電気通信大学 ASE & AWE I: Immigrants・移民

Hello!  

How are you? Our new topic is on immigrants (移民) - people from one country who move to live in another country, and identity (正体) - your feeling and understanding about who you are as a person. 

Activity
Look at these pictures. Who are Japanese, and who are not Japanese? For the ones who are not Japanese - what are their countries?

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Homework
Now choose two (2) of the following people and do a little research about them. 

Marutei Tsurinen
Agnes Chan
Victor Starffin
Yoko Ono
Renho

Write some notes about them. Bring your notes to the next class. 

See you next class!

Images: Top - By mroach - originally posted to Flickr as Japan visa, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8908845/1.Keiko Fujimori - by Keiko_Fujimori.jpg: Congreso de la República del Perúderivative work: Athenchen (talk) - Keiko_Fujimori.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11754296/2. "OFeldman, Tokyo, 2012" by Ofer Feldman- Own work/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OFeldman,_Tokyo,_2012.jpg#mediaviewer/File:OFeldman,_Tokyo,_2012.jpg/3. Priyanka Yoshikawa - screen shot taken from unattributed Internet source/4. Ryan Higa by Gage Skidmore http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Ryan_Higa_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/5. Dido Havenaar by norio nakayama (Flickr: 大宮アルディージャ vs 清水エスパルス @ NACK5スタジアム)/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Dido_Havenaar%2C_assistant_coach_for_Shimizu_S-Pulse.jpg/6. Michio Kaku by Cristiano Sant´Anna/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Michio_Kaku-cropped.jpg/All rights reserved on top image. All other images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. All rights reserved. Uploaded for educational purposes only.

ECA (Speaking) I (J): エスニシティー・正体

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's look more at our global-glocal topic about ethnicity and identity (エスニシティー、正体).

Homework
Here are two videos on the topic of ethnicity and identity. Both videos are about the newest Miss World Japan for 2016, Priyanka Yoshikawa. You may have heard of her - she is half-Japanese and half-Bangladeshi, and she has had some very different reactions by Japanese people to her winning the Miss World Japan contest.

Here is the first video. It's short and in Japanese, and gives you an idea of who she is.

Here is the second one. It's longer, and it comes from an Internet-based website for a Japanese person who teaches Japanese to foreigners online. It starts off in English - but then goes into Japanese. The teacher interviews people on the street in Tokyo to get their reactions to her being Miss World Japan. 

Here are some questions for you to answer. Watch the video more than once if you have to. Please write your answers in your notebook. 

Here are the first set of questions.

1. The first woman interviewed:

What does she think of mixed people? 

How does she feel about Priyanka Yoshikawa representing Japan?

2. The second woman:

What does she think of Priyanka Yoshikawa being Miss World Japan?

3. The man and woman:

What does the man think of Priyanka Yoshikawa's character?

How does the woman feel about Priyanka Yoshikawa's looks?

4. The two female friends:

What does the first woman say about Priyanka Yoshikawa's ethnic background? 

How does the second woman feel about the judges' choice of Priyanka Yoshikawa?

5. The two male friends:

What does the first man say about her looks?

How does the second man feel about her representing Japan (日本の代表している) ? 

I hope this is interesting for you. 

Take care! 

Image: "Seamless pattern" (unattributed)/courtesy of iStock Photos - Getty Images. All rights reserved. 

Videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to these videos. Uploaded for educational purposes only. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s).

ECA (Speaking) I (J & D): 移民・正体

Hello!  

How are you? Our new topic is on immigrants (移民) - people from one country who move to live in another country, and identity (正体) - your feeling and understanding about who you are as a person. 

Look at these pictures. Who are Japanese, and who are not Japanese? For the ones who are not Japanese - what are their countries?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Homework
Now choose two (2) of the following people and find out about them on the Internet. Write some notes about them. Bring your notes to the next class.

Marutei Tsurinen
Agnes Chan
Victor Starffin
Yoko Ono
Renho

See you next class!

Images: Top - By mroach - originally posted to Flickr as Japan visa, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8908845/1.Keiko Fujimori - by Keiko_Fujimori.jpg: Congreso de la República del Perúderivative work: Athenchen (talk) - Keiko_Fujimori.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11754296/2. "OFeldman, Tokyo, 2012" by Ofer Feldman- Own work/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OFeldman,_Tokyo,_2012.jpg#mediaviewer/File:OFeldman,_Tokyo,_2012.jpg/3. Priyanka Yoshikawa - screen shot taken from unattributed Internet source/4. Ryan Higa by Gage Skidmore http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Ryan_Higa_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/5. Dido Havenaar by norio nakayama (Flickr: 大宮アルディージャ vs 清水エスパルス @ NACK5スタジアム)/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Dido_Havenaar%2C_assistant_coach_for_Shimizu_S-Pulse.jpg/6. Michio Kaku by Cristiano Sant´Anna/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Michio_Kaku-cropped.jpg/All rights reserved on top image. All other images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. All rights reserved. Uploaded for educational purposes only.