Amazing interview. Justin seems more grounded and understanding of his identity and the cultures that best suit him. I also sense he has high EQ which allows him to interact with people because of his intuition of people. Very cool interaction and discussion.

My long time Sensei in Aikido in conversations after practice , over sake, who had experienced many of these cultural adjustments said the identity crisis is very much like surfing. You get out there,, try to read the swells , find a good curl, paddle like crazy, stand up and ride the wave, feel the thrill , adjust, micro adjust , learn to enjoy all the sensations battering at you from every direction and just when you think you have mastered an ocean of culture it pops you up and tumbles you onto the sand after trying to drown you. He said: "If you learn to enjoy the ride, absorb what it teaches you, it can make you see the ocean (the culture, the country, the people) as a friend, a teacher, and not an enemy." Kampai!

Thanks to the both of you for a thoughtful and illuminating conversation. I know that Justin mentioned that he feels like he has been influenced by and identifies with multiple cultures, such as Japanese, American, UK and Singapore. I totally agree with him on the point that with the advent of the internet and globalisation, increasingly many people are going to be able to identify with more than one culture and be comfortable with more than one cilture. Just my personal opinion, but if Justin has served National Service in Singapore, he is always welcome in Singapore, wherever in the world he chooses to stay that he feels the most comfortable. He always seems to have served as an officer, which is more challenging than the normal experience. There are pros and cons to National Service, which is a totally seperate story. I hope that if Justin flies on SIA and is landing at Changi Airport, he knows that the "welcome home" message also applies to him. All the best, Justin. お元気でね 😄

Very interesting and insightful. Growing up in Hong Kong, spent my teenager years in the US and Canada, travelled to Japan very often for work and leisure and now having a family in the UK, I can completely relate to Justin's statement about UK being "a nice middle ground."

Thank you for sharing-I’m learning so much from your channel! Joshua, I love hearing your perspective and quite like your interviews. Justin, I appreciate your eloquence and insights!

I have never listened to such an interesting and in depth discussion on identity and culture and personal experience,Well done and also to Justin showing what aware and cognoscente and intelligent human being he is!!!

Very interesting from beginning to end. Thanks much

Really interesting!! Thanks for sharing this!!

Thoroughly enjoyed this stimulating discussion 😁

ジャスティンはロンドンでまだ気楽に心地良く暮らせているかな？ 自分の元教え子でアメリカに長く住んでいた子達が日本を離れてロンドンに流れています。「アメリカは(経験したから)ひとまずは良いかな。」と言う子達もいます。

Fascinating video, Joshua. I don’t know where you find all there interesting people. My parents are immigrants to the uk so I guess I’m a TCK.

Thanks for this video! Another great interview following the one you had with your cousin in the US. Look forward to more of these cross-cultural talks.

Amazing dialogue!!!! Very interesting and I totally agree with Justin that in this globalized world somehow someway we all can relate to this mixness

非常に面白かったです。クロスカルチャーは人間を幅広くさせてくれますよね!

Absolutely intriguing interview. Both Joshua and Justin explain their experiences so concisely and it’s been really interesting to watch and learn. My question for Joshua is: Where do you perform acting and modeling most-Japan, UK, USA? May I ask how tall you are and if you are taller than most of your peers in the industry in the nation(s) where you work? Question for Justin: Do your parents (and grandparents, possibly) have a strong sense of pride in being Singaporean or did they emigrate to Japan with a sense of leaving behind all things related to their homeland? Do you and your family hold dual citizenship or is that not allowed in Japan or maybe Singapore? My son-in-law comes from a family that is kind of third culture inasmuch as both parents were born in the US and lived there at least half their childhoods but their families were citizens of Switzerland (dad) and Germany (mom). Then, they returned to those nations as teenagers but still spoke English at home as their primary language and when they met and later married, they raised their children with a more Western cultural influence and continued to speak English at home. They obviously speak Swiss German and high German fluently when not at home and my son-in-law has triple citizenship and passports from three nations. Are you and Joshua able to hold multiple citizenships if you wished to? What is the law?

Yeah, really interesting content, Joshua. I thought I’d have reverse cultured shock after return to Blighty but surprisingly it didn’t happen..🤔

great video👍

Really interesting

I'm grateful when the magic words "military brat" and "mixed kid" can help someone immediately understand why my sense of identity and home is a bit of this and that (so give me space / leave me alone! haha). I'm not fond of backhanded compliments that applaud a skill or trait that's entirely natural to me (as if they are the gatekeeping authority granting me belonging/ownership), or that compare me favorably to . It can make me feel self-conscious/"othered", and I adore lots of kinds of peoples and don't feel these kinds of Us vs Them stereotyped divisions in my heart, so I feel the need to defend whomever was being stereotyped. Like Justin mentioned, people should be cherished as individuals! Sometimes we feel a sense of belonging within a group and sometimes we don't, and in between, we belong to the group human beings as we also belong to our own selves. At the end of it all, we're all worm food for the alien overlords, so please, choose loving kindness over pride. Out of the many awkward interactions I've had, the most shocking was at a cultural festival (where you'd expect attendees to be more open-minded, right?), while talking my friends' native language and dressed in traditional clothing as we were preparing for a celebratory dance performance, this elder stranger singled me out for my differing phenotype and told me my family would be so pleased if I focused on my "own culture". Bahaha I wonder how offended the dude would have been earlier to see my friends lined up so I could help them with their clothing (b/c they value how I can tie it just right so it's floofed the ideal way and STAYS that way all through our vigorous movements). Or the day before, when we gathered in our aprons with our cutting tools, preparing ingredients for the festival foods! Look at me, existing and being helpful with my sweet friends; be offended, be very offended!

this was really interesting. i guess im technically a third culture kid too.

very interesting

We all might have a better country to fit in than where we are living, based on our personality even though we are not TCK😮

おお！？軍役経験者💪💪💪👍👍👍👍👍 関西弁〜関西はあまり行ったことないのになぜか自分も日常的に自然と言ってしまうこの頃……ただ自分のは群馬のとミックスなので単なるパクリで別物ですが💦

Although he has a Singapour nationality, does he have malay roots or chinese roots？ will that part also have some influence on his life? Very great video!

I was so struck in this one by how British Justin feels to me, whereas Joshua doesn’t (as much). Justin just seems completely British and if I met him it wouldn’t occur to me that he had lived anywhere else. It’s not just his accent but his body language and also his phrasing - in the latter case that’s not specifically British but just seems so like a native speaker. But I’m consciously trying to see Joshua as British too. It’s not fair for someone to be othered everywhere. If anyone wants to be British, or partially so, that’s fine by me.

To me, the odd thing is you can easily turn on accents. Talking to the American girl, your had zero hints of a British accent, to me it sounded like a California accent... in this video, talking to a "Singaporian" that would most probably learn British English, you sound way more British to me. It's a classic "code-switching" example to me, it happens in America as well. The very telling thing to me is your affirmative "mmm, mmm, mmm" and "yeah, yeah, yeah" while the other person is talking... which would tell me that you grew up in Japan and Japanese is the language you learned the most basic things in. I have a very close Ethiopian-Italian friend that grew up in Rome and learned English from an Australian teacher. It made me realize that how we speak is NOT a reflection of where we're from, but how we learned a specific language.

Japanese is ethnicity through blood line so there are westernized Japanese and very traditional Japanese as well. It is so weird to me that some foreigners think that they are Japanese without any blood line. Nootbaar the major leager who is half Japanese and half American raised in the US only able to speak English is ethnic Japanese through his maternal blood line. It really does not matter if he is fluent in Japanese or not or if he is raised in Japan or not. Japanese is blood line. There are increasing number of quarter Japanese who look so white having blue eyes and blonde hair in Europe. Their mothers are half Japanese so they are teaching their kids the Japanese and Japanese culture in Europe. They are ethnic Japanese and do have the Japanese passport since they have Japanese blood line. I am not sure how far down the line would they be allowed to hold the Japanese passport in Europe while having the European passports as well. BTW foreigners who acquired the Japanese citizenship will be treated as Japanese in law.