スウエーデンの面白いものたち


by nyfiken
カレンダー
S M T W T F S
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31

Oprah Winfrey

Larry King show invited Oprah and asked her interview about the election.He asked her like this."Can a black man become the president of United state?"I myself feel so strange to Larry's question.Anyway she said she believed in that.And borrowing Mr.Larry King's word."A black man" has become president of United states.I feel so funny in this modern democratic country in USA, there could have this question.I feel in USA descrimination rstill emains so strongly.



Even when I was a girl, I felt strange the things in US military base.The american military base in Japan, I was invited to there(normally ordinary japanese are not allowed to go in the base if only we have special pass or allowance )since my mother demonstrated Japanese flower arrangement Ikebana at an international school,'s special lecture during Japanese cultural week she put on Kimono and showed flower arrangement to the school children and teachers.

And at that time, they showed inside of base.the swimming pool and the lake swimming places were actually divided by two .parts/One was for white, another was for black.I was confused as a girl, and then did not understand why one part was for white and one part for black pepoles even they were the same American.I asked adult (mother)the reason why.I could not understand what that meant.That was quite long time ago.Now of course it does not existe anymore and I want to believe so, but as most Japanese we were surprised to see the word Black and White , the city of America, one side of street are all white and another side is all black peoples' places something like that.Just a different culture ? just like china town, italian town or spanish town?



Oprah made a speech for Mr.obama and is a strong supporter for US president election campaine..We will know why she is so popular and peoples like so much even want to hear her saying and read her named magazine.

I find these words..Hope , optimism, encouragement, love, compassion.Shareness of hardship and openess with warmth.Peoples are fighting over many things, peoples are lonely even living in the bigcity with family.Loneliness, they feel no one understand them or no one love or nobody care for.She understands peoples' sorrow , hardship ..She tries to share the hardship and tries to help and encourage those peopels.TV audiences or readers also feel the same way and are encuraged by that.I feel a bit same way as OBAMA's aproach.Politics should not from the top, the eyes of politician should be the same level as ordinary peoples' .Politicians should not be the voice of only rich peoples or persons who have power and money.

From when all those top politicians are becoming buldogs' faces with arrogance.Politicians are selected by other busy peoples.They are not special, they are just spokesman from our peoples.Why suddenly they feel like they are nobles?THis election make all peopels feel this way.Ordinary peoples are busy and can not think about politics all the time.so we just want them to work for us.American model will spread all over the world.This is good phenomena.

When I watched her Oprah TV show, I recognize her popularity and somehow feel a kind of being encouraged.The life nowdays in the world no matter how young and how old, peoples are suffered from various reasons.Poverty, lack of love, loneliness, loss of loved persons , separation, work problem.humanrelationship, sickness, struggling the difficulties in life.The peopels seek the solucion on books, TV, movies , friends, families, internet and probably self.Everywhere, then Oprah is there for anyone.

Rich has their problem and Poor has their problem.When I go to sunday market sometimes central town in Stockholm , I find quite old bible late from early century.The cover was made by leather but torn out.The printed words looked quite old type of shapes.The papers were colored, faded.The last page cover's inside ...I find the name written so beautifully.The date.1867.I can not read those old swedish but I can guess.
I imagine how many generations since then, the daughter or son and their grandchildren have kept, but finally none can care, then that came to the Sunday market.I asked the price, The price is not expensive.

the old bible when electricity did not existe, probably dark winter time made peopels go to bed earlier, although after 3 PM in Sweden, around this time of the year November , outside is getting so dark so quickly.peoples must have used lamp or candle and I imagine they must have read bible at night.under the candel light.Probably the hardship of life would be the same or much harder.There were not so good medicine, so winter time many children were sick and did not have enough food during winter.

The hardship of life ...I imagine these days from the old bible..Probably peopels only could pray for the God to save them from that hard situation.church and God played great roles then more than nowdays.Just like buddism In Japan.

In Japan easy buddhism spread among ordinary uneducated peoples in oldern time.They were told, if only you pray and read the simple sentence, you wil be saved.Oldern time when peoples had problem, they just repeated the same sentences , asked God's help(buddha)BAsically the same.THey wanted to change their hardlife to better life, They wanted to have hope and they expect God to give them hope and change their life.

100 and 100 years later, now many peoples become less religious, and self ego oriented, but on the contrary, Now In America, peoples try to CHANGE their terrible past and try to make it better and try to have HOPE.Change and HOPE are key words from MR.OBAMA.

Economical crises, War involvment, Oil and energy problem, Rich have dominated the new world.Although now American dream can be understood in the different meanings.No matter which society they belongs, middle class, working classes, poor peoples, white or black, United states have to change since more than half are colored peopels from the third country originally.During bush administration, most middle class and poor peoples could not have any hope but giving up, Bush himself is from wealthy oil family in Texas typical succesful story in last many generations.Although new comners and poor immigrants could go to the war for money to save their family life , anxiety, fear.Just like Mrs.Obama said in her speech"America was leaded wrong way, peopeles are worrying , anxious, have too much anxiety, and fear , they shot gan due to fear.The mental structure of american peoples have to be changed to healthy mentality and have to overcome this kind of fear."I trully agree with her.

Oprah's popularity is easily understood since she is the one who encourage all those peoples , women who are struggling in life.She is the one who have compassion and open to peoples.American should be like that.WHite and Angrosaxon superiority should be end, and no matter which color or nationality , peoples should share the hardship and help each other, less war make better economy and equality.She is a good speaker and probably has a kind of charm and warmth to attract peopels after many times of her experiences.Of course she was not so good as nowdays when she started.Here is her speech at Stanford University this year.



Capitalism create fair competation and develop the country's economy, but american poormpeoples can be poorer than that in Africa, since they have no access to doctors.money talks loud america should be changed and should not be told NO!all the time.If peoples call USA as democratic country, probably now is the first time outside peoples feel that way.Change and HOpe.BAsically these two words --most peoples eager to obtain those two.especially Peoples in USA.They were sick and tired with BUsh administration.Oparah's magazine is avairable at most station stand shop in Sweden.Her positive attitude and enocouragement...especially weak and poor peoples.That should be required to all Japanese politician, now who can have hope in Japanese politics?To whom?I am too far from Japan and can not see any proper faces from Politician.in Japan.

As a famous Japanese journalist Tsukushi tetsuya passed away a few days ago, his edited magazine weekly friday is respectable fair magazine and quite high level articles.According to Mr.Tsukushi's article on Our Japanese primeminister candidates.All those small candies godis only are there, no one can be big evolutional politician in Japan .We are waiting for real hero, but our system might not produce real top politician since taller bamboo is always cut off beforehand.
by nyfiken | 2008-11-09 10:55