from the eternal city
時事ネタは、書くのに何だか気が引けますが、学歴詐欺疑惑の政治家のKさん、とりあえずアメリカの大学で学ぶ学生としての感想はシンプルに３コです。ありえない、恥ずかしい、日本は平和だ、の３つ。理由は以下の通り。
1. ありえない。留学生ならだいたい分かると思いますが、アメリカの一般大学で、卒業したと思い込んで卒業してなかった、なんてことはまず起こらないですよね。よっぽどのバカか、確信犯かのどちらかですね。世の中は詐称だなんだと言ってますが、学歴をモトに収入を得るっぽい職業の場合はそれはもはや詐欺ですよねぇ。いずれにせよ、立派な人でないのは確かなので、政治家には向かない、と書こうとしたんですけれど、それで堂々といままで政治家としてやいたところを見ると、逆に、ほかの大事な仕事よりも政治家のほうが向いていたのかも、とちょっとイジワルに思います。
Continue reading “学歴詐欺”今日はThe Friday Fiveの日です。お題はこちら。
At this moment, what is your favorite…
1. …song?
2. …food?
3. …tv show?
4. …scent?
5. …quote?
私の答えは以下の通り。
As usual (?), I was watching a soap-opera-like LifeTime movie in this late afternoon. I just watched it about 15 minutes or so, so I am not sure if I’m getting this all right. But I’ll try explaining it anyway:
A beautiful black lady, looked like an elementary school teacher was accused of something, and some kind of board members tried to vote on something about her, possibly something like whether or not she could keep her job or sort of like that. A female defending attorney was giving a speech on the freedom of religion in the US and she said, almost shouting, “And she is not an atheist!” I guessed that the teacher was practicing some kind of religion that was not common and parents of her students did not feel easy about it. Then the attorney tried to convince people that the teacher was just a normal person, not like an “atheist.” The teacher believed in God, but just not the same God other people believed in.
The saying, “And she is not an atheist!” made me think. OK, that looked a whole big deal. But am I an atheist? If I have never given a serious thought about the presence of God(s), then would that make me an atheist?
I was born and raised in Japan. Lived about 23-4 years with no serious thinking about God(s). That’s so unfair, I thought. That’s the system I was in. Nobody really cares about it, even someone I really respect, like my dad and mom didn’t. Do I get judged by my background culture like this?
Honestly, I guess I’m rather in Agnosticism, I cannot talk about something I have never experienced. I don’t even know if I’d be able to know how to experience those kind of stuff. Then people in major religions go like “hmmm, Masami’s an atheist, how could we trust her?” I guess educated people would know that cultures can turn the almost “common” value-system upside down. So I think I don’t have to really worry about someone judging me of that kind. But what about me? I think I should be constantly aware of my culture and background to explain who I am and why I am like this, otherwise it’ll take a really long time to go figure out at once.
昨日はMartin Luther King Jr.の生誕記念日ということで（毎年第3月曜日にめぐってくるところをみると、厳密に誕生日というわけではないのでしょう）、テレビがいろいろな特集番組をやっていたり、スポーツのちょっとしたコメントにも演説ビデオクリップが流れたり、と何かしら考えさせられる日でした。
彼の、決して熱いとはいえない、どちらかというと諭すような演説を聞いていると、「絶望しなかった」人の強さを感じます。もうだめだ、私には力がない、もうできない、と思うのはとても辛いことのような気がしますが、実は、いやまだ頑張れる、私には力がある、と信じることのほうが、その何倍も、何十倍も難しくて辛いことのような気がする。
The Friday Fiveの日です。