The preparation of presentation

    Ok, l will talk about the marriage inequality in Japan. Let’s check this chart again.

    First, I want you see the individualism part.Japan scores is 46. Certainly Japanese society shows many of the characteristics of a collectivistic society: such as putting harmony of group above the expression of individual opinions and people have a strong sense of shame for losing face. That’s why Japanese even don’t come out to their coworker, except close friends. They don’t want to be different to others and always want to stay in a group. In Japanese, they have a word “hitonami”. It means behaving as same as other people.

   Second, Japan is one of the most Masculine societies in the world. Japanese guys are told that guys should behave like a guy, so male should marry with female like everybody does. As I mentioned before, “hitonami”.It’s a good thing in Japanese culture.

    Last but not least, Japan,with a low score of 42 in indulgence , is shown to have a culture of Restraint. People living in this culture have the perception that their actions are Restrained by social norms and feel that indulging themselves is somewhat wrong. Falling in love with same-sex people is the thing that should be restrained.

   Just move on the religion part.By looking this chart, we can know in Japan, the main religions are shindou and Buddhism. In shinto, they treat sexual love between 2 guys as  unconditional good. It is allowed. In the Tokugawa period, some Shinto gods―among them Tenjin, Hachiman,and Myoshin, and Shinmei―came to be seen as protecting gods of nanshoku. In Buddhism, they treat sexual love between 2 guys as phenomenon.

   

  In Japan, the frist step toward marriage equality are being taken in Shibuya.And the other places Setagaya,Iga,Takarazuka,Naha. They offer same-sex couples special partnership certificates.Still not equal to marriage certificates.But it is a useful tool in civil matters such as hospital visitation rights.

sources:

(1)https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=a6q-PqPDAmIC&pg=PA32&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

(2)https://www.geert-hofstede.com/japan.html

(3)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Japan

Feedback of presentation

GQ:

Keep:

(1)nice graphs

(2)I didn’t know how religion affects marriage in Japan.

(3)The topic was currently contuvercial(I can’t read this word) in Japan, which was very interesting

(4) character analysis

(5)I’m interested in Japanese inequality

(6)Many information can cover your presentation very well

(7)Japanese information is easy to understand

(8)You quote some date to make us understand.

Caizen:

(1)Your presentation was a bit of still

(2)Make the letter and pictures more bigger

(3)Should be more fluently

(4)Stress and shy.

(5)I think it’s better to try to get eye contact with audiences.

(6)a little short

CQ:

Keep:

(1)good handle of English

(2)spoke very slowly

(3)There are many things I or other Japanese don’t about the movement of same-sex marriage.

(4)Besertation(I can’t read this word) points clear.

(5)Good English

(6)For Japanese students River’s English is easy to listen.

(7)Slides includes some Japanese,so good!

(8)Voice is easy to hear

(9)Eye contact is good

(10)Great Japanese pronunciation

(11)You looked at audiences’ eyes.

(12)Your pronunciation and voice was clear

(13)You straightened your back during others’ speaking

Caizen:

(1)You should look your paper less.

(2)Talk to audience more and more

(3)You must not have see paper

(4)Good team work

(5)As a team, the presentation was well-organized and delivered much information

My feedback

    In GQ, maybe next time should use more date by using graph. And make more analysis toward those dates. It looks like more understandable.Plus, as sensei mention,I should show opposite opinions to open the discussion. In CQ,  I should prepare more and make my speech more fluently. And look all of my audiences, instead looking at one side audience. That’s why some of them can see my eye contact but others can not.

Bonus

   In our group, we have 5 people. 3 western guys and 2 Asia female. A interesting thing is Asia people tend to give more bonus to A than western people will. I gave A 20% and momoyo gave A 15%. On the contrary, a American just gave a 6%. I think it is connect with the chart. 

    We will tend to give more money to the powerful people, because we get used to live in where power distance is very huge. Though the chart, we can know that China has a huge gap between powerful people and others, and it influence me very much, even I didn’t know it. That’s why I give most percentages to A and B, each one 20% above the average 12.2% and 17%.

    From this class, I learnt culture we live in will definitely affect our thought unconsciously. And it is very terrifying, because I trying to escape the influence of China, but now I fudged it out I can’t.

    The average of our group is 12.2% to A, 17% to B, 26.6% to C, 23% to D, 21.2% to E.  We just agree that give less to A and C, then the time went up. In my opinion, I still don’t agree that C gets less bonus than average 26.6%, because C does 35% work and C has previous experience who can help D gets used to work and help E to finish their job. They are very important. What’s more, we were divided on E’s bonus. 2 western people gave E biggest part of bonus, but the other western people and us gave E 15~20% bonus. The 2 people said thinking about E’s family and long service, so E earn it. But we think E just do 20% of work, so E doesn’t earn over 20% bonus. 

Q&A

Q1: Who can get the most part of bonus?Why?

Q2:Who will get the least part of bonus?Why?

Q3:Did your group arrive at a group consensus?

Q4:What is your group consensus?Why?

Q5:If not what disturb you to arrive at a group consensus?