Learn by looking at others

Today I’ve spent my whole day in the library studying for my mid-term in Biological Anthropology tomorrow. I love that class. It’s one of the few classes I’ve ever had that I actually don’t fall asleep under while trying to listen. My teacher Akiko Uchida, is super smart and what I’ve been told she graduated from Harvard and is now working at Waseda and Yale University. She’s added to my “people I admire” - list.
On Thursday and Friday we don’t have any classes, so I’ll try to do something fun but of course I have to study too. Probably I’ll go out window-shopping again.
David is coming to Tokyo soon! Great, we’re all going to the Sophia festival on Friday to watch Itsumi (Japanese girl who was in Uppsala too) dance. And on Saturday or Sunday Kai is taking me to the Waseda festival that is supposed to be fun.
I haven’t done much touristy things here in Tokyo, but maybe I’ll do some this weekend. If not I’ll do them when my mother comes in December.
Japanese girls amaze me, they’re always well dressed with perfect make-up and super high heels. I could never do that. I don’t think any Swedish girl could do that. They’re so small and pretty, you just want to hold them. Foreigner guys love them, but it’s not always good. It seems as if many Japanese girls get used by western guys. It makes me so mad and sometimes I feel ashamed being from a western country. Japanese people treat us so good here but some of us don’t respect them back. Japanese guys are not like western guys, they don‘t touch your private parts when you’re out dancing etc. In Sweden for example it’s common being harassed on the dance floor, you have guys all over disrespecting you and Swedish girls have “learned” how to defend themselves. But Japanese girls aren’t used to that so when a rude western guy comes and is all aggressive I can only imagine how hard it must be for a Japanese girl to tell him to leave her alone. You just don’t do that in Japan, it’s considered rude. And foreigners take advantage of that of course. Not all western guys, but many.
Another thing that makes me feel ashamed is how my country, Sweden, treats foreigners. Globalization is a fact in the world today but to me it seems as Sweden doesn’t invest (or doesn’t want to invest) in the people showing interest in our country. For example when I came here Waseda Uni. took such good care of me, but I don’t think Uppsala Uni. took as good care of Izumi, Rei and my other friends when they came to Sweden. They loved Sweden though, and they never say anything negative about Sweden but I still feel as if Sweden is loosing so much by not caring more. But not only foreigners coming to Sweden for a short period of time but also how people like me that have been born and raised in Sweden, how our country sees us. I’m seen as a problem in Sweden, something to be ashamed of. I’m not even referred to as Swedish, I’m “Second generation of immigrants”. Instead of seeing the potential in people coming from a multicultural background we drive them out of the country. There are people who know how much benefit there is when it comes to international relations but I think that they’re still in minority. I wonder when my country will realize that and start changing?