I, we, and you

If we try to fit in a multi-cultural society, who we have to know about is not only people from different backgrounds.
There are something I needed to be aware about people from my home country(!). If a Japanese born in US is called Japanese American, Japanese from Japan living in US could be called "Just-a-little-bit-American Japanese". And to what extend s/he is american depends on individuals. So what I need to see is "To what extent is s/he US person?". For example, let's see I sent an e-mail to somebody and I made a phone call to make sure if the e-mail was actually sent. A Japanese would say thank you for the phone call in this case. But (I feel) I should not make this kind of phone call to people from US, because it sounds like I am proding him/her to do something.

Sometime, it's hard to assume what people in the same origin are like. The grayzone of "Who are you?" is sometime tricky to handle.

Time management

I feel time management people here have is different from Japanese. Often, they say that people here are good at indivudual work, and Japanese are good at working in group. So I Japanese need to have different awareness about how to manage time and how to hang out people. When I see somebody who is alone, what I need to see is "Is s/he at indivudual mode, or hanging out mode?" I think it mostly works.

Korea & Japan

The immigrant issue reminded me the relationship between Japan and Korea. Though Korean pop culture is popular lately in Japan, my Korean-Japanese friend were talking about a best-seller book called "Anti-Korean", which made her uncomfortable. The problem is those book which claims facts to be true with nobody-knows resources become a best seller. This time, I really think Japanese education should emphasize finding out the primary resources like US.

The new law

Can't they go to the hospital??? It means they can't even survive!
Immigrants' situation is not good in Japan, either. If they are illegal, they just send them back to their home country. There is a law suits that a Japan-born female Korean worker protested. Even though she has worked almost 30 years as a public servant, the officials denied her to rise some higher position. And the judge either. There are always stupid politicians anywhere.