Integrative Narrative
Why I Choose This Major?
While growing up my father was always gone working late night graveyard shifts at his security job and so at that time me and my brother were always finding hobbies to keep ourselves busy while dad was out by getting into video games so one day I came across this one video game that happened to be a Japanese video game. As I kept walking my character through the video game I came across a lot of the aspects of the Japanese culture such as their religious beliefs in Shinto along with the traditional attires that they would wear such as the kimonos. I was thirteen at the time and because of playing that video game it gave me an interest into the Japanese culture and so I started to teach myself how to speak the language by using the internet and then started taking Japanese language classes in middle school and in high school that then continued through my college career life. As I started taking Japanese culture courses in college I began to grow an even greater interest in learning Japanese because of the social cultural rules that I began to become interested in such as the fact that the country of Japan acts more like a collectivist group rather than acting like a individualistic group like the United States acts like.
While growing up my father was always gone working late night graveyard shifts at his security job and so at that time me and my brother were always finding hobbies to keep ourselves busy while dad was out by getting into video games so one day I came across this one video game that happened to be a Japanese video game. As I kept walking my character through the video game I came across a lot of the aspects of the Japanese culture such as their religious beliefs in Shinto along with the traditional attires that they would wear such as the kimonos. I was thirteen at the time and because of playing that video game it gave me an interest into the Japanese culture and so I started to teach myself how to speak the language by using the internet and then started taking Japanese language classes in middle school and in high school that then continued through my college career life. As I started taking Japanese culture courses in college I began to grow an even greater interest in learning Japanese because of the social cultural rules that I began to become interested in such as the fact that the country of Japan acts more like a collectivist group rather than acting like a individualistic group like the United States acts like.