Upload: 15 July 2019, Last update: 17 July 2019

Some of people made great achievements or famous celebrities sometimes meet Prime Minister or President.

Megan Rapinoe, co-captain of US women national soccer team, in her interview by CNN available and posted on 9 July 2019 on their YouTube mentioned that “it’s an opportunity … to sort of put us on display as their you know sort of guest for the day and I don’t think that makes sense for us at all”[1]. This excerpt is just a part of her interview and the full-interview was really impressive including her message to president.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tweeted on 12 May 2019 that he met Japanese popular entertainment group TOKIO[2].

I understand that inviting those who made great achievements is on one hand to celebrate what they have accomplished, I do not say that celebrities should not meet PM/President but every citizen and those who might be invited should keep in mind that there’s another possible reason as Megan Rapinoe told.

[1] CNN. Rapinoe’s message to Trump: You need to do better for everyone. Posted on 9 July 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X5ixs8Nsd0 Accessed 15 July 2019

[2] Shinzo Abe’s tweet on 12 May 2019. https://twitter.com/AbeShinzo/status/1127484372456599555?s=20 Accessed 16 July 2019

Upload: 8 July 2019, Last update: 14 July 2019

These days, nationalism/anti-globalization is getting powerful — the politics of Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen and Rassemblement National (RN) in France, and the movement of Brexit, to name a few.

Upload: 1 July 2019, Last update: 16 July 2019

Notre Dame Cathedral got fired around 6:50pm on 15 April 2019[1]. This incident got international attention. It triggered the further anger of Yellow vests demonstrators.

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/video/2019/04/15/notre-dame-de-paris-les-images-de-l-incendie_5450570_3224.html Accessed 25 May 2019

Upload: 24 June 2019, Last update: 25 June 2019

Conformity is one of the characteristics Japanese society has besides obedience and homogeneity.

Recently I saw quite a lot of coverage over the primary-school-age youtuber Yutabon[1]. As far as I know, he goes to primary school when he wants and in other cases skip classes explaining one of the reasons is that for example, other students looked like “robots” since they obey the instructions of teachers.

There are many harsh comments on his YouTube channel as well as some articles on the Internet which look more verbal-attacking rather than constructive ones. It seems to me that he wants to spend time more actively, not just obeying what teachers say to him.

At present everyone can learn even if they do not go to school. It may be not suitable for him to be educated at school. There is a case of home-schooling in US, so going to school is the only way way to learn. I think there is a best way for each person.

Recent years, the word diversity is one of the key words. Increasing diversity has an aspect of being a trigger that a society to develop as the different values people encounter comes in. When people has the same opinion in a society, the orientation of a society tend to be fixed in a way. However, if we accept different values from outside, that can be a chance to go beyond the existing framework.

We tend to focus on diversities from outside of a community. Diversities that I define as different values are absorbed into a society. That is happening worldwide. But as the globalization progresses, the world becomes more homogenous. That is because uniqueness of culture and whatsoever in limited area becomes commonsense after it goes across borders.

It ends up with convergence of diversity in global level — that is to say that different values existed all over the world are shared and becomes not surprising ideas to human beings. I suggest that the internal diversification is necessary for further development as I wrote in a previous article titled “Internal diversification in a society — education encouraging internal diversity“.