Culture Difference

When I think of difference between American culture and Japanese one, I usually think of two things. One is food, and the other is behave.

At first, As everyone may knows, Japanese traditional food is considered to be one of the most healthy food in the world. We eat more fish and vagetable and less meat and oil than American people. On the other hand, American traditional food are considered as one of the representative of unhealthy food.

The second difference, which are more important thing than food, I think of is people's behaves (which is including social rules). Most of service are slower than that of Japan, It is hard for me to set up our American life. For example, when I bought some applicants and furniture for our new life in Chicago, it takes so long time for them to arrive at our home. If we buy some things like above in Japan, we can get these things within the day or next day we buy them.

I was surprised from not only the speed of some services but also people's attitude to strangers. When I am walking outside, I was sometimes asked from some people who I don"t know which shop I got my shoes, bags, etc. In Japan, we never ask such private questions to strangers.

As I told above, American culture is a little bit different from Japanese culture, so when I moved here in Chicago, I got a lot of hard time from this difference. I don't want to remember what happened at that time! Anyway, I have managed to get used to American culture. Consequently, I really enjoy my American life now!

Dietary changes

 

Dietary changes of late years gave us much more effects than we expected. For example, because of dietary changes, there is a huge difference in the physical builds between children fifty years ago and children today. Why has our eating habits been changed? I guess one of the biggest reasons is globalization. We can access other countries’ food easily even though we are in our own countries. The second reason may be the change of life style. As result of the fact that people are busier than before, we started to use microwave and go to restaurants more often than before.

 

Most people got some good advantages of this diet changing. As I was saying, recently, we can go to some various type of food easily. It makes our quality life much better as dietary habit is one of the most important things in our life. Some people choose their own eating habits in order to show their own principle. Vegetarian and fruitarian are good illustrations of this. 

 

On the other hand, diet changing has some disadvantages. As we have much more junk food restaurants than before, a lot of children and some adult people who are not good at controlling themselves can access such kind of food easily. Consequently, we got some social problems regarding obesity of people.

 

As described above, We cannot say dietary changing is always good thing and we cannot say it is always bad thing. Of course, we cannot stop social changing including diet habits. At least we can say it is important for us to gather a lot of information and knowledge by ourselves in order to avoid disadvantage of dietary changing. 

 

The first blog for me

Hi!  I am a Japanese woman Yukie, come from Tokyo. Now I live in Chicago and am having a lot of fun with my pretty sweet friends! This is the first blog for me so I think I have to introduce of myself.
I came here last Summer as my husband entered into a law school in downtown of Chicago and we plan to go back to Japan next August. It means that my husband and I got a long vacation in the USA. I didn't want to miss this big chance to have a great time in Chicago and I thought it is important for me to improve my English skill to enjoy this long vacation. This is the reason why I decided to enter this school, Intrax.

Next, I want to introduce one of my great Intrax friend, Mikung Kim.She come from South Korea, so she is Asian! That may be why we have a lot of similar things. At first we like a lot of food and we can eat almost every food. Second, we are interested in Brazil, third, we are both cheerful and sometimes a little bit lazy...