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Jul. 5th, 2008 06:17 pmHappy 4th of July, everyone!
(Today's Engrish message:
Justify My Love
Shorty
THE POWER OF EQUAL?
(Today's Engrish message:
Justify My Love
Shorty
THE POWER OF EQUAL?
Jul. 5th, 2008
In honor of Happy America Day...
Jul. 5th, 2008 10:10 pm...I'm about to do something I don't do often -- never have done before, in fact. I'm going to discuss ways that America is better than Japan.
Disclaimer: The following opinions are entirely my own, constructed according to my own value systems, and this inherently biased. I am not in any way intending to imply that one country is inherently overall superior to the other, nor that the US doesn't have plenty of problems of its own, nor that the positive aspects discussed are always properly or universally applied, nor that they don't have their own down sides.
I've often heard people say that America has no 'culture' of its own. And I've just as often said that no one could possibly say that with a straight face unless they've never spent extensive time in other cultures. Like any other immersive environment, the values and social culture of the U.S. are invisible to us, unless and until we step outside that environment to a place where things that we always take for granted, aren't. These are a few of them that I've identified.
( 1) Individuality )
( 2) Creativity )
( 3) Independence )
( 4) Equality )
( 5) Efficiency )
( 6) Diversity )
On a similar note, one of the things we're encouraged to do, as leaving JETs, is make lists of "things we will miss about Japan" and "things we'll be glad to go home to." I'll post the Japan list later, but in the meantime, here's a few things I'll be just ecstatic to get back to in the US:
( The List )
Disclaimer: The following opinions are entirely my own, constructed according to my own value systems, and this inherently biased. I am not in any way intending to imply that one country is inherently overall superior to the other, nor that the US doesn't have plenty of problems of its own, nor that the positive aspects discussed are always properly or universally applied, nor that they don't have their own down sides.
I've often heard people say that America has no 'culture' of its own. And I've just as often said that no one could possibly say that with a straight face unless they've never spent extensive time in other cultures. Like any other immersive environment, the values and social culture of the U.S. are invisible to us, unless and until we step outside that environment to a place where things that we always take for granted, aren't. These are a few of them that I've identified.
( 1) Individuality )
( 2) Creativity )
( 3) Independence )
( 4) Equality )
( 5) Efficiency )
( 6) Diversity )
On a similar note, one of the things we're encouraged to do, as leaving JETs, is make lists of "things we will miss about Japan" and "things we'll be glad to go home to." I'll post the Japan list later, but in the meantime, here's a few things I'll be just ecstatic to get back to in the US:
( The List )