Japanese people who has not lived in England often admire people living in England. I admired to live in England before I moved to this country. Those who look at this country from outside believe England is such a beautiful country where gentlemen and noble ladies live. Yes, it is a "Queen's" country, and royalty adds something special to this country, too.
But reality is not always so beautiful. I know quite a few Japanese people who changed their good impressions towards England after they came to England. Many of them don't hesitate complaining about England any more.
English people are generally nice, warm-hearted and gentle, which is wonderful. On the other hand, people are too nice to discuss to make improvement happen. So everything stays as they were 100 years ago...(200 years ago??) Things have never changed. They take long long time to accomplish one task, and after having the customers waited for the work done so long, their work is unbelievably rough as if it was done by amature workers.
So there are pro and cons to live in this country as well as living in other countries.
But believe me, I quite like living here in this country.
This morning, I don't know why, but I was suddenly filled with the feeling of gratitude. This feeling appeared and instantly warmed my heart. This happened when I was looking at a sheet I printed out the other day. This was an information about a Homeopathic dentist that I am aiming to become. I accidentally found this dentist through my job-hunting research on the internet.
If I was in Japan, I would have much less opportunity to see a general homeopath. Furthermore I would never have a chance to see a Homeopathic dentist in Japan. There are not so many homeopathic dentists in England though, I found one relatively close to my town.
Homeopathy is still relatively new to Japan although it is acknowledged by more and more Japanese people nowadays. But if I was in Japan, I would not have any chances to study homeopathic dentistry without going abroad. But I can do it here in England. There are homeopathic colleges for medical doctors, dentists, nurses and other medical specialists. Before that, I could never possibly attend a dentistry course at a university. It is so much difficult to change professions for middle-aged in Japan, and going university costs much more in Japan. Scholarship programs are not as open to people as in European countries. So if I was in Japan, I would not really think about going to a uni to study dentistry, especially after so many years have passed from my uni graduation.
Ahhh,
I am really grateful with my surroundings at the same time I am grateful to my family and friends who support me.
Also I am grateful that I have gotten a courage to follow the path I believe...
Thanks for my frineds and for this beautiful world.
...with love.
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2 comments:
I just came across your weblog and enjoyed reading this thread about your impressions of UK. I have never got interested in UK and its people. The reason is that I simply never got good impression about them even I have few good British friends.
UK people I met through work and personal situations even in church, they looked down Japanese.
Local people where you are now might be different from people I met belongs to embassy or expert of their field, highly educated and so on.
I will read more about your UK description with curiosity. thanks
Hello, min,
thanks for your comment!
Racism is a big problem in the UK. For educated people, it is a common sense that all the different nationarities should be equal. But they still have prejudice to Asians in deep bottom of their heart. Especially for Japanese, their memory for the World War is still vivid.
Also it is a fact the government such as embassy or an immigration officers are very very very arrogant for non-English.
Thnks.
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