自己紹介

どうも!早稲田大学国際教養学部1年の那須孝です。 アメリカのニュージャージー州に住んでいたことがあります。 趣味は体を動かすことです。 今年の目標は、英語力を向上させることと、友達を増やすことです。 自己紹介は苦手なのですが、最後まで読んでくれてありがとう(^^;) Hi. My name is Takashi Nasu. I am a freshman at SILS, Waseda University. I used to live in New Jersey, America. My hobby is playing sports. My goal for this year is to improve my English skills, and to make more friends. I’m not good at writing self-introductions, but thanks for reading till the end!!

2008年1月27日日曜日

Role of Children

In Japan, what is thought to be the most important thing for children is to come up to their parent’s expectation. The most common role of children in Japan is to study hard, go to a private school, enter good university, and to get a good job. This is what Japanese parents expect on children. They want their children to have a happy life in future, and they will do their best to support their children.
But, there is a difference between American and Japanese parents in a rate of how much they support their children. In Japan, parents think of their children as the most important factor of their life. They give up a great amount of their life, time, and money to make their children success. Compared to that, American parents don’t sacrifice their life for their children as Japanese parents do. Of course they care about their children, but they care about both their life and children’s life.
Families in Japan

The way families are like in America and Japan is different in many ways. The biggest difference is that the role wife and husband are assigned.
In Japan, most husband works outside the house and wife does the house work. While husband is working at the office, wife cleans up the house, does the washing, and takes care of their children. Most husbands don’t help their wife with the house work, and wife doesn’t expect husband’s help. Because they both concentrate on their own job, husband has few opportunity to take part in their children’s school activities, and wife has more stress since she has few times for doing what she wants to do.
Compared to Japanese family style, American families have different kind of style. The biggest difference is that the percentage wife is working outside the house and husband participating at the house work is much higher than that of Japanese families. So while husband is working out, wife takes care of the house and children, and while wife is working, husband takes care of the house and children. By doing so, compared to Japan, both wife and husband have an opportunity to participate in children’s growth.
I think this is a very important part for children’s way of growing up, and what makes the difference is how companies in both countries are thinking of the employee’s home.