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In other words, their parents and parents' parents have only married other Japanese people for generations and generations. This is in part due to their isolation from the rest of the world for thousands of years. It is very fun to be a foreigner in Japan. In Japan, one is either Japanese (Nihonjin) or a foreigner (Gaijin). If one visits Japan, he or she would most likely be called "Gaijin" several times. In this aspect, there is no differentiation made between the many foreign countries. To many Japanese, one is either Japanese or he is not. However, there are exceptions. Instead of calling all foreigners "Gaijin," some Japanese people call them "Amerikajin" (American), which angers foreigners who are from Europe or other countries. This happens because the Japanese hold the United States and its people in very high regard. In many ways they consider themselves inferior to Americans. On the other hand, the Japanese believe themselves to be superior to all other Asian nations. This can be seen by the way other Asians are treated in
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They were expected to stay at home and raise the children, along with fulfilling other household responsibilities, while their husbands went to work. Women were always supposed to be meek and submissive, always subservient to the men. However, in recent years, women have been leaving home to work and enjoy their own lifestyles in greater numbers. They are beginning to break the mold that Japanese society has made for them since ancient times.
The Japanese concept of religion would probably seem more like part of a culture to a westerner. The religious attitudes of most Japanese people today "seem to be basically of a pragmatic, rational, or scientific turn of mind" (Morton, 263). Although most people one talks to in Japan claim to be Buddhist, many of the same people also claim to be Shinto. "Japanese may employ Shinto rites when they marry and Buddhist funeral rites when they die" (Morton, 263). It has been Buddhism and Shinto that have contributed most to the Japanese understanding of themselves and the world around …show more content…
Japan is a country which is thousands of years older than the United States. Although one might think the Japanese seem to be nothing like Americans, they are outwardly very much the same. For example, the Japanese listen to music, watch movies, play sports, and go to work and to school the same way Americans do. But it is the "kokoro," which is the mind and soul, of a Japanese person that is truly different than that of an American. This "kokoro" is something that can not be easily explained or understood. It is an awareness which one slowly receives as he or she is truly immersed in the culture of the rising sun of
They were expected to stay at home and raise the children, along with fulfilling other household responsibilities, while their husbands went to work. Women were always supposed to be meek and submissive, always subservient to the men. However, in recent years, women have been leaving home to work and enjoy their own lifestyles in greater numbers. They are beginning to break the mold that Japanese society has made for them since ancient times.
The Japanese concept of religion would probably seem more like part of a culture to a westerner. The religious attitudes of most Japanese people today "seem to be basically of a pragmatic, rational, or scientific turn of mind" (Morton, 263). Although most people one talks to in Japan claim to be Buddhist, many of the same people also claim to be Shinto. "Japanese may employ Shinto rites when they marry and Buddhist funeral rites when they die" (Morton, 263). It has been Buddhism and Shinto that have contributed most to the Japanese understanding of themselves and the world around …show more content…
Japan is a country which is thousands of years older than the United States. Although one might think the Japanese seem to be nothing like Americans, they are outwardly very much the same. For example, the Japanese listen to music, watch movies, play sports, and go to work and to school the same way Americans do. But it is the "kokoro," which is the mind and soul, of a Japanese person that is truly different than that of an American. This "kokoro" is something that can not be easily explained or understood. It is an awareness which one slowly receives as he or she is truly immersed in the culture of the rising sun of