On Becoming Japanese: Part 3 ~ 日本人になる事・残業と人権？？

Response to Hikosaemon's excellent and lucid video about becoming Japanese and throwing yourself into the new culture. I largely agree, and think it is very important to try to adopt the new culture's values as your own without reserve, but not to the extent of harming yourself through workaholism.

His video is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-cpTzHnWk

My website with Japanese stuff and content tied to my videos is here:

http://gakurnaman.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• gakuranman
• 学ランマン
• japan
• japanese
• becoming japanese
• living
• multiculture
• language
• discrimination
• 日本
• 日本語
• foreigners
• gaijin

[8HOLYSUN]

私は日本人男性ですが、「学ラン」を着た外国人を見たのは初めて­なので、

ちょっと興味を持って見させてもらいました。

しかも日本語で話してくれたので内容も理解でしました。

なかなか良いこと言ってるじゃん！

これからも時々は、私みたいな英語が苦手な者にも解る「日本語ブ­ログ」も

お願いします。

とりあえず、「日本語で製作してくれて、ありがとう！」

サンキューベリーマッチ

[thegakuranman]

@8HOLYSUN ありがとうございます！これからも日本語のビデオを作って行きた­いと思っていますが、やっぱり字幕を作るのが時間掛かりますね。­まあ、でも頑張ります！自分の勉強にもなりますしね。

[painteddigital]

Secondly, I wanted to say that I feel like the issue you're dealing with is strictly limited to working in Japan. Having a foreign occupation, I never dealt with the difficulties you guys are talking about and I feel for you. That's something that always worried me, and I hope you can find a good solution.

[thegakuranman]

Thanks for your comments :) It's definitely true that as a foreigner, less is expected of you, but I've always strove to try and fit in the same as the people around me where possible. I think a great deal of it is showing you have the attitude and willingness to cooperate with the people around you.

[shirohige0826]

素晴らしい意見ですね！ただ、あまり人種にこだわり過ぎない方が­いいですよ。タイトルの「日本人になる事」というのが、とても違­和感を感じます。重要なのは、お互いに理解し合い、尊重しつつ、­自分も大切にすること。すべて合わせてしまっては自分という存在­意義が無くなってしまいますからね。素晴らしい動画です。

[poisanjp]

日本のサラリーマンは本当は残業したくないんです。

[gakuranman]

@CriticalTh1nker Thanks for the comment. Personally I think Hikosaemon's Japanese is far more solid than my own, but I don't really care for comparisons myself. I appreciate the kind words though :).

As for learning Japanese, repetition and immersion. Most of the Japanese I use in day-to-day life is repetitive phrases and chunks of language that I piece together. For example ~のではないでしょうか to make a suggestion. Things like that. Good luck!

[CriticalTh1nker]

...in fact, she referred to it as "perfect."

So what was your approach to learning Japanese?

I'm still at the "lost" stage; remembering a few select phrases that will never be used in conversation, and it occurs to me that if I'm ever to converse with anyone here, that it's not likely to be achieved through the memorization of phrases.

[CriticalTh1nker]

You might be interested in knowing that my wife, who is native Japanese, just said that you Japanese is much better than that of Hikosaemon.

[Yoouhu]

ある程度の一般の日本人なら日本の方ががおかしいだけと思ってる­のでは…

あなた方外国人の感覚の方が正しいのではないでしょうか。

私は自分が好きなことを仕事に出来てるので仕事時間が多くても平­気ですが。

[tokumas]

But, some Japanese people including me want to change the totalistic systems like "Zangyou" because, it is against to human rights, democracy and it's not great for making flourish sustainable society which people live lively spending money and mentally healthily. Also It's not the era for Japan to just make electronic stuffs for importing to other countries anymore. It's getting be in an era of creation for Japan to create flourish and wise people for making better society for happiness.

[ShadowxMaker]

It's interesting but you look like Sam Monroe from Siren: New Translation....