NAMES

 

When you confront the way you behave and how you carry yourself when you are around different cultures of people. The whole society is itself, but when you are around different cultures of people, that's when you start to understand how people around you carry themselves and the way they act around you. It definitely catches up to this generation the more people learn. As American people try to learn and understand different cultures and learn how to speak a certain language, we kind of find it funny, because we are not used to speaking that way, let alone the gestures that some cultures use when they speak their languages. There are so many differences when you are interacting with other cultures, because not all cultures do stuff the same. So it makes our behavior feel different, because we have so many reactions to speaking and acting differently when we are around other races of people and different languages. I think most of the time other races of people feel different about their behavior because they are trying to learn and understand what’s part of their culture for the first time, and I think us having a certain reaction to it is a part of us learning. 

So I think in class how we are being taught the Japanese language. People in the class have guilty reactions but it’s a part of us learning in a good way. The longer we learn about that culture and language, we won’t have the same behavior we did from the beginning. I believed him when he said cultural diversity increases better because the people from different cultures don’t have an everyday life experience as us normal people in the United States or even different cultures of people that lived in the United States. It's just history repeating itself and there are more developments in the history of cultures. For the comparison and contrast of how we use our names in English versus how they are used in Japanese, in English you can actually spell it out and sound it without using any charts. Also, you don’t have to pay attention to any sounds that are in your name. When looking at your name in Japanese, you have to pay attention to how many sounds that are in your name. You also look at the katakana chart and find the sounds that are within your name and write it down. With English, you don’t have to put a dot between your first and last name, just a space; but with Japanese you have to put a black dot between your first and last name.