#7: Paper

     For my paper, I decided to write about the differences in how people communicate disagreement in Japanese and American culture.  Since each places the responsibility for understanding a complaint or making a complaint understood on different people, it's really interesting to look at how cultural ideas influence how we work together.  In JCEC and Akron U's two Japanese Clubs, I've had the opportunity to see American and Japanese people work together; sometimes more successfully than others.  If we don't understand how the people around us communicate, after all, how can we communicate anything at all?

     I had a lot of fun writing it!  I've always liked writing, and this is the longest assignment in Japanese I've had yet, so it's exciting to see how far I've come.  Even with my limited vocabulary, I feel like I can express pretty complex ideas.  It was a great challenge to really utilize everything I've learned up to this point in context.