Episode 148: M Nijiya
Gender Reveal
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How I Made Up My Last Name
Nijia in Japanese actually if you like one of the meanings behind it is actually rainbow family so my wife and I when we were talking we like my my heritage and my culture is really important to me. My grandparents they met in the internment camps and I feel like because of how they were raised they were brought to think like we have to be as American and as white as possible. They made sure that all of their kids even though they all had Japanese names they gave them all English names as their first names and then Japanese as their middle. We all had Japanese middle names and English first names and so when I changed my name I took my Japanese nameMy old last name
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