Manabi Ikiru wa Fuufu no Tsutome - Ch. 64

[MangaDex]

 

[Walter_vi_Britannia]

Wasn't she Russian?

Also, slave...I don't think any American would dare utter that word racist or not.

 

[Darklight99]

But she's russian

 

[BombKing]

@Darklight99 she IS russian, and transferred from USA,
she was born in Russia, and studied in the USA

 

[ComradeRoe]

Depends on the context, I can think of a few where Americans would say the word slave with ease.

Also https://mangadex.org/chapter/404212/1

She's half Russian half Finnish. Not really clear where she's born. In any case she came to Japan from the US.

 

[MrKawaii]

Russia- nevermind, everyone here was thinking the same thing.

 

[miyako19]

@BombKing The manga didn't say that she was born in Russia. It just said that she came from the US and is half-Russian half-Finnish, so she can be a Russian-Finnish American. Her parents might came to the US and gave birth to her there, making her an American.

 

[QualityApologiesTL]

Ponya grew up in America. That is where Oto and Ponya met both as kids and again as teenagers. The RAW explicitly calls Ponya American here. I don't think the Manga ever explicitly tells us her legal citizenship, but she's culturally American.