Nadeshiko

 Problems of storytelling

Storyteller is a Spanish girl. She told me the story with Spanish tune, and sometimes I couldn’t understand what she said. She just started learning Japanese, so absolutely it is difficult to her to pronounce Japanese. And in the process, she had to repeat to let me understand the whole sentences. We skip some parts, because time is limited. As we all know, in Japanese, even “romaji” is same, but the accentuation will change meaning. Taking “kasa” as a example, when the stress falls on the first syllable of this word, it means umbrella, meanwhile when accentuate the second syllable of this word, it means high places. In the nadeshiko’s story, “romaji” wasn’t accentuated, so it was hard to me to understand which word she wanted to say.

ranking of characters

(1) nadeshiko: She is so brave to pursuit her love. What’s more, she never give up even when she is refused by her friend. But I don’t like the mean of going throw river. It may has other ways to solve the problem without betrayed her love.

(2) husband : He is so kind to marry a woman even he doesn’t love. I can’t give more details because we didn’t finish the story.

(3) friend: He has a right to refuse doing something he doesn’t want to, but it is so mean to turn her down.

(4) boatman: Offer a rude option to a trapped people.

(5) lover: He is so rude to let a lady down who go through a long distant alone just for him.

Questions

(1) What is the biggest problem in storytelling?

(2)Why it become the biggest problem to communicate?

(3)How can you improve the way of communicating?

(4) Which character is your favor?Why?

(5)Which character is the worst one? Why?

Acculturation+Banga

In this journal I want to talk about the acculturation base on Berry’s acculturation model. And use my cultural background to explain my opinion of the strategy I would take assimilation when I meet with cultural shock. But in my mind, I think integration is the best one. 

  Frist, I was born and raised in western-south of China. There are cultural differences between north and south, at the same times, west and east. North is more radical than south at emotion. East is more opening than west at thinking. Seen my family are raised in a small western-south city, their ideas are very conservative. My university is in Beijing, eastern-north of China. It changed my mind. I never go out of my town expect Beijing, and it is my first time study abroad as an exchange student.

Thought the date of freedom, we can see Chinese people are always under government’s control. We have citizen rights but it doesn’t mean we have liberal. That’s why I will use assimilation strategy at the game. Assimilation equal obey protecting me out of minority group. Even I want to use integration to keep my own part from my culture.

In the first time, I played the game with American, so the rule I learned from them is all I knew. In the second time, I played with Asian and just obeyed the new rule without saying a word.

Even taking assimilation is flexible and safety choice, we also need to keep our identity. Through civilization revolution, we threw our tradition that we insisted 3000 years. At that time, if we use assimilation to protect our individual, maybe things will be different. Our society will be less homogeneity.

The reason I choose integration is go for our identity. It can remind us who we were and who we are.

Questions:

(1) How is your country?

(2) Which one do you prefer to choose?

(3) Why do you choose this ?

(4) What do you think about integration?

(5)What do you think about assimilation?

A short introduction of myself

 My name is Syou Lee; people call me River or Kawa. I am born in China and raised in China. My university is in Beijing called Capital normal university. I was born on the 31 of August in Wuzhou, a small city.

Journal No.1

   The country I choose is Japan. As you all know, Japan and China have a lot of differences and common. Taking Kanji as a example, those came from China and differed to Chinese. To support this opinion, I will outline 3 reasons.

   To begin with, Chinese and Japanese feel shy about touching people, so when they shaking with someone will give a lighter handshake than Europe people. Meanwhile, Part of Japanese are politer than part of Chinese. As you can see in news, Chinese tourists are known for unruly behavior. Even China becoming richer than before, we also need more time to fix our bad core and create a now image about Chinese. Furthermore, Japanese can vote and choose the party they want for better life. And they can say whatever they want and no need to afraid of being arrest. Liberty as fundamental rights of a citizen, Japanese have more than us.

Questions

(1) If you want to live, which one will you choose?

(2) Do you like sushi?

(3) Do you want to work at Japan? And why?

(4) I wasn’t allowed to learn civilization revolution before, so can you tell me some details of it?

(5) Do you want to work at China? And why?