Recently, I am very busy because of preparation for the ICU festival!! I belong to the production bureau in ICU festival committee. There are only one month for the ICU festival so I work for it until 10 p.m. everyday. That's why I am always tired...
When people are tired, they need to rest. And in my case, I need someone who listen to me. If there is no one who listen to me, I will be sick. However, there are a lot of friends around me who listen to me!! They are in BB section, in ICU festival committee and so on. So I am tired but really happy to have such friends!! Thanks a lot everyone!!!
By the way, does everyone know the mean of my name?? My name is Tomoe and "Tomo" means "friends" and "e" means "blessing" in Chinese character. So when my parents named me, they wished for me that I can make a lot of good friends. And recently, I always feel my life is as well as my parents wished.
I want to help my friends like they do for me from now on.
2007年9月28日金曜日
2007年9月18日火曜日
Stereotypes
I went to Australia with SEA Program and in Australia, I experienced a lot of things.
I stayed with my host family for 6 weeks. And there were another 2 exchanged students. One of them is 28 year-old woman from Venezuela and she was so nice that I felt she was a real my older sister. The other is 35 year-old woman from China. She was a professor of fisheries college. And also at school, I made a lot of friends who are from various countries.
Before I went to Australia, I had stereotypes that Venezuelan people are messy and Chinese people are not so good. This is very bad stereotypes.... However, in fact, my Venezuelan house mate was so nice and she was not messy. After she used kitchen, she cleaned there and after she used washroom, she cleaned there so I could use very comfortable. So my stereotype was wrong. And also, I made a lot of Venezuelan friends through her and they were also very good and kind to me so my thought for Venezuelan people was changed into good impression. However, my Chinese house mate was very messy. She has long hair and every morning, she used washroom to wet her hair and wash her face and so on and when I enter washroom after she used, there were a lot of her hair and water. It was very unpleasant. In terms of this point, my stereotype toward the Chinese was not so wrong but I saw only her behaviour so I cannot say all of the Chinese are like her.
Through the SEA Program, I felt that only one person can make impression of that country. And the impression will connect to the stereotype. I have to behave carefully not to make bad impression of Japan to another countries' people especially when I am in foreign country. I think stereotypes are not so good because if the stereotypes are bad, we feel unpleasant to him or her and we escape to have connection with them. However, some of the stereotypes or most of them are wrong in some ways. So we shouldn't have stereotypes and we have to communicate a lot of people from all over the world to make us more good people.
I stayed with my host family for 6 weeks. And there were another 2 exchanged students. One of them is 28 year-old woman from Venezuela and she was so nice that I felt she was a real my older sister. The other is 35 year-old woman from China. She was a professor of fisheries college. And also at school, I made a lot of friends who are from various countries.
Before I went to Australia, I had stereotypes that Venezuelan people are messy and Chinese people are not so good. This is very bad stereotypes.... However, in fact, my Venezuelan house mate was so nice and she was not messy. After she used kitchen, she cleaned there and after she used washroom, she cleaned there so I could use very comfortable. So my stereotype was wrong. And also, I made a lot of Venezuelan friends through her and they were also very good and kind to me so my thought for Venezuelan people was changed into good impression. However, my Chinese house mate was very messy. She has long hair and every morning, she used washroom to wet her hair and wash her face and so on and when I enter washroom after she used, there were a lot of her hair and water. It was very unpleasant. In terms of this point, my stereotype toward the Chinese was not so wrong but I saw only her behaviour so I cannot say all of the Chinese are like her.
Through the SEA Program, I felt that only one person can make impression of that country. And the impression will connect to the stereotype. I have to behave carefully not to make bad impression of Japan to another countries' people especially when I am in foreign country. I think stereotypes are not so good because if the stereotypes are bad, we feel unpleasant to him or her and we escape to have connection with them. However, some of the stereotypes or most of them are wrong in some ways. So we shouldn't have stereotypes and we have to communicate a lot of people from all over the world to make us more good people.
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