Kindergarten Graduations in Japan!!
Added 2024-03-20 01:18:03 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTgHZ2FMxA
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Thanlks, Brian. Yes, overall. the organized and behaved aspects of Japanese society are actually one of the reasons I prefer to live here. Consideration of the group and those around over the desire to bring attention to individuals or making it all about one's self. Orderly.
TheJapanChannel.com
2024-03-20 03:43:41 +0000 UTCFirstly, congratulations, to Mom and Dad. They do grow up quickly, don't they? Was this your first to graduate from elementary school? I expect there'll be a few more tears to come, eh? Good job to all! Secondly... oh, boy, where do I begin? Speaking as a guy who has been to many graduation ceremonies, I'm looking at this and thinking there are some pretty good lessons going on, here. Ehh... the regimented, militarized proceedings I could do without (speaking as a former military guy). But the kids are learning about a proper sense of occasion, about solemnity, about formality... Sure, the school could take it down a few notches from "eleven" to maybe a seven or eight... Otherwise, I'm all for it. Because if you've never seen the utter circuses that are graduation ceremonies here in contemporary North American society... they are really something. Absolute bedlam. You've got shouting and screaming... You've got parents and former students HECKLING... You've got teens awkwardly trying to pull off some kind of antic which -in the adolescent mind- will earn them a plaque on the wall of the school, forever commemorating them as the "Greatest Jokester of All Time" at which visitors in later years will read about the "Great Johnny X and that time he did Y and Z up on stage at graduation", and clutch their pearls in envy and admiration. It's chaos. Picture a video entitled, "Graduation Ceremonies at the Local Penitentiary" and you'll get the idea. There was one year when they booed a senior teacher who wasn't terribly popular, and while up on stage he attempted to reprimand the audience by likening them to zoo animals (he wasn't entirely wrong) and promptly lost his job over it. I mean, it is just nuts, and completely bereft of any shred of decorum. So these wonderful tykes learning about an important sense of occasion such as this... It's not all bad. Big, BIG life lessons going on here, which is what makes Japan the place that everyone wants to come to as a tourist. "CIVILITY" is the operative word, here; something we in the West have lost. So, this Old Man gives it a "thumbs up". (Although... juuuust a couple of notches lower would be nice.) Congratulations to Otosan and Okasan once again! Well done to the Little'un. Growing up too quickly I should think, eh? Cheers, and all the best to the whole crew at TJC!
Brian Mack
2024-03-20 03:33:14 +0000 UTCThat is the feel of it. :-D
TheJapanChannel.com
2024-03-20 02:03:23 +0000 UTCA funeral with slippers!
Jerry Waker
2024-03-20 02:01:56 +0000 UTC
