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Weekly Summary: Nori snuck out of her dormitory and left with Erik, her love interest and foreigner, to take him out in the nightlife of
Weekly Thoughts: "Nori felt strangely comfortable here already. Like she'd come home." (pg.142)
Nori, just arriving at her great aunt and great uncle, feels the comfortableness easily. I think this is so, because she feels welcomed, loved, and a part of something that she has been missing in her life. Nori living in Powell, Ohio, where you are distances across, is hard to hold onto your own ethnic culture. Coming to Japan is something she needed that brought her a piece of herself. Nori and me are both Asian born in America. I have never visited my ethnic home, neither has Nori until her acceptance and arrival to the SASS( Students Across the Seven Seas) host location in Japan. Finding out who you are and your passions, is part in understanding your ethnic culture. Whenever I immerse myself with stories about Gods and ethnic values and ethnic traditions, I feel safe and secure. I think the feeling of having faith, involvement in some type of traditions, like whether celebrating Vietnamese's New Year or the Kitchen God, you feel spiritually connected to your ancestors and self. This feeling of knowing where you came from and feeling the sense of belonging somewhere, helps you define/discover yourself a little further, hopefully comfortableness.
2 comments:
Hi Shaina, i can really relate to what you've said in this blog. I also feel secure when I read those stories relating to my culture. Celebrating New Year is one of my favorite events. I like how you said "...feeling of knowing where you came from... helps you define/discover yourself a little further, hopefully comfortableness." Indeed, looking deep into yourself or your roots does alow you to "feel at home".
Hey Shaina. I did a post last year in English 3 about perserving culture. The book I was reading was "The Kitchen God's Wife". You should check it out. One of my favorite entries. You have a very strong value for your culture and I think its absolutely wonderful. I think a lot of little Asian-American girls can look up to you because you show them that it is ok to be traditional. Many minorities are not like you at all. They feel that in order to blend into the general public, it is required of them to abandon their culture. But why blend in when you can be unique and special right? =]
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