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Profession: English Teacher, Associate Professor, Kyushu University

Age: 42

DOB: March 4th, 1962 (The Year of the Tiger)

Sign: Pisces

Lucky Number: 7

Hobbies

• Skiing (Used to work at Sugar Bowl Ski Resort in Norden, California. At present like to ski at Ontake in Nagano, Japan.
• Playing Guitar
• People Watching
• Languages (Japanese, Italian, French, and Bahasa Indonesian--In that order)
• Traveling (Have been to Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesian, Fiji, France, Italy, England, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, and The Neatherlands.)
• Computers (I have an iBook G4 at Home and a Dell at the Office)

• Teaching (I am a TESOL teacher at Kyushu University)

• Al Pacino
• Robert Deniro
• Meg Ryan
• Bridget Fonda
• Linda Fiorentino
• Keanu Reeves
• Cameron Diaz
• Johnny Depp

• The Matrix
• Something about Mary
• A Few Good Men
• Scent of a Women
• French Kiss
• Dune
• Chocolat

• SuperTramp
• Steve Miller
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• U2
• ZZ Top
• Pink Floyd
• Outback
• The Grateful Dead
• Jeff Beck

• Babylon 5
• ER

• Siddhartha
• On the Road
• The Social Animal
• Your Erroneous Zones
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

• Gorby
• Ghandi
• Nelson Mandella
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Paul Newman
• Einstein
  "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift"

• "Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing."

  -- John Dewey

• "Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community"

  --Albert Einstein

• "For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
  (from the closing speech at the Constitutional Convention of 1787)

  -- Benjamin Franklin

• "However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion, or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family."

  -- Gloria Steinem

• "What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself."

  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue."

  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Links to other sites on the Web

The Doyon Hotel in Quebec
Official Babylon 5 Web Site
World Learning/School for International Training (SIT)
How To Make a Homepage
World Alumni Net
The JALT (Japan Association of Language Teaching) WebSite

In contrast, the Japanese style, like the Japanese flag, favors the curve. To go around something rather than "straight to the point" is preferred. Points stick out. Points might injure someone. In Japan one takes care to avoid either eventuality.

Americans grow up with a whole set of negative expressions about the circular--"going around in circles," "beating around the bush," and the like. A circular style is distinctly unattractive. It suggests vague thinking or a fear of saying what one really means, both of which Americans criticize. It also seems inefficient. If Americans want to contact someone, it is a virtue to do so directly--the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

---John C. Condon
---From With Respect to the Japanese

Last updated on January 15th, 2005 Copyright (C) 1998 by PAUL DOYON, Wow! Already 7 years have passed since I started this page.

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