Today, I’d like to talk about the things that I found out on the other lecture.
I’m taking the Intercultural Communication Lecture taught by Mr.Dias.
At that lecture, I got an assignment like this, “Describe your satisfying intercultural experiences and unpleasant or uncomfortable intercultural experiences.”
For the satisfying intercultural experience, I wrote the experience that I had in New Zealand.
This experience is about the first time I communicated with foreign people, which made me very happy.
For the unpleasant or uncomfortable experience, I wrote the experience that I had in United States.
This experience was about food. It goes back to when I was a child. Our family went to United States for sightseeing. In Japan, I was regularly drinking a Japanese tea,
but at the US I couldn’t find out Japanese tea and all I found was some waters and soft drinks. So, instead I went through with water while we were traveling.
But the end of the travel, I find out Japanese tea at the sushi restaurant in the airport! I felt kind of relief to find out homeland thing on foreign country.
As I watching the other classmate’s experience, I found that many of them who went abroad also struggled with food problems, and most of them says that Japanese food is great.
I thought that, if they didn’t go to foreign country, probably they weren’t notice that Japanese food is great. Looking native country from other country’s view gives you many different perspective.
