out
of things I remember like it matters
once a week or something but we go to
the pool and at the end of the summer
they do this thing where you have to
jump in with all your clothes on as
practice in case some time during a
siesta me you fall into a body of water
so you like are used to swimming out of
it with your clothes it's like what do
you do that's actually some more like
for fun than anything I am looking I
don't like are you doing you know okay I
wanted to talk about you know
specifically being hot though not
half-japanese did you find anything
anything here in Seattle that you felt
was like did you have any stories or I
grew up in Bellevue which like there are
a lot of Asian people there weren't too
many half Japanese people oh I have a
one hatch up
that's out way but like we would
celebrate Chino must be an aroma Buddha
and sometimes I'd be embarrassed to
bring my friends over goodbye Asian
compared to my friends were white yeah
and sometimes for lunch like I said I've
had like a lunchbox moment as it's
called when I bring cuttings on from
such Maya it's so sad because I think a
lot of just full age and people can
relate to that in the u.s. like they
break something
everyone's like what is that smell like
it's just my food yeah I guess people
really dig something up here I think I
like I'm pretty American luckily I
didn't encounter any like bullying and I
feel like I was younger I never like
resented being Asian but like being
around only white kids there's always
like oh I wish this and that like I
meant I was like jealous people I went
to church like I want to have a First
Communion necklace like crap for Easter
stuff but now that I'm older I feel like
being half it's like a lucky thing does
that mean though you're having identity
crisis maybe I don't know if you're like
diagnosing me when did it kind of
stopped where you're like I'm good where
I am I guess in college or like when
you're younger I mean it's like pretty
common in everyone when you're younger
you like hate what makes you different
and then once you get older you're like
oh crap oh you want to be different
yeah something's to make you like you be
I have a pretty like crush me like ha ha
ha Trish is that a fun for all the weed
I have seen cause she were to see oh
actually no I think I have a better
answer
ok thank you yes you're so wrong yeah
for growing up my dad whose wife he
speaks Japanese and he was actually more
involved in the Japanese community in
Seattle and my mom was his business
created the jacksons language to speak
were in Seattle he did yes all the soy
source actually he created it he doesn't
do it as Marge and sold it to someone
else but um they would create guide
books in Japanese for Seattle and do
like translating interest yeah so my
life has always been like Japanese stuff
in America right no I guess I am more
connected to my Japanese side but like I
live in America and I am American so
that's perfect right it's like so
blended I guess I wanted to switch gears
and talk back about when you're in Japan
how do people react to you as I have
Japanese because there's this particular
yeah I had no idea how many times as in
Japan probably you don't either like
maybe even like 15 and 20 times I'd say
recently I've noticed what we always
kind of get looked at in some way I get
I'm with my brother on a train or
something people I don't think I don't
do it anyways like offensively you're
right um and then a lot of people are
just like yeah put my finger on it but
you look different and anything if I'm
at like a store buying something and I'm
speaking a Japanese I'm actually really
bad at Japanese uh what it is I should
be much better right do you stay like
anything there or just like say how do
you go through thank you for telling me
my job oh yeah thank you
okay I'm trying to yeah it's like really
good good people approach you ever like
hey hey you food no I've never been a
coach like that like when I was younger
and I'd be walking around
I got like scouted a few times younger
like like 13 oh that's like the front
i'm japanese idol exactly like yeah that
used to happen everything super stoked
about it but then nothing would ever
happen because i'd come back to Japan or
come back to America a week later you
could
famous hospitality right now my group in
Japan like no but that's about it
yeah maybe other things happen that I'm
just like oblivious to their any final
words you have that you want to share it
to anyone else who might be aging right
up in the u.s. or not just me they're
hot asian or mixing yeah I feel like if
you're next or if you're from like a
different culture even if you're not and
you're like interested in it to just
dive into it and like learn as much as
you can experience which is containers
go to like the restaurant of a different
cuisine than you're used to
yeah as like any kind of experience you
can get different than your own we like
at tears that's funny you just have to
make sure you got the right yeah
sometimes you could go to not-so-good
Japanese - yeah like people that go get
ramen and it's like vegan broth with -
like you're like wow what is that don't
call this Pramod the shame to the name
yeah we can wrap up the video I did
actually have one for price for you yeah
how close it is
I got sushi with tons of us Bobby and
all I'm gonna say if you're gonna play a
game we ain't I've been watching a lot
of song movies so this is like a no no
we were like basically what I are going
to do we're going to rock paper scissors
and then whoever loses ask anyone oh
this one so we're only going to go for
it
loser system
okay are you ready I do like wasabi mmm
like you're not that lemony this not so
bad it's not so bad at all ready all
right ah ha ha ha Oh
Bon Appetit oh man I usually lose me
this is all hey we can't shave me okay
fine you can shave off a little bit cuz
I'm for some night and this cucumber
inside to kind of like soften the boy as
a Japanese person you will handle this
with honor it just swallowed a followed
it
wow she's been really good guy I can't
tell if you're ha ha really
how did you I think I avoided my tongue
yes you just like solid in the back of
your throat yeah they also did GI shoes
but you did it congratulations I feel
like I should have put a little bit more
on top here Thank You marina ash was
going on the video thank you guys for
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