I know that eventually, I’ll stumble upon the right person who is just quirky enough to embrace all these different facets of what makes me who I am — someone who accepts me and doesn’t flinch at my complexity. But until then, I urge people to reflect on their own biases they may have unconsciously developed due to how the media and society portray us. Not all of us are what the movies and TikTok make us out to be.

Society often resorts to pasting labels onto different kinds of people in an attempt to simplify human behavior and make uncomplicated explanations for things that are often difficult to understand.

Twenty-year-old Ariana Miyamoto is a lot of things. A stunningly beautiful model. The first ever mixed-race winner of Miss Universe Japan. A Nagasaki native and Japanese citizen. And, now, the victim of...

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