My Problem with PewDiePie having a Kid in JAPAN

So as most of you know by now, PewDiePie

has announced that he's going to be a dad.

I saw his new video which was titled We're

Pregnant, which by the way, I think it's

really stupid when guys say that we are

pregnant when only one person in the

relationship is actually pregnant. I

thought the video was kind of goofy. It

was very well shot, very cinematic, with

this cheesy inspirational stock music

playing in the background. It kind of felt

like watching a trailer to some kind of

Netflix movie, and everyone's

congratulating them and happy for them,

but no one seems to be addressing the

problem of having a white kid kid in

Japan. PewDiePie and Marzia have only

recently just moved to Japan last year,

so I'm assuming that they've set up the

house and the home to be in Japan. That's

where they're going to raise their kid and

give birth to the kid. They've only just

moved there. They barely know anything

about Japan, what it's like to live in

Japan versus just being a tourist in

Japan. Even though they officially live in

Japan, they're still basically just

glorified tourists who have a lot of money

and they're able to get a house and home

in Japan. I don't really think they've

considered the ramifications of having a

white baby in Japan. So the The

nationality of this kid is going to be so

confusing. First of all, he or she is

going to be technically a Japanese person

because they're born in Japan, but they're

fully white with a Swedish dad and an

Italian mother, neither of whom are even

native English speakers or can even speak

good Japanese. I know they're studying

Japanese, but neither of their Japanese is

very good. PewDiePie's Japanese is very

basic, and he wouldn't even be able to

pass the N4 of the JLPT. This kid is not

even born yet, and I can already see the

self-identity problems it's going to be

having. As a white person who is Japanese?

Is it going to identify as a Japanese

person when other Japanese people don't

even accept them as a Japanese person

because they're going to be white? Can you

imagine when this kid grows up and later

in life people ask them, so where are you

from? And they say, oh, I'm Japanese.

People are going to be like, no, where are

you really from? I'm half Asian and half

white, and I was born in England, grew up

in England, was raised in England. But

other English people never saw me as their

fellow Englishman. They always saw me as

like this Asian kid who doesn't really

look like everyone else. And I grew up

having a lot of self-identity problems

thinking, wait, I'm English, but no one

else thinks of me as English because I

don't look English. You have no idea how

annoying it is being constantly asked

where you're from and having almost every

single conversation being dominated by

what you look like and how you look

different to everyone else. I got so sick

and fed up with this, I actually decided

to move to Asia because I just feel more

comfortable living in Asian countries

where everyone around me kind of looks

like me. Human beings are group animals

and we're very tribalistic. It's very

important to our survival to be accepted

and to be included in our group, in our

community, because back in the olden days,

if you weren't accepted by your community

or your group or your tribe, you would

have been isolated and exiled and you

probably wouldn't have survived by

yourself. Human beings were never really

designed to be lone wolves. We're not

bears, we're not snakes, we're not

scorpions. We are primates that evolved to

be part of a group and our survival

depended on that. So it's a very basic and

primal instinct for someone to want to be

included and feel like they're part of a

group. And it's very hard to feel like

you're part of a group when you look so

different to everyone else in that group.

Now you might be thinking, what are you

talking about? Japanese people love white

people. And this is kind of true, but only

to a certain extent. Japanese people's

admiration and obsession with white people

stems from a place of deep-seated

xenophobia and racism. Japanese people

love white people in the same way that

people love going to the zoo and pointing

and laughing at the cute animals in the

cages and taking selfies with them so they

can post on Instagram. It isn't really too

different to that. I'm sure many white

people who have traveled to Japan have had

this experience of a bunch of school kids

or maybe just random Japanese people on

the streets coming up to them and asking

if it's okay if they can take a picture

with them. And maybe you think this is

very flattering and very nice and

everything because you feel like a rock

star in Japan, but really this is a form

of racism. This kid is going to have so

many problems even though he or she is

going to probably be able to speak fluent

Japanese. And is technically going to be a

Japanese person, they're going to

constantly have to show their passports to

prove that they're Japanese. No Japanese

person is ever gonna believe that they're

actually Japanese, even if they do speak

fluent native-level Japanese. Even Joey

the Anime Man constantly complains about

how people in Japan, Japanese people,

don't believe that he's Japanese or half

Japanese, or they're shocked or surprised

that he can speak Japanese. In one of his

recent videos, he interviews Hajime

Shacho, which is one of the most famous

YouTubers in Japan, and he pranks Hajime

Shacho pretending not to know how to speak

Japanese until halfway into the video.

Then he breaks out this fluent Japanese,

and Hajime Shacho's reaction to this is

kind of telling of the xenophobia in

Japanese society. Hajime Shacho says in

Japanese, and I'll directly translate this

into English, so it's going to sound kind

of weird and unnatural in English, but

directly translated into English,

basically what he says is, I can't believe

that someone with your face can speak

fluent Japanese. And this is because the

Anime Man, even though he's half Japanese,

he kind of looks very foreign because of

his hairstyle and his facial hair. So even

the Anime Man, who's half Asian, half

genetically Japanese, isn't seen or

accepted as a Japanese person by other

Japanese people. So my point is, there's

no way that PewDiePie's kid, who's going

to be 100% white, is ever gonna be

accepted as a Japanese person. There's a

video I also watched a while ago by a

channel by a guy called Max Capo, and he

interviews a white girl in her 20s who

grew up in the countryside of Japan, and

she does talk about how she grew up and

had difficulties fitting in. She talks

about how she tried really hard to fit in,

like having the same kind of Japanese

hairstyle with the fringe and having to

dye her blonde hair black because the

teachers wanted you to have black hair,

even though her natural hair color is

blonde or light brown. Something about

Japanese society that is very different to

Western societies is fitting in and

blending in with everyone else, not

standing out or sticking out. There's a

Japanese phrase that goes something like,

the sticking out nail gets hammered down.

Honestly, I think it's a little bit

selfish that PewDiePie and Marzia decided

to move to Japan and choose Japan as the

country to raise their children in. I know

they love Japan, they love anime and that

kind of stuff, and I'm sure they're

worshipped for being very

attractive-looking white people, but they

are adults living in an adult society.

The kid is going to have a completely

different experience growing up as a kid

and going to school and trying to make

friends. So as parents, they're going to

have a few options here. Number one, they

could send the kid to an English-speaking

international school, which is What a lot

of international couples do in Japan, and

especially people who work on the US Army

bases who have kids in Japan, they will

tend to send their kids to a very

expensive and privileged international

school, and the kid will make friends with

other English-speaking mixed kids or fully

white kids, and they'll grow up in this

kind of gaijin English-only bubble, which

I think is just going to make them feel

even more isolated, make them feel even

less of a Japanese person. If the kid gets

sent to an international school, I can

imagine that when he grows up, he's going

to want to go to an American or European

university. He might even want to move to

Sweden so that he's around his fellow

white people, in the same way that I

decided to move to Asia because I wanted

to be around my fellow Asian people.

Option number 2 would be they send the kid

to a normal Japanese school and the kid

tries to grow up as a normal Japanese kid,

which is going to be extremely difficult.

The kid is going to be the only white kid

in a 100% Japanese classroom. There's

going to be no other white kids probably,

and he or she is 100% going to be picked

on because they look so different to

everyone else. I can picture it already.

Can you just imagine it? They go to school

and all the other kids are like, haha,

look at so-and-so's blonde hair. Haha,

look at his blue eyes. Unfortunately,

that's just what kids are like all around

the world. They will pick on you if you

look different in any kind of way. If

you're too tall or too short or too fat or

too skinny. I was picked on because I look

Asian, I was really small, and I was

skinny. And imagine this kid of PewDiePie

growing up to have a lot of self-esteem

problems, maybe confidence problems and

self- image problems. The third option is

they just homeschool the kid and they get

very expensive private tutors and they

offer the kid, provide the kid with the

finest, the most expensive, best education

they can from the comfort of their own

home. And this will have all kinds of

different problems, like the kid will be

very shy and have social anxiety and not

have many friends because they're just at

home all the time. So I really hope

PewDiePie and Marzia have considered these

things and considered what it's going to

be like growing up in Japan as a kid that

is white. I think really it would have

been better if they move to Sweden or

maybe even Italy where at least one of the

parents is a native Swedish or native

Italian person, then at least the kid has

one parent that is a native to the country

they're born in. I also think it's kind of

funny that the number of white Japanese

people is probably going to increase

purely because of the number of YouTubers

moving to Japan and having kids with each

other. You notice how YouTubers often get

together with other YouTubers like Chris

and Sharla? If I ever have kids, I know

the kid's gonna look very Asian, so I

think it'll be best for the kid if he or

she grew up in Asia.