Sometimes, I Wonder How I Ended Up Here

Characters: Jihoon x female reader

Genre/warnings: werewolf au, familiar au, fantasy, this isn’t really fluffy but it’s not really angsty either??? kinda slice of life-y?????

Word count: 1,827

Summary: Jihoon’s never really been considered a warm or affectionate person. His pack teases him about what it’ll be like when he finally gets a mate, but he doesn’t worry about it. Little do they know that his mate is a lot closer than they think.

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a/n: things in bold are in mandarin

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Jennie, offended: You think I’m only worth $10,000?!

Villain: What?

Jennie: Give me that *Takes megaphone*

Jennie: MAKE IT ONE BILLION DOLLARS

His wife, Yukiko, was also a part of this; she is often credited with suggesting the plan. The Sugihara family was held in a Soviet POW camp for 18 months until the end of the war; within a year of returning home, Sugihara was asked to resign - officially due to downsizing, but most likely because the government disagreed with his actions.

He didn’t simply grant visas - he granted visas against direct orders, after attempting three times to receive permission from the Japanese Foreign Ministry and being turned down each time. He did not “misread” orders; he was in direct violation of them, with the encouragement and support of his wife.

He was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations in 1985, a year before he died in Kamakura; he and his descendants have also been granted permanent Israeli citizenship. He was also posthumously awarded the Life Saving Cross of Lithuania (1993); Commander’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1996); and the Commander’s Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2007). Though not canonized, some Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize him as a saint.

Sugihara was born in Gifu on the first day of 1900, January 1. He achieved top marks in his schooling; his father wanted him to become a physician, but Sugihara wished to pursue learning English. He deliberately failed the exam by writing only his name and then entered Waseda, where he majored in English. He joined the Foreign Ministry after graduation and worked in the Manchurian Foreign Office in Harbin (where he learned Russian and German; he also converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church during this time). He resigned his post in protest over how the Japanese government treated the local Chinese citizens. He eventually married Yukiko Kikuchi, who would suggest and encourage his acts in Lithuania; they had four sons together. Chiune Sugihara passed away July 31, 1986, at the age of 86. Until her own passing in 2008, Yukiko continued as an ambassador of his legacy.

You want to know about my motivation, don’t you? Well. It is the kind of sentiments anyone would have when he actually sees refugees face to face, begging with tears in their eyes. He just cannot help but sympathize with them. Among the refugees were the elderly and women. They were so desperate that they went so far as to kiss my shoes, Yes, I actually witnessed such scenes with my own eyes. Also, I felt at that time, that the Japanese government did not have any uniform opinion in Tokyo. Some Japanese military leaders were just scared because of the pressure from the Nazis; while other officials in the Home Ministry were simply ambivalent.

People in Tokyo were not united. I felt it silly to deal with them. So, I made up my mind not to wait for their reply. I knew that somebody would surely complain about me in the future. But, I myself thought this would be the right thing to do. There is nothing wrong in saving many people’s lives….The spirit of humanity, philanthropy…neighborly friendship…with this spirit, I ventured to do what I did, confronting this most difficult situation—and because of this reason, I went ahead with redoubled courage.

The stone next to him bears a quote from the Talmud; “He who saves one life, saves the entire world.”  

It is perfect!

Even ones for the specific areas in the LGBT community 

How the fuck is this any different? Why is it everytime black people come up with something for themselves y'all have to come out with this show your entire asses with this “"segregation” shit. 

•Recognize the fact that many black people are a part of the LGBT community and that it’s not just white people who can be gay, bi, etc.

•Acknowledge the black men and women that have been victims of hate crimes

•Include black women in your feminism

•If a black person calls you out over something racist that you’ve said, don’t say “Well actually...” or “My black friend says...” Just don’t. If you’re getting called out for something, it’s for a reason.

•Don’t speak over us.

•Don’t act like you know better than we do about our own history and/or culture

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

This is essentially why I fucking hate the “cultural appropriation” narrative.  Culture only survives and thrives when it’s shared, and being called racist for sharing in someone else’s culture (while also being expected to share my own) is stupid, unhelpful, and wrong.  

the idea that culture only survives if it’s shared with outsiders is a lie. Culture survives and thrives within communities when those communities aren’t constantly faced with colonization and forced into assimilation. The thing about cultural sharing is that you have to be invited to join in or else it’s not sharing, it’s stealing and misappropriation.

Cultural sharing looks like native Americans letting outsiders come to their celebrations and allowing you to enjoy an share in their traditions. You must then leave those traditions when you leave that space. You shouldnt start wearing native garb and hosting your own pow wows. Buy some memorabilia, put it on your mantel, and then leave it alone.

Cultural sharing looks like black People inviting you to a step show. You share in our enjoyment and then you leave. You leave those traditions when you leave that space. You don’t go home and try to teach your own sorority a step or a stroll in some new box braids.

The problem is not white people wearing kimono, alone. The problem is white people wearing a kimono while at the same time Japanese diaspora people are sexually harassed and socially forced to not wear kimono. 

I’ve come to the depressing conclusion that most white people will only really listen to other white people on the issue. And there are two main (wrong) ways for them explain it to other white people:

The personal purity way. Being a “good ally” means not doing certain things, whether or not they make sense. We used to get all sorts of questions like “is it OK to eat cereal with chopsticks” that were completely irrelevant and annoying to answer after about the tenth time.

The anti-personal-purity way, in which “cultural appropriation” is for SJWs and it’s a joke concept to be laughed at. People of color are whiners and any white person who listens to them is a loser.

The power-based definition of cultural appropriation has been around for a very long time. It has numerous powerful explanatory essays, books (”Everything but the Burden” is a good one), and economic analyses (for example the material cost to fashion companies stealing indigenous artwork and copyrighting it so the indigenous people are locked out of the market). It’s not new, or trendy, but the reaction against the concept and the deformation into a standard of personal purity is definitely new and really troubling.

I’m willing to talk with people about solutions, but I stop listening as soon as someone says, “culture is meant to be shared.” Fuck no it isn’t! People think they can lay down rules for “culture” when they can’t even explain what definition they’re using. What they really mean is, “I should be free to take what I want from any culture without entering into a dialogue with people from that culture, because that kind of dialogue is too messy and scary and I’d rather not deal with the people as a whole, just the things they produce.”