Not Hufu — Haafu. And a Most Generous Offer.
By Jai-Ling on Mar 12, 2009 in Japanese Food
While it sounds like the soy protein substitute that tastes like human flesh (it’s what’s for dinner), haafu is the Japanese term for half-Japanese.
Like so many other English words, “half” was appropriated into the Japanese language from English. While the Japanese historically held foreigners at an arm’s length or tried to block them out of the country entirely, J-List owner and blogger Peter Payne observes that if the face has some familiarity, the Japanese are more apt to accept them.
As examples, he points to TV personalities Helene Hayama and Crystal Takizawa both half-Japanese and half-Caucasian. Even the doll Licca, more popular than Barbie, sports Eurasian features and no doubt sets a whole different sort of beauty-based neurosis in motion for the Japanese girls that play with it.
Of course, for our purposes there’s AV Idols Maria Ozawa and Cecil Fujisaki.
Obviously, the message here is that haafus are good looking. So, out of the generosity of my own heart, I would like all women to know that I would be more than happy to make sure their kids don’t need to know the burden of being ugly with a donation of my sperm.
As an old fashioned kind of guy, I insist the insemination be done the old fashioned way. In fact, I’m willing to spend as much time as necessary to get it right.
That’s just the kind of giving guy I am.
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