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Kidney infection

“How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?”

William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience


I've got an infection of the kidney and I've been in hospital for a week, it's the worst experience in my life, staying there so long, I've been so healthy so I'm a bit shocked.
And having a high fever of 39-40 degrees at night was nightmare, then I learned I had polycystics in my kidney. Actually it's common and the cause of having such a high fever was some virus or bacteria from somewhere.
But then, with a check of CT scan, the doctor just found them, the polycystics in my kidney. It's just a genetic thing and no need to drain or surgery. If I take care of my body well, nothing will happen. My friend of surgeon told me these things, also I knew that his mother, who is already 78 years old and has these polycystics in her kidney and her liver hasn't have any problems with them in her life.

An experience, always we learn more from experiences than school.


It's been one year since Steve Jobs passed away. Why did he get cancer? I read about his history.
Normally there is a reason why someone becomes ill.

So I wonder what the reasons is..
Is it because he's became too famous and got heavily stressed?
Is it because he was too busy, pushed himself too much and had less sleep?
Is it because he'd been adapted as a child? (the reason was that his father was a Muslim and his mother's father couldn't accept their marriage.)
It is because he'd been following Zen and was a vegetarian?
Which meant, he didn't get an operation early enough when he found out he was ill? (he preferred to get natural cures.)
Is it because it's in his genes which also let his brain work so hard?

Maybe because all of them?
Stress, business, feeling less loved, eating habits, missing the early operation and his genes..

I knew that he'd only been getting 1$ for his basic salary after he becomes CEO of Apple. As he had enough money. the law states, people must get a salary of at least 1$ to register for insurance services. So he was the guy who had been getting the lowest salary of any CEO.

RIP


Nowadays I am curious about foods, because foods here in Singapore are so different, there are "Halal" foods for Muslims, strange vegetarian foods with meats which are processed and they are not actually meats of course, and I got a friend of vegan.
Indians, Chinese, Malays.. all are anyway not my foods at all, just tasting them sometimes is enough, because I don't know how they cook with what kinds of seasonings, maybe natural spices or herbs are OK, but I can't know about them well.
However, I never be so serious caring about eating habits, I wanna just enjoy eating, never be "Foodfadisum", but I eat what I really want to eat!

So how much should we eat of meats or fish? I am a Japanese and a fish eater and also love to eat beans. It's odd but I knew that Chinese eat pork more than Americans do, and if all the Chinese eat fish like Japanese, the fish in this world would disappear!
It is a lie that our muscles don't grow if we don't eat meats. We know this if we look at the natural world. Lions, a representative of carnivores, would have the biggest muscles, but in fact herbivores such as deer and horses have well developed muscles.
What the carnivores animals are good at is speed to catch games and it's just muscles for instantaneous force and they know that they can't win against the herbivores which have stronger muscles for staying power. also elephants and giraffes don't eat meats, but become huge.
However, it is true that when we eat a lot of animal protein, human growth will be faster. It is believed that the recent pace of growth of children is fast, because the intake of animal protein has increased.
However, there is a catch here in consuming animal protein. It changes to a phenomenon called "aging" when it exceeds a certain age "growth". In other words, the animal food let the growth speed up, but is a diet that accelerates aging.

  # by felizson-ador | 2012-12-01 11:52 | Life

Were we created by or did we creat gods?

This is just my opinion:
There is something that controls our minds: religion. It was "created" by human brains, because of human weaknesses, it's natural that we need it, in fact we are always threatened by fears, so we have a desire to be beside gods.
Maybe I'm wrong and "we" were created by gods and they do in fact hold our minds, but it doesn't matter if it's true or not - like our space, outer space itself, it's an unknown thing for us as we can never know any truth about them.
I don't deny the religious things but I am an agnostic more than being an atheist. But now, there is something that has controlled us more: money. Because of the desire to have a materially richer life, we are less faithful. And it is true because our lives are saved by money, not by gods but by the medicine bought with money. Maybe faith could save our minds, but not real lives. And clearly the education that comes with money also can save our lives from the dangers in this world.

And then especially what has confused women: men. Probably men might say they are confused by women, but regarding our instincts, a male's selfishness even kills female, See the polar bear's life! Male bears even kill their babies..
(Perhaps I'm being controversial - human aren't polar bears, but just because I really love polar bears, and I needed add this emotional example!)
Women are more prudent in relationships for offspring, however love can't be controlled by money.

I've Read and had my thoughts about the words of Yogi Bhajan

"Marriage - Honoring the Word"

It is an ingrown desire of a woman to become a mother. Bij mantra serab ko gian. The very seed of the mother has the knowledge to be a mother. To fulfill this desire, she has the desire to mate with a male. With these two strong desires there is a very powerful desire in every woman’s heart to have comfortable, cozy and secure environments. Also, you will be surprised that as long as you ovulate you have a desire to look pretty. This desire is called washna. Washna means: a very subtle desire in the subconscious mind. Consider that if this desire of the subconscious mind did not exist in a woman, no woman would ever marry a man. All these houses and cities do not come because men ever desired them. Fundamentally, by nature, man doesn’t believe in a home. I am just giving you the psychological differences so that you can basically and truthfully understand your role in relationship with the role of a male. These roles are not the same at all. If it were left to men, you all would be living with a backpack. To have a home, to have protection, to have security, save some money, save some food, all this paraphernalia is the invention of a woman’s subconscious mind. Therefore, it is very correct when they say woman is the axle of human society. Man comes home when necessity brings him; woman goes out of the house when necessity takes her out. These subtle differences of in the subconscious are supposed to be very well known by us..

Marriage is to lose yourselves into one another. It is the process of amalgamation. If you put copper and zinc together, you’ll end up with a new alloy – brass. There is neither copper nor zinc. In the institution of marriage two people become totally inter-merged. They lose their basic properties and come out with a common alloy which is socially known as a married couple, with totally different virtues and different allocations of duties in life.


My goal is to be myself and to have peace of mind, avoiding conflicts within my life, while spreading a positive attitude to those around me, and in effect, surrounding myself with an inspiring protective barrier.

And I've been reading the book The book seller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad.

The following quote is an excerpt of the wiki for the book;
As well as giving a historical account of events in Afghanistan as democracy is established, Seierstad focuses on the conditions of Afghan women who still live very much under the domination of men—Afghan traditions allow for polygamy and arranged marriage. She also addresses the conflict between westernization and traditional Islam, and gives an accessible account of Afghanistan's complex recent history under the rule of the USSR, the Taliban and coalition-supported democracy.


Were we created by or did we creat gods?_e0189137_1610229.jpg What made surprised me was the custom of putting on the entire burka. It started with the selfishness of one of the kings, to prevent other men of seeing the beauty of more than 200 women around him. It's become a symbol of wealth for women, and has also become a fashion statement. Recently the custom has been used for controlling a woman's life. The Taliban has begun to force women to wear entire burkas, after realizing that females were gaining a semblance of political power.

Aside from that, one week ago I learned the word Anthropocene, I recently attended a symposium about it at the National University in Singapore. It was a bit difficult for me to understand, but it's really interesting. I wonder how come human think that they are the center of the earth.. I'm very interested in the impact that humans have on the world, and wasn't aware that it had become a scientific epoch.

I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it "vandalism", but when we destroy something created by nature we call it "progress". -Ed Begley Jr.


  # by felizson-ador | 2012-09-24 16:24 | Life

Garioa Eroa

We can't choose our parents or the place where we are born. The environment
decides everything: our characters, religions, jobs etc.
It's not a problem, we are just creatures on earth who happen to have a
brain for advanced studies.

I watched the film "Son of Babylon". The plot is as follows:

The film is set initially in Northern Iraq, 2003, two weeks after the fall
of Saddam Hussein. Ahmed, a 12-year-old boy, begrudgingly follows in the
shadow of his grandmother. On hearing news that prisoners of war have been
found alive in the South, the grandmother is determined to discover the fate
of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from the Gulf war in
1991. From the mountains of Kurdistan to the sands of Babylon, they hitch
rides from strangers and cross paths with fellow pilgrims, on all too
similar journeys. Struggling to understand his grandmother's search, Ahmed
follows in the forgotten footsteps of a father he never knew. They also go
to mass graves, where they ask if he is on the list of identified bodies,
and look for papers on the bodies.




The director, Mohamed Al-Daradji, has been kidnapped by Al-Qaeda twice, and
was sent to prison by the US army for 5 days while he was shooting the film.
It was really hard to make a film at that time. He told us in the interview,
if he wasn't an Iraqi, he wouldn't have filmed it.
The protagonist is a young boy who can speak Kurdish and Arabic because of
his parents, and he had never watched a movie. The actress for the part of
Ahmed's grandmother had lost her husband 22 years ago in a real war, and
also lost her son during her 5 years in jail. The reason why the director
chose her for the film, was because she told her life story to him without
crying..

In Benin, oil thieves are considered as heroes, because they steal from
Nigeria and sell gasoline at half of the regular price, but their work to
make the gasoline from oil is a deadly job. The Beninese can only afford to
buy cheap gasoline, and this combination of putting their lives at risk, so
ordinary people can afford gasoline, is why they are called heroes.

So, it was the Benin's common sense - but what is the normal life and the
common things for us, for Japanese, and for others? After we are born, we
are fed and given clothes, and live in a house has a roof... and then we
are educated. And for most of us Japanese to get light, gas and water is
easy and we can waste lots of things. If we are in a richer family, we can
get more information, we can even be brainwashed by so much information from
the media etc., and this can be our common sense - we can acquire more
knowledge to attain a high standard of living and a long life.

I've read the books of Tagore, Sen, etc. and tried to understand what is the
source of the bad situations in the world. It seems that even when the
answers are perfectly known, we can't swim against the stream of this
complicated world. It's natural that people never stop desiring to have
finer lives, however I feel that we desire a broken world. It may not be
what we think we desire, but that's the end result.

I've read also books of Jim Rogers who is an investor and self promoter.
According to his view, especially about Africa situation, we should cancel
all the continent's current debts of US$350bn, and start to invest in
building new institutions to develop the poor countries. Otherwise they'll
be trapped in poverty, with all wealth diverted to repaying debt.

In pre-colonial Africa, there wasn't an idea of "Nations", and the continent
wasn't divided into a relatively small number of large countries as it is
now. Not just in Africa but in future the numbers of countries must be
increased.

Regarding religious problems, different religious have never helped each
other, especially Islam and Christianity. It is unlikely that Christian
countries like US can resolve problems in the middle East. It's better to
be helped by Muslim countries like Turkey.. No one must see the normal
people are involved and suffering anymore.

I've tried to see as much of the world as I can over the last 10 years, to
look for my desire, but I still don't get the answers I was looking for. But
what I found is that the poor can't help the poor, and therefore only the
rich have a power to control - and improve - this world. From ancient times,
there were the dictators and the slaves and although this is still true,
we have smarter brains though..

The world keeps going on in an increasingly democratic way. I wonder if it
will work for all the countries or not, but I believe it so. If the answer
is that more money can help the poor, the rich must concentrate on the
problems, not always thinking about making themselves more rich.
If more Love could help this world, I believe that not only the rich but
everyone can help the poor.


In Pokhara Nepal while I was gliding, I was thinking about the words of a
Japanese businessman who had worked as the chief engineer of a multinational
building company, in 126 countries, over 30 years (for example, he built the
bridge over the widest river in Vietnam, etc.).
He said to me: "I used to think I was an Artist of the earth, but now I feel
I am a Destroyer of the earth"
.

Garioa Eroa_e0189137_16153458.jpg

The guy on the glider!

Japanese are especially respectful of architecture, and it's one of our
strong skills. After the big earthquakes and natural disasters, we can
reconstruct everything. But Nature is nature, and is more powerful than
even our powers.

Recently I'm thinking that I wanted to be an animal, because sometimes
humans are so ugly in this earth. I don't like to be surrounded by human
technology - where a mobile phone, a computer or a car became the
necessities of life. But I follow it.. I just don't want to forget that
there are still those who choose natural life like the Mayas. They have just
put on modern clothes but still live close to nature.


And my last thought: in Cambodia, a Japanese woman who lost her husband in
Senegal at a very early time of her life, built a Japanese restaurant for
"the rich" despite not being a professional cook (I saw there are even
customers who have a $10,000 mobile phone there.). The restaurant is doing
good business, and she has built a Japanese school, looking after 10 adopted
children, and sending 7 students in Japan to study paid for with her own
money. She often stays up to make small lunch boxes for the next day for
the Japanese school students. She is thinking to donate all her profits to
the poor children in Cambodia.
Why did she decide to do it? The first time she visited Cambodia after the
husband death, she entered a restaurant, 2 poor children followed her asking
for food.

So what we see is that we are as blind as "Love" to world facts. If we have
an easy life, we never have the eyes to see the facts of our richness. We
think that it's normal for us.
I knew that just 65 years ago, Japan was provided assistance of GARIOA fund
(Government Appropriation for Relief in Occupied Area Fund) and
EROA fund (Economic Rehabilitation in Occupied Area Fund).
It was the greatest help from the USA.


How will babies who will be born in future think about this complicated world?

  # by felizson-ador | 2012-07-17 16:16 | Life

Declaration of Peace-Nawa Cumig

Nawa Cumig which is the American Indian name of Dennis Banks means the center of the universe. Since last year I've stuck on the word "Universal Law". what is it..?

10 years ago I watched a documentary film "Hopi prophecy" and I knew that about the atomic bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the uranium was dug from the Holy Land's of the oldest American Indian people, the Hopi.

And now I am reading a book "Ojibwa Warrior"(死ぬには良い日だ). and knew that in 1978 people had The longest walk which was planned and organized by the American Indian Movement.


Hopi Declaration of Peace
by Thomas Banyacya
(Interpreter for the Traditional Hopi People)


It is in the Power of the True Hopi People to unify the minds and spirits of all true peace seeking peoples of the earth.

"Hopi" means "Peaceful People".... and the truest and greatest power is the strength of Peace is the Will Of The Great Spirit..

But do not think that just because the True Hopi People have been told by the Great Spirit never to take up arms that the True Hopi People will not fight.......Even die for what we know to be the right way of Life.

The true Hopi People Know how to fight without killing or hurting

The True Hopi People know how to fight with Truth and Positive Force in the Light Of The Great Spirit

The True Hopi People Know how to Educate by clear thoughts... good pictures...and by carefully chosen words...

The True Hopi People Know how to show to all the world's Children the True Way of Life by setting and example....by working and communicating in a way that reaches the minds and hearts of all people who are truly seeking the methods of a sample and spiritual Life which is the only Life that will survive..

THE TRUE HOPI PEOPLE PRESERVE THE SACRED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE WAY OF THE EARTH BECAUSE THE TRUE HOPI PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE EARTH IS A LIVING AND GROWING PERSON AND ALL THINGS ON IT ARE HER CHILDREN.

The True Hopi People Know how to show the Right Way of Life to all the world's people who have ears to listen... who have eyes to see... and who have hearts to understand these things...

The True Hopi People Know how to generate enough Power to link up the forces of the Minds and Spirits of all the True Children of the earth......and to Unify them with the Positive Force and the Great Spirit so that they may put an end to affliction and persecution in all afflicted places in this world.

THE TRUE HOPI PEOPLE DECLARE THAT HOPI POWER BE A FORCE WHICH WILL BRING ABOUT WORLD CHANGE.

WE BELIEVE THAT ALL THINGS ARE ALIVE THAT THEY HEAR AND UNDERSTAND US.

The Hopi live in a barren land, but we believe that we were led there by the spirit "Maasauu". Our role is to preserve certain knowledge for all mankind: Knowledge necessary for the understanding and preservation of all Nations. "


* Thomas Banyacya died February 6, 1999, in Hopi Land.


Declaration of Peace-Nawa Cumig_e0189137_8505575.jpg

ホピ平和宣言
起草者 トーマス・バニヤッカ 伝統派ホピ一族通詞

この地球において、真の平和を求めるすべてのひとびとの、頭とスピリットとをひとつにまとめるものが、ほんとうのホピの力のなかにはある・・・

「ホピ」とは「平和にあふれたひとびと」を意味する・・・そして、最も純粋かつ偉大な力とは平和の力である・・・なぜなら平和は「偉大なる精霊のご意志」なのだから・・・

だが、それをたんに、偉大なる精霊がけして武器を取らないようにといわれたからだとか・・・ほんとうのホピは争はないのだからだとか・・・われわれがいのちの正しい道として知っているもののために死ぬこともいとわないのだとか、考えたりしてはならない。

ほんとうのホピは、殺すことも、傷つけることもなく、闘うすべを知っている・・・

ほんとうのホピは、偉大なる精霊の御光のなか、真理と良き力とを用いて、闘うすべを知っている・・・

ほんとうのホピは、明晰な思考と・・・良い絵や写真・・・そして厳密に選ばれた言葉とによって、いかに教育をすればよいのかを知っている・・・

ほんとうのホピは、質素でスピリチュアルないのちの道をーー生き残るであろうただひとつのいのちの道をーー真に探し求める人たちひとりひとりの頭と心に届くように働きかけ、伝えていくことで、いかに世界のすべての子どもたちに、ほんとうのいのちの道の手本をみせるかを知っている・・・

ほんとうのホピが、地球で生きるための聖なる知識を絶やさないでいる理由は、地球が、ひとりの生きて成長しつつある人であること・・・そしてそのうえにあるいっさいのものが、彼女の子どもたちであることを・・・ほんとうのホピが知っているからだ・・・

ほんとうのホピは、聞く耳をもち・・・見る目をもち・・・そうしたことを理解するハートをもつ世界のすべてのひとびとに・・・正しいいのちの道を示してみせるそのやり方を知っている・・・

ほんとうのホピは、真の地球の子供たち全員の頭とスピリットの勢いをひとつにまとめあわせるにたる力を、いかにすれば呼び覚ませるか・・・いかにすればその人たちを偉大なる精霊の良き力とつなぎあわせることができるか・・・その結果この世界の苦しめるすべての場所において、苦痛と迫害に終止符を打つことができるかを知っている・・・

ほんとうのホピは、ここに、ホピの力こそが、世界に変化をもたらす原動力であることを、宣言するものである。

われわれは、すべてのものが生きており、われわれの声を聞き、われわれを理解していると信じる。

ホピは不毛の大地に暮らしてはいるが、われわれは、われわれが「マーサウ」と呼ぶスピリットによってこの地に導かれたことを信じる。われわれの役割は、ある種の知識を、全人類のために絶やさないようにすることであり、この知識は、すべての(先住民の)国々を理解し存続させ続けるために必要不可欠なものである。




デニス・バンクス、日本への祈り 石川史江訳
  ~福島原子力発電所の危機的状況の中で~

アメリカ合衆国は現在の気違いじみた原子力産業の即時操業停止を、深刻に考えなければならない。原子力が我々の手に負えないものである事を認識すべきだ。
アメリカ合衆国は、現在カリフォルニア、ニューヨーク、ペンシルベニア、アメリ
カ南西部ロス・アラモスなどにある原子力発電所及び関連施設を、即刻調査し閉鎖する必要がある。

1978年のロンゲストウォーク以来、我々は様々な所を訪れて、原子力の悪をアメリカ世論に訴え続けて来た。デザート・タートル・ロック、グランド・キャニオンなど。グランド・キャニオンでは現在、ウラニウム採掘による地下水への放射能流出が問題になっている。

40年前我々は、アメリカ最大のウラニウム採掘場、ニューメキシコ州グランツにあるジャック・パイル鉱山で、採掘に反対して大きな抗議行動を行なった。
そして45年、50年経た現在、警告して来た事が起こってしまった。日本の福島原子力発電所の危機的状況だ。我々は危険を予測する科学者のつもりはないが、ともかくも現在それが起こっている。

アメリカはじめ世界中の国の政府、首脳が、母なる地球を管理するのは不可能な事だと認識するのは、一体いつになるのか。母なる地球からウラニウムのような鉱物を採掘して、我々の理解を超える産業を発展させようなど、無理な事なのだ。
未来はある。しかしもちろん、今までとは全く違った新しい視点で、我々の暮らしを創り出さなければならない。どのように母なる地球を培い、どう培われていくか。それが始まったとしても、真の実現のためにはかなりの時間がかかるだろう。

現在のアメリカ社会は、「不動産」と「お金」でがんじがらめになっているからだ。我々の地球を母なる地球として認識しよう。母なる地球は、我々に食べ物を与えてくれる。新しい次世代にとって、食べ物の自給自足は、とても大切な課題となる。

巨大な企業に食料供給の管理を任せるのは、とても危険だ。
巨大な食料産業は、種の管理を進めている。我々が現在反対している問題に、遺伝子組み換えのワイルド・ライスがある。ミネソタ大学では、ワイルド・ライスのDNAを取り出そうと試みている。本物のトウモロコシのためにも闘っている。工場で技術者によって作られたトウモロコシは、食料とはなるが種にはならない。
植物を育てるためには、毎年別に種を買わなければならない。自然に生息するワイルド・ライスとは少し異なる。

未来を担う技術者も、そして新しい時代を生きるインディアンも、何が人類にとって正当な事か、何が七世代後の子供達にとって大切な事かを考えなければならない。今日、明日の事だけでなく、我々は常に150年先を見越して、今を決定しなければならない。多くの人がその様になれば、それ自体が希望となり、素晴らしい未来が開けるだろう。

  # by felizson-ador | 2012-02-14 09:33 | Life

Il mio alticolo

Meravigliosa,
di meraviglie
nascoste

Per i giapponesi, l’Italia è uno dei luoghi ideali nel mondo. Moda, design, gastronomia, calcio, rovine: sono tante le cose da apprezzare. Ma la ragione per cui i giapponesi hanno un’immagine così positiva del vostro paese può dipendere dal fatto che in Giappone siamo bombardati da grandi campagne pubblicitarie sull’Italia.
Non basterebbe un mese intero per riuscire a vedere e a provare tutte le cose che dell’Italia ci raccontano. E in realtà la maggior parte dei turisti giapponesi attraversa l’Italia da nord a sud in meno di una settimana o dieci giorni. Di solito passano uno o due giorni a Milano, appena in tempo per vedere la Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, il Duomo, il Castello Sforzesco, e per fare un po’ di shopping e di vita notturna, e il giorno dopo proseguono il viaggio in pullman o in treno.
A volte mi sembra che per questi turisti sia più importante il rito scaramantico del giro del tallone sul toro in Galleria che una visita alla Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie e al Cenacolo vinciano.
I giapponesi che vengono a Milano sono interessati alle tendenze e alla moda e si fermano in città perché vogliono conoscere la realtà di oggi, l’Italia moderna (per non parlare delle partite di calcio, che sono una delle maggiori attrazioni della città per molti ragazzi giapponesi).
Anche se preferisco il verde alla città, anch’io – come i miei compatrioti – ero molto curiosa di conoscere Milano, e non avevo idea di cosa avrei trovato all’infuori delle immagini trasmesse dalle pubblicità.

Quando ormai mi trovavo in città da un mese, durante il mio primo viaggio, ho scoperto che Milano non è solo ricca di opere d’arte, ma è un’opera d’arte in sé: l’architettura, i negozi di moda, l’eleganza dei milanesi, il loro modo di godersi la vita, pranzando e parlando insieme nei bar e nei ristoranti.
Milano mi ha veramente affascinato. Avevo anche visitato Roma ma penso, come molti altri giapponesi, che Milano, con il suo stile di vita moderno, sia per certi aspetti più bella della vostra capitale.
Ho poi scoperto una delle bellezze nascoste della città: i cortili, dietro i grandi portoni delle case, che erano stati costruiti per i cavalli e le carrozze – piccole piazze nascoste dietro la facciata della città.
Da quel momento ho imparato che a Milano molti tesori si trovano dietro le quinte. Mostre, incontri, feste, dibattiti. Milano è molto vivace, le persone amano tenere le case aperte e discutere di molti argomenti.
All’inizio pensavo che gli abitanti del Nord fossero un po’ più conservatori, ma ho capito che dopo tutto sono italiani e che hanno la stessa allegria e la tipica mentalità aperta di molti abitanti dell’Italia meridionale. Di Milano ho un ricordo gioioso, forse perché non ho mai veramente provato il lato oscuro e aggressivo della città che alcuni miei amici mi hanno raccontato.

La mia seconda visita a Milano è durata tre mesi. Era inverno e la città mi ha accolto con freddezza. Era tutto nero. Amo la moda italiana, ma a volte è troppo algida, esageratamente impeccabile e perfetta.
Mi sembra che i milanesi amino molto vestirsi di nero in inverno, al punto che non solo indossano cappotti neri, ma anche scarpe e guanti neri. Ho avuto l’impressione di trovarmi di fronte a qualcosa di oscuro e freddo. In metropolitana, mi sembrava di guardare dentro a un camino. Paragonando lo stile milanese a quello giapponese, il numero di indumenti neri era così elevato che mi ha fatto quasi stare male.
Nel corso di questa seconda visita ho capito che, nonostante al primo impatto la città appaia bella, in realtà presenti molti problemi. Non conosco bene le faccende politiche ma, dal mio punto di vista, l’atteggiamento dei milanesi nei confronti degli immigrati è duro e rasenta il razzismo. Mi chiedo se dipenda dal vostro passato di conquistatori ai tempi dell’impero romano. Probabilmente in Italia (come in molti altri posti) è normale, ma in Giappone raramente vediamo i tanti immigrati che lavorano così duramente per salari oltremodo bassi. Ho iniziato a distinguere i diversi colori della città, le tinte forti del Nord e dell’Africa occidentale e i colori più delicati dei paesi arabi.
Un giorno il mio sguardo è stato catturato dai braccialetti portafortuna esibiti da grandi mani africane, un altro giorno dai venditori di rose sulle strade. Tutto questo mi ha fatto riflettere.
Ho conosciuto molte comunità e ho scoperto che hanno tutte una loro “specialità”: i muratori provengono principalmente dai paesi dell’Est, in particolare dalla Romania, i negozi e i ristoranti sono gestiti dai cinesi (in particolare quelli giapponesi) e dagli africani, le badanti sono prevalentemente sudamericane o filippine. Per comprare i prodotti alimentari giapponesi dovevo andare in via Paolo Sarpi, dove ho scoperto con sorpresa che a Milano vivono molti cinesi che si sono costruiti una città nella città. In quell’angolo di città mi hanno sempre scambiata per cinese e mi è sembrato che questo popolo, con la sua forza, riesca a costruirsi ovunque uno spazio proprio, conservando però una mentalità ristretta.

Oggi, lavorando in Cina, le dinamiche di questo popolo mi sono un po’ più chiare. Nel complesso, ho pensato che a Milano ci fosse una grande mescolanza di colori, non meno di quella di una grande metropoli come New York.
Mi ha sorpreso assistere a così tanti scioperi; in Giappone non ne vediamo mai, o solo raramente. I paesi africani si stanno sollevando contro i loro governi e ci sono molte dimostrazioni.
È interessante vedere che in Italia, su scala ridotta, si fa lo stesso, ma quasi mensilmente. L’esperienza di trovarmi per la prima volta coinvolta in una dimostrazione è stata strana ed eccitante. Mi è piaciuta la sensazione del “potere nelle mani della gente”, riunirsi per affermare le proprie idee. Mi sono trovata qualche volta nelle piazze affollate e ho avvertito un flusso vitale. Dovremmo importare questo modello in Giappone e iniziare a contestare il nostro governo!
Ho amato i mercati. Ho visto i mercati sulle strade di molti altri paesi, ma forse non si pensa di poterne vedere in una città moderna come Milano.
Certo, se li confrontiamo ai lindi negozi giapponesi, i mercati di Milano sono più simili a quelli dei paesi del Terzo Mondo. I venditori ambulanti sono molto vivaci e urlano tutto il tempo, infilando con gesti bruschi la frutta e la verdura nei sacchetti di plastica (impensabile per noi giapponesi) e, se fossi stata nel mio paese, non so se l’avrei apprezzato.
A Milano, invece, era uno spettacolo bello. Ho trovato, girando per i mercati, un giornalino giapponese piuttosto vecchio in una bancarella di libri usati e al suo interno c’era un vecchio diario. Mi è sempre piaciuta la chiusura del mercato, quando i venditori, con le cassette, gli scatoloni vuoti e i rifiuti, fanno delle autentiche opere d’arte prima dell’arrivo delle macchine per la pulizia delle strade.

La terza volta a Milano mi sono fermata per altri tre mesi e mi sono finalmente abituata in parte ai vostri pasti (il cibo italiano, ricco di grassi, può essere difficile da digerire per un giapponese) e al vostro stile di vita. Il problema del famoso cibo italiano è che non è poi così sano come dicono, sicuramente non quanto quello giapponese. D’altra parte, lo stile di vita italiano è fantastico, immensamente meno stressante di quello del mio paese.
È da tempo ormai che giro in Europa e nel mondo, e quello che posso dire è che gli italiani vivono bene e si godono davvero la vita in confronto agli altri: si divertono, mangiano bene, si riposano e conversano, anche se in un posto come Milano non c’è molto verde. Ma esso si può raggiungere facilmente con un breve spostamento. Dal punto di vista giapponese, gli italiani vivono in modo quasi lussuoso. Naturalmente ci sono dei problemi e c’è povertà anche in Italia, ma noi giapponesi, per esempio, lavoriamo moltissimo senza che ci siano concesse vacanze.
A Tokyo si vedono persone che dormono in piedi in metropolitana o che fumano 100 sigarette al ristorante dopo un lungo giorno di lavoro. La qualità della nostra vita sembra molto inferiore a quella italiana.
Anche se, nonostante tutto, non penso che un giapponese vorrebbe scambiare la sua vita con quella di un italiano. Siamo troppo abituati a noi stessi per cambiare.

  # by felizson-ador | 2011-11-30 22:30 | World

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