<!-- 619.html -->  <div id="pagebody_outline">    <div id="left_box">      <div class="life_title_box">        <div class="life_titie_box_top">        <!-- Image -->        </div>        <div class="midashi">Multicultural Delivery⑥　In Scotland<br />Feeling uneasy in different culture<br /> </div>        <div class="life_titie_box_bottom">        <!-- Image -->        </div>      </div>      <div id="article">                  <div id="article_left">                        <img src="/english/images/life/619_life_03.jpg" width="140" />              <div><a href="http://www.rasc.jp/">http://www.rasc.jp/</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.yokosojapan.net/mt/archive/000355.html">Profile of Ms. Yukari Fujiwara</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.yokosojapan.net/mt/archive/000469.html">From U.K<br />~Recognition born in daily life~</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.yokosojapan.net/mt/archive/000504.html">Multicultural Delivery　Chinese　Woman　</a><br /> </div>                                                                      </div>                <div id="article_right">Recently I went to Glasgow, Scotland to participate in an academic conference.<br />I hear Japanese seldom be found there, but there have been more and more Japanophiles due to Japanese soccer players with excellent sporting achievements on the international stage.<br />There are Japanophiles, however, I faced high language and culture barriers.<br />This time I will talk about “uneasiness in different culture” which I actually felt there, not about delivery. <br /><br />The biggest trouble I encountered during this trip is I had never my suitcase delivered as previously arranged.<br />Scottish English is difficult for me, so I was not sure that I could make myself understood by people in Scotland correctly when doing formalities for entry.<br />In addition, their businesslike manners made me more uneasy and even sad.<br />In consequence, 2 days later, when it was not supposed to be delivered, the suitcase was delivered to me at midnight. However, I had been uneasy till I got it.<br />That’s because they were backtracking in trying to explain me and their ways were businesslike, not because I couldn’t make myself understood.  It’s different from the way in Japan.  This made me even irritated.<br /><br />Someone said to me, “I know you are at a loss without your luggage.  I try to have it delivered to you as soon as possible.”<br /><br />Though the situation never changed, this made me feel easy and even feel as if it moved toward resolution immediately.<br /><br />It’s important to feel that we are taken care of, even though we, each other cannot make ourselves understood completely.<br />That would relieve uneasiness, even though the difficult situation never changed.<br />I realized again that that was important for us.<br />It’s true of any location and any situation.<br />It’s desirable that a Japanese society where we help each other more when in trouble, regardless of our nationalities should be established.<br /> </div>        <div class="both10"></div>      </div>    </div>  <!-- end of left_box -->  </div><!-- end of pagebody_outline -->