We had a visitor in today's class. She was from not Monbukagakusho but a publishing company. I'm very interested in how she will write about ICU.
In class we discussed assumptions in some examples and how we would adapt to lifestyles of other countries where our assumption doesn't make any sense.
Which do you choose, keeping your identity(custom, religion, lifestyle) or fitting into new environment?-This is a very difficult question. I don't want to change my style and custom as much as possible, so I will shave my legs in Italy. but when it comes to religious or legal matter, that is another, more serious problem. I think Japanese people can more easily throw identity away and adapt to new things because they tend to act the same way as people surrounding you do, and almost all of them don't have strong belief. Identity of Japanese people is vague and fragile. I have to think how I establish identity as Japanese and deal with new, foreign things keeping identity in my mind.
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