Delighting in cultures : a vision of Japan's future
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Delighting in cultures : a vision of Japan's future
Kinseido, 2009
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世界の中の日本人と日本人の中の世界
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The Japan Timesに発表したエッセイを集めたもの。日本人の学生が読むにも相応しい内容のものを選び、英語もわかりやすく書き直され、日本での長い滞在中に経験した面白いエピソードを交えながら、日本人が外国人に対して抱いている偏見、日本人との相互理解の難しさなどを露わにしている。
Table of Contents
- ASSIMILATION—To be Japanese or not to be Japanese?
- THE WONDER OF TWO CULTURES—On being bilingual
- WHAT IS A JAPANESE—What does it mean to be “accepted”?
- NATIONAL CHARACTER—What changes and what doesn’t?
- THE TRUE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF JAPAN—Communicating with the world
- JAPANESE “CUSTOMS”—At your service
- ON TRYING TO BECOME A JAPANESE—My own case
- CONFORMING TO THE JAPANESE WAY—Once again,my own case
- THE NEW JAPANESE CONSCIOUSNESS—A rainbow of values
- JAPANESE FORMALITY—On motivation and gesture〔ほか〕
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