Japan Seven - Text
The subject is 25, female, Japanese, and a full-time college student finishing up her senior year. She was born and raised in Hamamatsu, Japan, and lived there until she was twenty, at which time she emigrated to America. She has lived in different parts of Orange County, California for the past five years. She started learning English when she was twenty at Irvine University.
TRANSCRIPTION
I was born in Hamamastu, Japan, and I learned in English, no, I learned English at UCI in California. And there was ESL, and I went to three quarters there, then I quit. Then I went to New York. Cause I wanted to go to school there. And I stayed in New York like a month, looking for school, then I came back because I didn’t want to live there. So, then I went to community college and I came to university. Oh Cal State Fullerton. Okay.
[What’s the difference between fashions here in the USA and in Japan?]
The difference between fashion in Japan and United States is that people in Japan doesn’t really know how to wear casual. Cuz they just dress up to go everywhere. Maybe they think, you know, that’s rude to wear casual, cuz that’s how I feel sometime. But then here, people just wear casual to go to school and to study, a lot. Japanese people doesn’t do, and yea I think that’s the difference. But then there’s nice fashion here too. You know, a lot of cute clothes. I don’t really like Japanese fashion so, yea I like it here.
Recorded by Elizabeth Nguyen, November 7, 2007
Running time: 05:08