2009年5月25日月曜日

About Culture


In the wide world there are a variety of countries and a diversity of lifestyles so there is a particular culture in each country. People are surprised when they visit to another country. For example, they are surprised by difference of food, language, and so on.
Sometimes people get a culture shock when they go to abroad and eat there because their dietary habit is different as their country. For example, usually Japanese are using chopstick when eat and Europeans and Americans are eat with knife and fork so some countries are using something, but some countries, for example in India Indian are not using chopstick or knife and fork. They use their hand. It’s a difference of food culture. There are many type of food in the world, for example European food, Asian food and so on. Between these countries have different food cultures. For example, some countries don’t eat beef and some the other countries eat insect. These are difference of food culture too.
In the world there are many languages of each country. Chinese is spoken in China. French is spoken in France. Japanese is spoken in Japan. These languages are quite different and It is difference of language culture. Also even in Japan there are many different dialect of each prefecture so even I’m Japanese I can’t understand another prefecture’s dialect. Also it is difference of language culture between each prefecture in Japan.

2009年5月24日日曜日

About Trying Everything


It is important for parents to teach their children about trying everything. Sometimes my mother teaches to me about many things, for example the importance of life, friendship, work, trying everything and so on. These things are assist me when I run into a problem. Especially the importance of trying everything is most important I think.
To try all the time is very hard even if you like to do that. In fact, when I was a high-school student, I was member of the basketball club. I like to play basketball but the practice was really pretty hard so I decided to leave the club, but my mother said, “Don’t give up yet, you must keep trying till the very end.” Then I thought if I stopped to make an effort it would not achieve anything. According to her words, I realized to give up halfway is an escape and it’s not good for me.
People are living and having many problems but they don’t give up half way. They are positive and try to do everything. I learned from my mother to keep trying in everything makes me develop as a person.