A Winter in Bath, 1796-97: Life Writing and the Irish Adolescent Self

The diary form affords multiple generations of women with a vehicle for expressing themselves, and is particularly germane to younger writers, developing a voice, and shaping a sense of self as they emerge from childhood. Charting her travels from Ireland to Bath, the manuscript diary (1796–97) of Charity Lecky is exceptionally useful in exploring intersections with other genres, particularly the novel, while also affording us with an adolescent’s observations on life, and on Bath as international marriage market. The categories of youth, gender, and nation all play strong roles in Charity’s evolving sense of self, and enable us to explore these intersections and how they can inform a young person’s sense of worth. Frequently dismissed by male contemporaries as preoccupied only with balls and marriage prospects, the voices of such figures were repeatedly marginalised. This article prioritises both these voices and the diary form itself, and fuses their legitimate interest in courtship with a concern and fascination with national identity, recognising the value of young women’s opinions, and demonstrating how we might better understand the evolution of personal identities through inclusion of such source material.

From a deadlock conflict of multiracial to Exploratory Factors Analysis on nationality decision making of Thai-Japanese multiracial group in Thailand

Identity value and nationality status are the sensitive issues which could lead to country problems. Also, Society awareness, racism, and discrimination to traveler, refugee, migrant, and multiracial are the major problems of international community. Mostly, there are few countries have revealed the data of this group in official report such as Thailand and Japan because of the complexity of national act ,policies and also the characteristic of society awareness meanwhile the number of people in this group tends to increase parallel with the number of long-stay tourist, refugee to international marriage. According to Tokyo Legal Affair Bureau is not allowed people to have dual nationality. The decision of their nationality will be forced indirect by law at age of 22 years old. According to Japan Times 2019 surveyed from 1,449 multiracial Japanese recipients in Japan, 76.8% refused to renounce citizenship, 76.8 using two passports, and 93.2% asking to change of nationality act. These issues could impact from the top to down country structure and international conflict as well. Keywords: multiracial,factor,nationality

Visualizing “International” and Korean-Japanese Marriage in Print Media

This chapter discusses married life and the sensationalization of interracial marriages in print culture, and examines “international” marriages in newspapers and magazines, including Yŏsŏng (Women). It explains how the print media embraced “internationally” married couples as celebrities in the mid-1930s, specifically couples that consisted of Korean and non-Korean or non-Japanese partners. It also explores essays and interviews featured in the magazine Naisen ittai, looking at descriptions of the married life of Korean–Japanese couples. The chapter illustrates the ways the international marriage discourse strengthened the already widespread desire for Western-style homes and emphasizes the cosmopolitan impulses of this desire. It argues that the sensationalist stories and essays that contributed to the “sweet home” discourse accommodated and strengthened the Korean–Japanese intermarriage ideology by creating a new cosmopolitan model of “intimacy” for all forms of intermarriage.