日系アメリカ人や日系ブラジル人の方を見ると不思議な気持ちになる。見た目は自分と似ているし、ルーツも元々同じなのに育った文化や話す言語も全く違う。 だけど同じ日本にルーツがあるというだけで、勝手に親近感を覚えてしまう。 もし自分の祖先が渡米なりして、海外で育った日系アメリカ人だったなら、私はどんな人間になっていたのだろう。 彼らも私と同じように、「もし日本で生まれ育っていたら？」と考えたりするのかな。 When I see Japanese-American or Japanese-Brazilian people, I have strange feelings. They look similar to me, have the same roots as mine, but their culture and languages are totally different from mine. However, just because they and I are both ethnically Japanese, I feel familiar with them in spite of myself. If my ancestor had moved overseas and I had been born and grown up in another country, what type of person would I have been? I'm sure I'd be totally different. Do Japanese-American, Japanese-Brazilian people think like I do, like "Hey, what if I was born and grown up in Japan?".