Hi friends from Chile and Jeanne!
Thank you for answering my students' questions about Chile. The distance between our countries is huge, but I hope this project will reduce our pychological distance. We are looking forward to meeting more people and exchanging more information about each other in this cyber classroom.
We are very interested in knowing about you, about Chiliean people, about your beautiful culture. Of course, we are willing to share our own.
So feel free to ask questions, post information and pictures about your culture so that we will get to know each other well.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
alguien podria responder algo en español ........
alguien habla un poco de español aca
Hola, yo hablo español.
Soy de Concepción, Chile.
Hello Eiko and students! Buenos Días
Thanks for inviting us to share Chilean culture with you. We are very interested in learning more about Japanese culture and politics.
Although I was born in the United States, I have lived in Chile for 14 years and teach Political Science in the University. Chile is a fascinating country. It is incredibly long and thin. It is much more European than one generally imagines, probably because it is not a tropical country.
It is a country of contrasts. In the North, it practically never rains, while the South is filled with water and fjords. The capital city of Santiago is incredibly technological, while many rural areas here do not even have electricity.
Japanese food and culture are slowly arriving to Chile, where the principal ambassadors are cartoons and sushi.
Despite their many differences, I have always thought that Chilean and Japanese food are very similar because both utilize very fresh seafood and have very clean tastes: just lemon and a bit of salt.
We look forward to learning even more about Japan.
Jeanne Simon
Hi Jeanne and her students,
Thank you for your comments. I was trying to read Spanish ones, but I only understood a word "Spanish". Sorry.
I read Jeanne's comment to my students in class. We have alread learned a lot about your country. It was surprising to know that there was much difference between big cities and rural areas. I don't think we have much difference between city life and country life in Japan. Young people tend to go to big cities like Tokyo to study and find a job, so fewer people live in countryside.
Japan consists of five islands. Our hometown Nagoya is located in the center of the main island and one and a half hours away from Tokyo by the bullet train. The northen island, Hakaido has lots of dairy farms and gets pretty cold in winter. The most southern island, Okinawa stays warm all year round and has many pretty beaches.
I didn't know Chilean food is similar to Japanese food. We used to eat a lot of fish, but young people tend to eat more meat at home. The only place we eat fish is fast food Sushi restaurant where sushi on a plate goes around on a conveyor belt and customers pick up their favorite ones.
I know that young people of the world love Japanese cartoons. Hayao Miyazaki's animation is pretty popular in Japan. I heard "Kureyon Shin-chan" was shown in Spain. Is it also shown in Chile?
I look forward to hearing a lot of questions and comments.
Eiko Ujitani
Post a Comment