I am half Japanese and half Italian. My mum's family all live in Japan, and anyway my Japanese grandmother is quite racist and she is quite open about her hatred for white people, black people and Koreans. I know that my parents marriage was kind of opposed like back in Japan and my mums parents didn't want my mum marrying an Italian, but they got over it and accepted it. My grandmother is really loving and also half raised me, because when I was a child I moved to Japan for 3 years and my mum had to work so during the day I was just with my grandmother and grandfather (grandfather is dead now).
Obviously I like my grandma, and she likes me too. But do you think she doesnt like the fact that I am half Italian? My dad is Italian but he's not exactly white though, he's from southern Italy and actually very tanned. She went on holiday once to Italy and she really liked the country. But I am just wondering, because she doesn't like white people do you think her visit to Italy changed her opinions at all? Last week my grandma called me and she told me she wants me to go to Japan in the holidays, and she said we should stay in Tokyo because she also knows I like Tokyo, and that I find her hometown quite boring (my mums family is from quite a smallish town and isnt very exciting).
But what do you think she thinks of my dad? I haven't really spoken to them about it because it is an awkward subject to bring up. But my grandmothers perception of white people is that they are dirty, unhygienic, loud, violent, have no honour, no respect and lazy. I don't think my dad fits any of those categories, but then I don't think most white people fit those categories either so maybe she does also think my dad is like that?
Also why is my grandmother racist anyway? Is it normal for most old people to be racist? I don't think my grandmother has much contact with non-Japanese people, all she does is she might see some tourists walking on the street and that is the most contact she has with foreigners, yet she still hates black people and white people. She doesn't like Koreans but she doesn't talk about them that much, it is mainly blacks and whites she has a problem with for some reason.