Daughter

'our daughters' Jeremiah 35:8

There are many good things about Japanese and British cultures. But at a Japanese state school, my daughter is learning virtually nothing about England. Nearly 6 years of full time education here and she cannot speak English apart from what I myself have taught her in my own time. Multicultural education it is not. She seems to have picked up racism against Chinese people which she did not learn from me. The only good things- she is fluent in Japanese, and she seems to have many friends (all Japanese).

It is breaking my heart watching it happen. I feel she has been stolen from me. The simple British pleasure of strolling to the chip shop and sharing a meal- gone. My daughter hardly knows what fish and chips tastes like.

In appearance she will never pass as fully Japanese. And yet she is being taught virtually nothing about her true identity as British and Japanese. In fact the Government will make her choose one nationality when she comes of age- dual citizenship is not recognised here. The message is clear- assimilate or leave. It feels like cultural rape.