Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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About Me
- Mrs. Rigsby
- I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and attended the University of Missouri at Columbia for my undergrad. I have a Masters in Elementary Education from Regis. I come from a family with four kids. My sister is a teacher in Chicago. One of my brothers lives here and the other one lives in Chicago. I moved here because my husband loved Colorado and I loved him. As it turns out,I love Colorado as well.
Manjaro has learned many differences in culture. One of them is clothing. In Japan people wear Kimono’s and in America you can wear anything. Another difference is food. In America you can eat hamburgers and bread and pancakes etc. In Japan you eat a lot of seafood and rice aka sushi. When the fishermen are talking in Japanese Manjaro has a hard time understanding it. Manjaro has learned how to speak English and is forgetting the Japanese language. The toys and automobiles are different there. In Japan you are not allowed to touch women. There are many differences that Manjaro has to learn.
ReplyDelete-Neave
Some differences are that people in Japan cant touch women. One of the differences are that in Japan are you speak Japanesse and in America you speak english. There is a difference in clothes also. The Japanesse wear diffrent clothing then us. In Japan people bow in stead of shaking hands like in America. Cooper
ReplyDeleteManjiro has learned many cultural differences between the two cultures. The first is the food, in Japan they normally eat rice, sushi, fish, and noodles. In America they eat many different things like, donuts, pizzas, hamburgers, tacos, french fries, hotdogs etc. Another cultural difference would be the way they dress in Japan and the way Americans dress. In America there are many different styles and fashions. In Japan there is only one style, Kimonos. That's why Manjiro was so, surprised to see buttons, and pockets. Another cultural difference is the laws, in Japan men aren't allowed to touch woman at all or they will be arrested. In America the laws are much different because men can touch woman they just can't hit woman. Manjiro has learned alot of the Americas cultural differences but, he still has a lot to learn.
ReplyDeleteManjiro has encountered the following cultural differences thus far.Having your feet off the floor, as apposed to sitting on the floor.Using forks as apposed to eating with chopsticks.Eating rotten food as opposed to eating rice and fish.Not taking showers as opposed to taking showers every day.
ReplyDeleteManjiro has learned of many cultural differences and is learning more.the food is different.The languages are different.They eat in different kinds of chairs and positions.The styles of clothes are different too.
ReplyDeleteSome of the cultural differences Manjiro has encountered this far are... Language, beacause in Japan you speak Japanese and in America you speak English. An example of this from the book is when Manjiro says, "My friends are still on the island." But it was clear these creatures didn't understand. Another cultural difference Manjiro has encountered is meals, they sit on the ground to eat in Japan and sit in chairs in America. An example of this in the book is when the book says... Manjiro would never get used to sitting this way, he thought, and why should he? Only an ignorant foreigner would sit this way. One last cultural difference between Japan and America is social, in Japan a man and women cannot touch each other in public in America it's fine. An example of this in the book is when the book says..."Now I make it appear!" Manjiro started to reach toward the girls face, intending to make the coin seem to come out of her ear. But he stopped, his arm suspended in midair. What if he accidentally touched her! Something like this could never happen in Japan, he suddenly thought-for a man and women to be so familiar in public! But he was not in Japan, he reminded himself-he was in America now, where men and women walked arm in arm on the street. Those are a few cultural differences that Manjiro has discovered this far.
ReplyDeleteEvy
Manjiro has encountered many cultural differences from japan and America. The language is different, Manjiro speaks Japanese and in America they speak English. The clothes are different, in japan they wear kimonos and so Manjiro was surprised by pocket and buttons. In japan men are not allowed to touch women. They also shake hands instead of bowing. There are other differences but those are the main ones.
ReplyDelete-Frankie