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How do you integrate cultural understanding into your lectures, ensuring that students gain not only subject knowledge but also an appreciation for global perspectives, particularly in a culturally homogenous setting like Japan? This is an essential question. To help students in Japan develop global perspectives, I encourage them to question the cultural assumptions they often take for granted. For example, when teaching about Islam, I start by asking students to consider how they view religion. Most respond that they don’t hold any particular faith. However, when I ask if they have visited a temple or shrine in the past year, most say yes. I then explain that this reflects a form of faith within our culture. Many students don’t consciously identify their beliefs as ‘religious,’ but they still engage in practices like visiting holy sites for good fortune. By highlighting these cultural norms, I help students become more aware of their own perspectives on religion. Once they recognize these underlying assumptions, they are more open to understanding other belief systems, such as Islam, without viewing them through a lens of comparison or judgment. This approach turns learning into an opportunity for mutual understanding rather than a way to determine which culture is ‘better.’
26 de octubre de 2024
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Yesterday my colleague asked me to move in again. After knowing that I am living in a barber shop and the barber didn't ask me to pay during summer holiday (because he said he couldn't find a renter like me), she finally gave up. I still remember that a musician played and sang Jiang Kui's "An Xiang" for me, It was the first time I had heard that song played on the guitar and I found it unbearably sad. Some things can only be understood firsthand. When I was young, I heard someone playing Jiang Kui's melody. I enrolled in a guqin class. At that time in my life, I was stressed, so I had to give it up. Perhaps only people who move frequently can understand the travels in Jiang Kui's mid and later life. "But now your poet is getting old, and he has forgotten the love and lyrics; yet, he still resents the few flowers beyond the bamboo, for their chilling fragrance has crept into his chamber."
25 de octubre de 2024
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It was a beautiful sunny day. We got up early and went to a huge national park on an island. It was the largest park I've ever seen. We rented bikes and spent hours exploring the island along the coast. I noticed something interesting: there were many large spiders on the trees or near the water, like literally everywhere! It scared me a lot, but the locals didn't seem to mind at all. I almost ran into spider webs several times while cycling. Trust me, these webs were not vacant. Some of the spiders were dangling from trees so low that I had to crawl under them on my bike to pass through the narrow trails in the woods. Later, I realized something amazing: I hadn't been bitten by a single mosquito, even though I was in the woods the whole day. People keep spiders here to get rid of mosquitoes. What a brilliant idea!
25 de octubre de 2024
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