Canada
Toronto is a wonderland
Do I enjoy Toronto? The answer is “Yes” and “No.” I enjoy the diversity of people and the tolerance towards individual differences like I did in San Francisco. However, I do not enjoy what some immigrants think, yet I can enjoy learning something from their ideas. Some non-western immigrants dislike the majority of Canadians in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Muslims and immigrants in Toronto
It has been three months since I came to Toronto, a city of immigrants. What surprised me the most is the fact that there are many Muslim immigrants in Toronto. You can see women with headscarves everywhere, on the streets, in trains and in shopping malls. They can walk outside after dark and can date [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Individual freedom has a different name in Japanese language
I have being looking for a kind of freedom and I have named it “small freedom.” I consider Tokyo to be the most liberal city in Japan and I moved there from Osaka. But I could not find my small freedom. Now I realize that my small freedom is an individual freedom. In the Japanese [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Can people who experience Multiculturalism be tolerant to an intolerant society?
I have longed for Cosmopolitanism, which was created by Aleksandros III in ancient times, since I learned it at high school. I have often thought that Multiculturalism is similar to Aleksandros’ Cosmopolitanism. However, as learn more about Multiculturalism, I have come to feel that a “colorful mix” is not always beautiful or lends itself to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )A Canadian hostess girl in Japan, 19 years old
When I stayed in a guesthouse just after I returned to Japan from the U.S., I met a 19 year old Canadian girl illegally working as a hostess in a Tokyo nightclub. She was gentle and well-mannered and I came to like her. She originally came to Japan as an assistant language teacher of English [...]
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