Leaving the country where you have spent most of your time growing up is not as easy as drinking a water, especially when you need to move and stay in another country for the rest of your life. It sounds so depressing and scary for me, until I did the interview of a person that immigrate to the United State for this assignment. The person that I interviewed was Kyori Anse. He used to live in the capital city of Japan, Tokyo. About 7 years ago, Kyori and his family migrated to the United States. He is holding a green card or a Permanent Resident to stay in the United States. He currently living in Long Beach, California, and attends the California State University of Long Beach as a senior student in Hospitality management major. I met him last
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It took some time for his father to finally decided to take the job offer and brought Kyori and the rest of his family to the United States. The reasons for his father moving to U.S. was that living in America was less stressful and it also has been well known for the education. Leaving Japan was a real hit for Kyori since he need to leave all his friends behind. Although he had learned English back in Japan, he was troubling for communicating with other people by the time he arrived in U.S. He argued that the English education in Japan was essential and not good enough, and this was the reason for many Japanese could not able to communicate in English. To improve his English language, Kyori took an ESL program in Long Beach City College. This was part of his effort to prepare for University and helping him to communicate with people. Beside perfecting his English, there was one other thing that helped Kyori to socialize in America, and it was skateboard. He already had an interest on skateboarding back when he was in high school at Japan, but he did not get into it until he moved to the United States. In addition, playing skateboard made him to meet new friends and build up a community for him. Now, skateboarding already being part of Kyori’s …show more content…
He was surprised that American people were more spoken up and love to share their thought in the middle of the lecture back when he was attending his first class in the University. It was a huge different compare to Japan, because the students over there were quiet most of the time. Kyori said that the people in Japan were not pleased to make mistake, especially in public, and they also had a high pride of their selves, which it usually known as shame culture. This has been part of Japan culture for a long time, and people still hold this believe up until now. One day in an English class, the teacher held an open debate assignment in the class which scared Kyori. This made him so nervous and he was scared to speak up and gave a wrong opinion. Therefore, he ended up not speaking on that debate which caused him to fail the debate. He regretted not to participate, but he believed that the shame culture was the reason that made him not as participative as the American students. Beside the shame culture, he also mentioned that back in Japan, the students were expected to remain quite while in the middle of lecture, and they would meet he teacher after class when you had a question. In the United States, the students could just raise their hand when they were facing trouble understanding the material and the
It took some time for his father to finally decided to take the job offer and brought Kyori and the rest of his family to the United States. The reasons for his father moving to U.S. was that living in America was less stressful and it also has been well known for the education. Leaving Japan was a real hit for Kyori since he need to leave all his friends behind. Although he had learned English back in Japan, he was troubling for communicating with other people by the time he arrived in U.S. He argued that the English education in Japan was essential and not good enough, and this was the reason for many Japanese could not able to communicate in English. To improve his English language, Kyori took an ESL program in Long Beach City College. This was part of his effort to prepare for University and helping him to communicate with people. Beside perfecting his English, there was one other thing that helped Kyori to socialize in America, and it was skateboard. He already had an interest on skateboarding back when he was in high school at Japan, but he did not get into it until he moved to the United States. In addition, playing skateboard made him to meet new friends and build up a community for him. Now, skateboarding already being part of Kyori’s …show more content…
He was surprised that American people were more spoken up and love to share their thought in the middle of the lecture back when he was attending his first class in the University. It was a huge different compare to Japan, because the students over there were quiet most of the time. Kyori said that the people in Japan were not pleased to make mistake, especially in public, and they also had a high pride of their selves, which it usually known as shame culture. This has been part of Japan culture for a long time, and people still hold this believe up until now. One day in an English class, the teacher held an open debate assignment in the class which scared Kyori. This made him so nervous and he was scared to speak up and gave a wrong opinion. Therefore, he ended up not speaking on that debate which caused him to fail the debate. He regretted not to participate, but he believed that the shame culture was the reason that made him not as participative as the American students. Beside the shame culture, he also mentioned that back in Japan, the students were expected to remain quite while in the middle of lecture, and they would meet he teacher after class when you had a question. In the United States, the students could just raise their hand when they were facing trouble understanding the material and the