Animation Isolation: How anime’s booming popularity in the 2000s became my personal reckoning of what it means to be Japanese American

When I was in the ninth grade, I achieved the unthinkable. I got a “C.” My friends in Ms. Gunde’s first period class had to know why. How did I barely pass Japanese 1 when my own mother is Japanese? I am Nisei, a second-generation Japanese-American. According to the Pew Research Center, there are over…

Source: https://eccunion.com/warrior-life/2024/11/04/animation-isolation-how-animes-booming-popularity-in-the-2000s-became-my-personal-reckoning-of-what-it-means-to-be-japanese-american/

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