Everybody in the world born to be "someone".
Suppose you have born as an American, for an example.
Suppose you have born as an American, for an example.
Unless you're in the overseas you don't really think you're born as an American. Maybe you realize yourself as a NewYorker, or a school teachers' son, or maybe a descendent of Irish, Germany, Mexican, African-American or else.
Being an American by born or by birth certificate never guarantee that a baby American by born become "American adult".
I've heard of an American born child who raised in China by his American pastor and his wife until he become 12. His parents were killed through Mao's revolution, and raised by faithful Chinese step parents after that.
He got a chance to come home, New York on his thirty's. He'd try to settle in Big Apple, but, finally he realized that he had become fully Chinese, not an American, although his outfits is typical "anglo-American white man".
This man "came home to China" where his heart really belong to.
So, being accepted by a community is very important both for parents and a baby American.
A baby become an American by education at home, school, community, church, synagog, and other authorities.
Also day to day personal experience with other people enforce or discourage "to be or not to be" an American.
Once you become an adult American never guarantee that you'll live as an American until your death.
If an American man marry to Japanese woman, he might prefer to live in Japan. His children will maybe become Japanese who don't like to speak English with you.
Then he will probably feel very strange feeling. He's feeling himself like a father of Japanese child, but Japanese society never accept him as "Japanese" no matter how hard he try to
be a settled-Japanese until he will see his grandchildren.
In Japan, the most important factor to be a Japanese is "born from Japanese parents".
If one belong to special clan family, whose ancestor is famous Samurai or Noble family will receive more respect than a child of a shop owner or an ordinary farmer.
For some family, born as the first son of their family decide a baby's vocation. From Japanese emperor to Kabuki actor, born to that family means inherit their vocation or duty automatically.
Actually, there are only less than several percent of Japanese born to inherit some job, wellness, and wealth.
Unfortunately, there's no common system to inherit the traditional culture and religion in Japan for 99% of common people.
In other sense, it is unbelievably free to choose the vocation, evaluation, culture and religion in Japan.
I've heard of a famous Jesuit priest whose father was a Buddhist monk. His home is the temple, and doing the management and support to Buddhists in his area as a Jesuit.
Neighbors and even the Buddhists do admit to have a Holy Mass in the corner of Buddhist temple without such doubt.
In the other hand, there's social "mood" to enforce "not to use the freedom and liberty to suit into the given situation".
To be a Catholic or Christian had been thought as "taboo" in Japanese society.
Especially, women are encouraged not to have any self-esteem, belief and confidence in Japan, for she should always be ready to change her self-esteem depends on the "peer pressure" from her parents, husband, and other people around her.
The peer pressure reject those who intend or select to be a Catholic or Christian. Some people even justify abuses to Catholic or Christian, just because there is "do it as it had been or don't do it" system.
When we rebuilt a new house ten years ago, a house builder's sales man asked me "not to have a Catholic blessing on OUR land before we start building OUR house".
According to him, his company do have a system for the land blessing ritual in Shintoism, but not in other religion.
I told him that we do reject Shintoism, then he strongly not to do any religious ritual for land blessing.
He could never understand that the religious value and faith belong to each person or family, not his company or "his social understanding according to his personal common senses".
It's a very small part of day to day persecution invisible to Catholics and Christians in Japan.
In Japan, Catholics and Christians are always asked "to be with Christ or not to be".
If you are in the society, area or nation where Catholic and Christianity is settled as a tradition, you'll never think about " to be or not to be".
But, to inherit any tradition, everybody in the world must face the truth of your culture, faith, and tradition and always need to stand-by to be renewed and reformed.
If your culture, religion, tradition, language, poem, songs, music, or whatever you have now is becoming "boring event with less joy and more abuses", it is time to think about renew and refresh with the new wind.
Being an American by born or by birth certificate never guarantee that a baby American by born become "American adult".
I've heard of an American born child who raised in China by his American pastor and his wife until he become 12. His parents were killed through Mao's revolution, and raised by faithful Chinese step parents after that.
He got a chance to come home, New York on his thirty's. He'd try to settle in Big Apple, but, finally he realized that he had become fully Chinese, not an American, although his outfits is typical "anglo-American white man".
This man "came home to China" where his heart really belong to.
So, being accepted by a community is very important both for parents and a baby American.
A baby become an American by education at home, school, community, church, synagog, and other authorities.
Also day to day personal experience with other people enforce or discourage "to be or not to be" an American.
Once you become an adult American never guarantee that you'll live as an American until your death.
If an American man marry to Japanese woman, he might prefer to live in Japan. His children will maybe become Japanese who don't like to speak English with you.
Then he will probably feel very strange feeling. He's feeling himself like a father of Japanese child, but Japanese society never accept him as "Japanese" no matter how hard he try to
be a settled-Japanese until he will see his grandchildren.
In Japan, the most important factor to be a Japanese is "born from Japanese parents".
 |
Catholic Karuizawa Church |
If one belong to special clan family, whose ancestor is famous Samurai or Noble family will receive more respect than a child of a shop owner or an ordinary farmer.
For some family, born as the first son of their family decide a baby's vocation. From Japanese emperor to Kabuki actor, born to that family means inherit their vocation or duty automatically.
Actually, there are only less than several percent of Japanese born to inherit some job, wellness, and wealth.
Unfortunately, there's no common system to inherit the traditional culture and religion in Japan for 99% of common people.
In other sense, it is unbelievably free to choose the vocation, evaluation, culture and religion in Japan.
I've heard of a famous Jesuit priest whose father was a Buddhist monk. His home is the temple, and doing the management and support to Buddhists in his area as a Jesuit.
Neighbors and even the Buddhists do admit to have a Holy Mass in the corner of Buddhist temple without such doubt.
In the other hand, there's social "mood" to enforce "not to use the freedom and liberty to suit into the given situation".
To be a Catholic or Christian had been thought as "taboo" in Japanese society.
Especially, women are encouraged not to have any self-esteem, belief and confidence in Japan, for she should always be ready to change her self-esteem depends on the "peer pressure" from her parents, husband, and other people around her.
The peer pressure reject those who intend or select to be a Catholic or Christian. Some people even justify abuses to Catholic or Christian, just because there is "do it as it had been or don't do it" system.
When we rebuilt a new house ten years ago, a house builder's sales man asked me "not to have a Catholic blessing on OUR land before we start building OUR house".
According to him, his company do have a system for the land blessing ritual in Shintoism, but not in other religion.
I told him that we do reject Shintoism, then he strongly not to do any religious ritual for land blessing.
He could never understand that the religious value and faith belong to each person or family, not his company or "his social understanding according to his personal common senses".
It's a very small part of day to day persecution invisible to Catholics and Christians in Japan.
In Japan, Catholics and Christians are always asked "to be with Christ or not to be".
If you are in the society, area or nation where Catholic and Christianity is settled as a tradition, you'll never think about " to be or not to be".
But, to inherit any tradition, everybody in the world must face the truth of your culture, faith, and tradition and always need to stand-by to be renewed and reformed.
If your culture, religion, tradition, language, poem, songs, music, or whatever you have now is becoming "boring event with less joy and more abuses", it is time to think about renew and refresh with the new wind.
0 件のコメント:
コメントを投稿