Archive for October, 2020
A Restaurant that is Gentle to Women Posted by eriko1 on Oct 29, 2020
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Gender inequality (男女不平等) still seems to be alive and strong in Japan. But now it has become discreet without also being ill-intentioned. What I mean is that nobody seems to have any idea that s/he is discriminating (差別する) or is being discriminated against. Perhaps discrimination may be too strong of a word. Stereotyped, or over-generalized may be more…
Who am I? Posted by eriko1 on Oct 15, 2020
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This week, my students are trying to write their names in Katakana. As I was helping one student write his name, I asked him “have you thought about your name – how it sounds before?” He laughed as he had never thought about it. What Japanese native speakers hear is very different from what non-native…