Rachel –Mental Illness and how it is viewed in the US and ...



Rachel –Mental Illness and how it is viewed in the US and Japan

Medina-Homelessness in Japan and America

Michiko- Kindergarten to Elementary Ojuken

Christopher-Copyright law in Japan

Opinions on my abortion research

Rachel

They are all about efficiency, they don’t want weaklings. It makes sense. They think about the whole picture. Wonders how society views the person both in America and Japan, so they care more about image.

Medina

Interesting to think of fetus as life. Impress that the Japanese are thinking ahead, about the child and how it will be raised rather than now and the parent’s choice about to abort or not.

Michiko

Subject not touched on much in Japan. But she doesn’t agree with abortion.

Homelessness by Medina

In general there is a lose definition of homelessness. In Japan there wasn’t a word for homelessness, perhaps up until world war II. In japan there is an emphasis placed on there isn’t a place to live, but more you don’t have work. Universal in that most homeless are men and involved in substance abuse, and have some form of mental illness. Usually discriminated groups. In both instances, homelessness is often found in city areas. Specific cause for homelessness in the US, was the deinstitutionalization of mental illness. Another cause is drugs. In both places there is not a well developed social welfare system compared to European countries.

Rachel

We have a stigma towards to homeless people. We have a negative image of them. While in Japan, the stigma is different. Because people in Japane usually become homeless when they become unemployed, while in America the causes are so much broader.

Stigma of MENTALLY ILL IN USA VS IN JAPAN-Rachel

People in Japan feel like theycan cure depression with love from the family. Only very recently have they thought of depression. Their culture views mental illness and depression as more of something that religion can heal. Japanese people are big on motivation. Western view of depression is way more differently. While we are educated about it, we view it negatively. In japan, people are not educated about it, and there is a shame associated with having mentally illness. There is a sigman in the us that people who are mentally ill are scary and dangerous. It’s kind of a scapegoat.

Medina

Finds it shameful that mental illness has to be viewed the way it is viewed in Japan.

Michiko

Mental illness has a very negative image, but people who have a mental illness are not likely to go seek help.

Ojuken by michiko

Because of Ojuken kids are affected psychologically. Parents are crazy, they want thir kids to enter prestigious shools.

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