<!-- 411.html -->  <div id="pagebody_outline">    <div id="left_box">      <div id="int_title_box">        <div id="int_titie_box_top"><!-- Image --></div>        <div id="midashi">It’s been a few years since I quit my job at a hospital.  When I think back, I have encountered so many deliveries and those experiences made me start working for mothers from foreign countries and their families.  I would like to start this column with talking about the reality of multicultural deliveries and reason I started.</div>        <div id="int_titie_box_bottom"><!-- Image --></div>      </div>      <div class="both10"></div>    <!-- MTinternational03 -->      <div>The hospital that I worked for as a fresh maternity nurse was really unique for its percentage of foreigners’ deliveries-one third of a monthly delivery.<br /><br />However, I had a bad impression about taking care of foreign women since it was troublesome as it took me longer time compared with the care of Japanese mothers.<br /><br />From the characteristics of the district, there were many Asian patients who spoke Chinese and Korean which were the languages unfamiliar to me and I even kept having my stereotype that we wouldn’t be able to understand each other.<br /><br />However, days made me change to have questions or interests in them.  I found that they talked about the things about delivery that I had never thought about, and did the things which I had never seen and could be seen as “crazy”.<br /><br />But after those talks or actions, they seemed like they were really relieved. <br /> I was shocked.  <br /><br />Honestly, so many kinds of feelings- surprise, unpleasantness, interests all came up to me at the exact same time.  <br /><br />Then I finally realized how indifferent I was and how narrow my view and knowledge was.  It took me many years until I got to realize it though.<br /><br />But thanks to those precious experiences, I ended up going to Australia to study intercultural nursing which definitely made what I am now.<br /> </div>      <div class="both10"></div>      <div id="int_box_left"><span class="font_b"><font color="#0033cc"><strong>English.Tagalog.Portuguese.Korean.Chinese</strong></font></span> </div>    <!-- MTinternational03 -->            <div class="both10"></div>      <div id="article">        <div id="article_left">                                  <img src="/english/images/international/411_international_08.JPG" width="140" />                                    <img src="/english/images/international/411_international_09.jpg" width="140" />                                    <img src="/english/images/international/411_international_10.jpg" width="140" />                                                      </div>      <!-- international_13 -->        <div id="article_right">The universal event, delivery is taken differently according to each culture.  They differ because the thing each culture thinks is the most important is a bit different.<br /><br />That means, at the same time, when you have valuable things, other culture also has theirs.<br /> <br />Next topic will be about the multicultural deliveries that I have encountered.<br /><br />I hope by knowing various kinds of deliveries, it will help you think about multi-culture and will lead you to “symbiosis”.<br /><br /><strong>RASC</strong><br /><a href="http://www.rasc.jp">http://www.rasc.jp</a> </div>      <!-- international_13 -->        <div class="both20"></div>      </div>    <!-- international_14 -->                          <!-- end of left_box -->    </div>  </div><!-- end of pagebody_outline --><!-- international_14 -->