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Her father who is planning to get married with a sense of discrimination against the tribe

I have a girlfriend who is planning to get married.
She is a very unbelievably good girlfriend for me, and she is important to her.

They are now living together for half, and when I told each other's parents that they would get married, it seems that her father told me the address of my parents' house. I think it's because I can roughly tell if they are discriminated against by buraku discrimination based on their parents' occupations and the house they live in.

When I heard that story, I didn't understand buraku discrimination at all, and when I looked it up, I learned that there are regions that are taught and regions that aren't taught even in morality classes.
It was probably an area where I wasn't taught.

I myself think discrimination itself is bad, just like anachronistic buraku discrimination, and I'm disgusted. However, I had never faced such a thing until now, and this was my first time running into it, so I was upset.

I'm on very good terms and compatibility with my girlfriend, and even when I went to her house to greet her, I thought they were normal parents, but it's very infuriating, or rather fuzzy, to be asked for my address and occupation and being evaluated for my parents' house, which is not my own.

She herself has never had that kind of awareness, and she says that if it were my parents' house and I, they would take me, but I don't think she can break the relationship with her parents' house even if she wants to break up.

But I really don't like it when I think they're being looked at me like that, and I want to make it clear by asking them directly.

However, since she's her father, I can't say it very strongly, and since it's before marriage, I think it's better not to be disliked, so I don't know how I should feel in the future.

My true intention is that I don't want to have any relationships with people who have such a sense of discrimination, and I want to keep my distance.
However, I'm in a situation I can't put myself in, so I want you to tell me how to have feelings and thoughts and perspectives to ease my hazy feelings.

Thank you for your support.

4 Zen Responses

Father himself is a victim of the environment he grew up in

There are many cases where wrong values are instilled by the environment you grew up in.
Father himself may have been a victim who was brainwashed in the old days.
I'll take a look at it with mercy.

Live an equal life without discrimination or prejudice

I read it.
I think your ideas are really valuable.

There is still such foolish discrimination and prejudice in the world, society, and the world.

I would like you to move forward with your future life by thinking about how it is good for you to live while knowing that there are such foolish thoughts and values.

The real wisdom is as you think, so please practice living an equal life without discrimination or prejudice.

I wholeheartedly support you.

Everyone is at risk of becoming a discriminator

 Two people have already answered, so I'm not going to talk about their way of thinking. Let me just talk a little bit about the history of discrimination.

When I was in high school, I watched the movie “River Without a Bridge,” and understood how the organization “National Heisensha” was formed to oppose discrimination against buraku in the Taisho period. (Heisei-sha Shrine is also written in high school Japanese history, but there is no detailed description.) In the Edo period, both the shogunate and the Han dynasty placed their status under agriculture, industry, and commerce. In the Meiji period, the “Emancipation Order” was issued, and discrimination disappeared. However, there were descriptions of “warrior class” and “civilians” in family registers until before the war, and “new civilians” were written in the family registers of discriminated tribes.
Furthermore, although discrimination is different from the buraku issue, there used to be a law called the “Hokkaido Old Indigenous People Protection Law.” It seems that “old indigenous people” were listed in the family registers of people with Ainu culture. This law was repealed in 1997. It's definitely not an old story.

When I joined a university sign language club in Showa 58, my senior in the circle said, “Until recently, groups of deaf people have been fighting over civil law revisions.” I was surprised to hear that. I was in a hurry and opened the Rikuho Zensho. Until a few years ago, according to Section 11 of the Civil Code, “hearing-impaired or visually impaired persons” were quasi-prohibited birth persons (persons who received a declaration from the Family Court to the effect that they were equivalent to prohibited workers due to mental exhaustion or wasteful habits). It was regarded as”. I wasn't able to use a mortgage or take over the family business just because I had that kind of handicap. It was revised in Showa 54 due to a long-standing movement of groups of people with hearing impairment and visual impairment.

No one affirms discrimination. When it comes to what kind of efforts should be taken to eliminate discrimination, there are various realities of administration, local communities, and education. I honestly don't know what the correct answer is. I think it's difficult to derive a correct answer that everyone can agree with. But we must continue to make efforts to lead.
Her father was imprinted with biased ideas in the environment where she was born and raised. Everyone has the potential to fall into that kind of situation. Other than the buraku discrimination issue, there are many discrimination issues, and we must not clean up the past and what is over. It seems that bullying and discrimination against people infected with COVID-19 has also occurred. Let's make an effort so that we can learn the right information correctly and make the right decisions.

even if you don't get married...

 It must have been very painful to be snooped by her parents. I sincerely apologize.
Well, I have experience too. It's not me, but let's say I'm a close relative. My partner's parents were very concerned about the fact that my house was a temple when we got married, and it seems that they weren't positive about getting married. So the two families met at the wedding, but surprisingly, they didn't meet at all. It seems that they started seeing their grandchildren at the end of the year.
In the first place, there is a tradition in Japan that the marriage system itself is about building relationships between families. It is also true that there is a trend of trying to improve the home by marrying someone with a superior status or social status in order to raise the rank of that house. Marriage registration is monogamous, and although it is not compulsory, surnames are also changed, and it is also true that overseas marriage and same-sex marriage procedures are difficult.
This is just my opinion. As much as many things are said about marriage from now on, I don't think it's necessary to get married or file a registration. Her father is going to be told a lot of things from now on. If that's the case, “I'm not going to get married. But I will cherish her for the rest of my life.” It makes it much more refreshing to say that.
You will inevitably end up in a fight, but please check your parents' feelings and your girlfriend's parents' feelings separately from good to bad first. Your girlfriend's feelings and your feelings may be different, so it's also important to report them in front of everyone.
Once we get married, we stay together 24 hours a day. There is 1 TV, bath, and toilet. The food I like is different. The sense of taste is different. The sense of time is also different. The way we feel stress is also different. It's different when you want to be alone. There are times when you can do activities at night and there are times when you can't. and so on. How much difference in sense of life do you acknowledge? Patience can be tolerated is the real enemy of life after marriage.
Marriage will change in the coming era.
・A consent form is required for sexual intercourse even with a married couple without the consent of the person in question. It's not a drama, but an era has come where rules must be written.
・Graduation party ⇒ graduating from marriage. The children have come of age and have reached retirement age, and somehow a milestone has been reached in the role of a married couple, so let's live a life without interfering with each other from now on.
・Life is different even if you get married. They don't like it, but they live separately from each other without interfering with each other. A shared house-like marriage.
This is happening in real life. There's a sense of incongruity. The forms of marriage are now falling apart. Please refer to that too.