A swedish woman asks college students if she can be a man and then asks if she can be Japanese. Double-think ensues.

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[–]denverkris 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

She could have been Japanese though.

Really?

[–]Lapis_Lazuli 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Japan is not generous about granting citizenship, but it is possible to become a Japanese citizen, especially if you marry into it. It's also theoretically possible—not likely, but possible—that she could have been adopted by a Japanese family as a child and grown up in Japan, learned Japanese as a first language, experienced Japanese culture as her native culture, and so on.

[–]denverkris 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And she still would not be ethnically Japanese, which I think was the point here.

[–]Lapis_Lazuli 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, but I think a person who is legally and culturally Japanese could very reasonably say "I am Japanese" even if she were not ethnically Japanese. (I grant you that people who meet this description are rare, but they do exist; I have met one.) Pinning down ethnicity and nationality can be complex—people immigrate, people hold dual citizenship, people come from mixed-ethnicity backgrounds. With rare exceptions for intersex people, sex is always straightforward.