Experience that Influenced Me the Most
Throughout my life, there have been several events and people that influenced significantly who I am today. Among those things, Coming to Canada has become the most important influence in my life because it changed the way I look at interpersonal relationship, cultural differences and helped me to determine my identity. By moving to overseas by myself at age 22, I learned to adjust myself to new culture that is completely different from my Japanese background. I have adapted this new culture in some extent, but at the same time, I have discovered and strengthened my identity as Japanese by making myself understand others better.First, I had to learn how to communicate with people in English and went through hard time during the process. By now, I have acquired English ability that allows me not to have trouble handling things in the daily life. Acquiring new language ability is considered to be cognitive complexity, and this development affected me psychosocially as well. In the beginning of my stay in Canada, I had trouble making myself understood by Canadians. I first thought the problem is due to my poor English ability and my quiet personality. However, after I gained enough ability of English to communicate with others,
By coming to Canada, I become aware of so many different things. Leaning English not only made me able to communicate with Canadians but also to have deeper understanding of Canadian culture. Furthermore, the experience reinforced me to try to understand other cultures and communicate with people with different background as well. Because of this experience, I can now look at Japanese culture and the system of the society with more objective view and discovered my identity as Japanese. Without this experience, my understanding of the world and environment would have been different from the ones I have now. Despite difficulties that I have due to the language disability, I still glad that I came to here because I know this experience has changed me a lot and has important meaning in my life and self development. I also come to realize importance of the role significant others play to form one's identity and self-concept. I am now able to interpret social contexts in different cultures and communicate with people from different countries without much trouble. This is so because I can apply my experience and use it to figure out what to do. I also began to think about my cultural background and become more aware of Japanese culture and social systems by comparing my experience in Canada and my life in Japan. By interacting with people from other culture, I can learn a lot of interesting things and I can have deeper insight to Japanese culture. Therefore, when I mee
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