Talk:Crystal Kay
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Just wondering... why do people feel the need to include a comparison to Amerie in this article? Fadeblue 01:42, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
- Probably because their parentage is the same? chsf, 01:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] who is Adam Klimkowski?
I checked a bit, but couldn't understand why this name is referenced. Perhaps this line should be removed.
[edit] Official model of the video game character Lenne?
Other than the fact that both are songstresses, there is no futhur connection, not to mention that it was Koda Kumi who did the motion acting and singing for Lenne/ Yuna.
[edit] She is not American
She is being listed under several categories such as "Korean American" and "African American musician". At most, she is "Korean-Japanese" (i.e. Zainichi which is also already listed) and "African-Japanese". It is only her father who has a background of American nationality, so it is not accurate to place her in any *-American categories. The point to remember is that the first word describes ethnicity (African/Korean) while the second word describes nationality (Japanese). "American" does not apply anywhere. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.6.99.30 (talk) 10:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] She is DEFINATLEY American, among other things
Her biological father is African-American and has American citizenship, as he is a high ranked U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan (he may be retired). This makes her African-American, surely American by birth holding American citizenship. When U.S. Military personnel have children abroad, as long as it is documented, they are the equivalent of U.S. citizens born on American soil. Furthermore, when U.S. military personnel stationed abroad live on a U.S. military base, it's the equivalent of living in America, on American soil, despite the non-American surroundings. Subsequently, many people adopt the identity of the nation they are stationed in, whether or not they have a parent native to the region/culture. This happens a lot among military families.
Offspring of military personnel stationed abroad have a very unique disposition when in comes to linguistic, cultural and national identities, to the point where it's less dependent on the perception of others, but to their own choosing. Having a non-native born American parent makes this more interesting.
In part she has American cultural and linguistic heritage as she has never denied it and it has been part of her life through her father, his job function (which is most likely what brought him to Japan, from America, in the first place), and her paternal family (she mentioned having contact with them growing up in one of her interviews and often visiting the US. So, she embraces that side.).
Her African, sub-Saharan, ancestry is traced to the Americas, which means that she is a descendant of African Slaves and the potpouri of ethnic and non-socio racial mixing that has occured among their descendents over the past ~400 years, here in America. Certainly, this also makes her African despite the high probability that she has no recent direct cultural, tribal or liguistic ties to the continent aside from her distant ethnic ancestry and the western culture that evolved from the original African culture(s).
Her American ancestors shed blood, sweat, tears, suffered, fought and died for her right to be a citizen, a citizenship that should be carried with the bloodline no matter where the posterity is born or what other cultural or ethnic identies they come to inherit. How could one be denied US. citizenship when their parent's sole duty is to protect and safeguard this country? In my opinion, it SHOULD be by default that she and others like her have American citizenship, as the essence of this country was built on the backs of their ancestors.
She is American at best. In addition to being Korean, through her maternal ethnic and cultural heritage, she is also Japanese by birth, linguistic and cultural heritages.
She IS, affirmatively, all of the above:
- Racial Heritage: Asian, African-American;
- National Heritage: American, Korean (even though she is a 3rd generation political ex-communicate of Korea, she is still Korean by birth-right) , Japanese;
- Ethnic Heritage: African-American (which constitutes a varying mixture of anything from sub-Saharan African, Amerindian, Arabic, Semetic, Asian, European and a possible number of other non-socio races and ethnicities), Korean Zainichi.;
- Linguistic Heritage: English, Japanese, Korean;
- Cultural Heritage: American, African-American, Japanese, Korean Zainichi
If nothing else, the genre of music she performs is American. Her artform is American inspired!
Relir 12:23, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
- Not only that, the Japanese government legally considers her Korean-American (maybe), but certainly not Japanese. Removing cat. MSJapan 14:58, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
