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.
posted by Snow @ 11:14 AM
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One of the beauties of this country is that multiple, conflicting, or racist ideology/nationalism which immigrants invariably carry over from their mother land becomes reconstructed as one body of diverse citizents under one nation. For instance, I saw this in my family. My brother dated a Japanese girl for 5-6 years with the intent of getting married. There was no nationalistic contention in their relationship, nor did my parents objected to this. As for me, knowing that I am a Korean by birth, couple of my former Japanese classmates, a while back, were afraid to approach me for help even though they were really lost in the class, until they realized that I was not about to bite them as my enemies. Such examples are abundant cross-culturally, here in America. For so long as we sustain the flow of multicultual dialogue and permit freedom of speech, all is possible in this country.
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