Dr. Kadzys

 

We had a gentlemen by the name of Dr. Kudzys come talk to our class, I learned many things from him about Japanese culture. A big thing he hit on was the way that Japanese peoples life usually go, it was very interesting to find the many types of ways this usually goes, he said that most Japanese people are born Buddhist, merry like a Christian and die Shinto. This was a very interesting perspective on Japanese culture that I had never heard of before.

     Another interesting thing I learned about Japanese culture was the many gods that Japanese people have; I think he said something like they believe in over 3000 gods. This is just so much different from in America where there is only one God for the most part.

One thing that the Doctor mentioned that I had herd before was that people would pretend not to speak English if they don’t want to talk to you; the shyness of the Japanese people is a huge thing that surprised me when I came here. In America people are a lot more loud and outgoing then the Japanese people. Another interesting cultural point of Japanese culture would be the diversity of religion in families. In the US the children usually follow the example of what religion they are in but in Japan you can have a Buddhist, a museum and a Christian all living in the same house hold and the and no one would argue because the Japanese people believes that everyone has there old opinion and that they are entitled to it. The Japanese believe that everyone has a good opinion on what they worship.

     All in all this was a very informative and interesting brief history lesion on how Japanese people behave, I was very glad I got the opportunity to here more about the awesome animal that is Japanese culture.