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Japan Forum (Wa-pedia) > Japan Forum > Modern Japan > Immigration & Foreigners > Why don't the Japanese differentiate more between foreigners ?
View Full Version : Why don't the Japanese differentiate more between foreigners ?
Sep 19, 2005, 16:26
Thread split from My Docomo experience (http://www.wa-pedia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19397)
Yes, I know of about 6 people like this, myself. I'm not surprised that a good number of Japanese don't trust foreigners. I think that in large part it's a reputation we deserve. I have huge sympathy for those of us just trying to make an honest living, though.
No, the sempiternal problem is that they do not differentiate between foreigners, although there are people from hundreds of countries in Japan, and many different social classes for each country. For me, no one falls in any category wider than "country+ethnic group+social class" (i.e. every person I meet has an etiquette with these 3 basic information). If the Japanese did the same, they would notice huge (I mean huge) differences between the so-called "foreigners" depending on the categories they fit in, and probably a clear trend for each group of people sharing the same 3 factors.
If you ask me which of an "upper-middle Indian from India" or a "lower class white Briton" would behave best in Japan, I would answer the first one without hesitation. Now, you ask me a middle-class white Belgian or a middle-class white Australian, I am pretty sure that the first one will behave better too. I know that from experience living in those countries. I have also analysed the raw crime rates by nationality for Japan (http://www.wa-pedia.com/society/foreign_crime_in_japan.shtml), although the ethnicity and social class are not mentioned (big factor in any country, but especially those with big gaps between the classes, such as the US or UK).
I find the idea of treating people differently based on their country of origin, ethnic group, and social class to be elitist and repugnant. For those of you keeping score, I'm JREF's resident conservative Republican.
I find the idea of treating people differently based on their country of origin, ethnic group, and social class to be elitist and repugnant.
I didn't say I would treat them differently. But it is certainly better (more accurate) to classify people (for statistical purpose) on these 3 criteria than just on "foreignness".
Anyway, elitism is justified in many ways. People are what they want to become. Everybody is free to educate his/herself and behave the way they want. However, they will be treated accordingly. Elitism is just doing the selection process of those judged to have tried harder than the others to become good citizens (i.e. well-behaved, honest, well-educated, reasonable, ethically correct, etc.). Without a sense of elitism, there would be no civilisation and people would go back to the dark ages.
But it is certainly better (more accurate) to classify people (for statistical purpose) on these 3 criteria than just on "foreignness".
Point taken. But since we live in Japan, for practical purposes I guess I choose to lump us all together as many Japanese seem to do. But that being said, not all foreigners are created equal. There are the "good" ones who behave and the "bad" ones who don't. As one bad apple spoils the lot, so do the "bad" foreigners make it difficult for the "good" ones.
IHHO we must never forget that unless we obtain citizenship we can not expect to be treated exactly the same as others. Even if we do obtain citizenship, we will still be part of a small minority of the population, and ignorance about our situation is unavoidable, and we will continue to face unequal treatment. Do I think this is right? Of course not. But that's just how it seems to be.
I agree with Mike Cash that we (meaning everyone in the world) should not treat people differently just based on their country of origin, ethnicity, class, etc., but that is an ideal. We live in reality, and in reality people do discriminate. In terms of foreigners, between two people on this thread alone, we know of at least a dozen other foreigners who bailed on their last month's bill of cel phone use. Do you know of any similar cases? If you do, then I think we can all agree to see the beginnings of a trend: foreigners have a high likelihood of not paying for at least their last month of cel phone service in Japan. Say what you will about the Japanese, they're not morons. They can see the same trend just as easily as anyone else. It's perfectly understandable that they would then change their behaviors accordingly.
On the language issue, what percentage of non-asian foreigners (chosen just because they look different) in Japan do you think are competent enough in both Japanese language and the local geography to answer someone's question about directions? I would guess not a high percentage. The person in your example made a reasonable assessment of the situation in my opinion. I have posted similar experiences, and yes, I too was not very happy. But I think we have to take it with a grain of salt and step back to see a bigger picture.
Was the registration of Jews and some certain others once upon a time in a certain European country based on some of your criteria, also just for statistical purposes?
You're confusing the personal struggle to be the best one can be with snobbery.
IHHO we must never forget that unless we obtain citizenship we can not expect to be treated exactly the same as others.
I may not be Japanese, but as a permanent resident married to a Japanese, speaking Japanese and knowing at least as much about Japan as most Japanese, I think it would be unfair to put me with the "tourists", as Mike call them.
We live in reality, and in reality people do discriminate.
Then they should do it better, based on stricter and more accurate criteria. For example, if people from "x country" steal a lot of bicycles in Tokyo, no need to stop people from "y country" (assuming they look distinctly different). What are statistics made for ? Contemplating ? That would be a bloody lot of money spent just for the Japan Statistical Bureau and National Police Agency's statistical department.
In terms of foreigners, between two people on this thread alone, we know of at least a dozen other foreigners who bailed on their last month's bill of cel phone use. Do you know of any similar cases?
No, I don't frequent "bad people", whatever their nationality (well as far as I know). In fact I had never heard of foreigner not paying their bills properly in Japan. But I admit knowing very few foreigners in Japan outside this forum.
They can see the same trend just as easily as anyone else. It's perfectly understandable that they would then change their behaviors accordingly.
I couldn't find any data about Belgian committing any crime or offense in Japan in the NPA's statistics. Well, there are just about 500 Belgians in Japan, most of them well-paid expats.
On the language issue, what percentage of non-asian foreigners (chosen just because they look different) in Japan do you think are competent enough in both Japanese language and the local geography to answer someone's question about directions?
As I don't know many foreigners in Japan, it's difficult to answer. But anyone who had stayed at least one year in Japan should speak japanese well enough to answer such basic things. As for knowing the local geography, I don't see why people get lost or don't know where they are in the first place. From the first day I set foot in Japan, I never got lost (in fact I had to guide my wife in the train from Narita Airport as she can't read a map properly). My sister and her boyfriend came to Japan last month and I didn't have to guide them around. How can you get lost in Tokyo ? There are (bilingual) signs everywhere ! Not like if one was in the middle of the Amazon.
The person in your example made a reasonable assessment of the situation in my opinion.
I was wearing a suit and riding a bicycle, so the guy should have guessed that :
1) I was not a tourist but somebody working there habitually (so I probably knew at least some Japanese)
2) I probably lived in the area if I was on my bicycle (so I knew the area)
From this, his judgement was forcedly mistaken, and his reaction must have been that :
1) Foreigners, even living and working in Japan, cannot possibly speak Japanese (=> racist assumption)
2) Or he just didn't want to talk to a foreigner (cowardice or xenophobia)
I am sorry, but my way of thinking based on logics and deductions, and if I am wrong I cannot see right now what element I may have missed in my reasoning.
Do I have to answer that ? This was clear discrimination as only the Jews had to register and carry this special ID card. If an ID card is imposed on the entire population (like In Belgium, France, Italy, etc.), then it is not discrimination as everyone is treated the same way. Because of this, I find the gaikokujin torokusho (which foreigners must carry at all time) to be discriminatory as the Japanese do not have ID cards at all.
Snobbery is actuallt pretending to be that kind of person, but not being it.
What is your definition of "a good citizen" then ?
I don't disagree, but just by looking at you, no one can possibly know that.
Then they should do it better, based on stricter and more accurate criteria. For example, if people from "x country" steal a lot of bicycles in Tokyo, no need to stop people from "y country" (assuming they look distinctly different). What are statistics made for ? Contemplating ?
But you're talking about average people. How many of them do you think actually know or care what the statistics like that are? Also, no one can possible know for certain what country you're from just by looking at you.
Well, I try to avoid "bad people", too, but when I did Eikawa, I knew foreigners who did the darndest things. Every last one of them was a white American, Austalian, Brit, or Canadian (No Belgians, though :)). Why does race matter? Because that's what people SEE.
As I don't know many foreigners in Japan, it's difficult to answer. But anyone who had stayed at least one year in Japan should speak japanese well enough to answer such basic things.
Maybe they should, but I don't think most of them do. And even if they do, just by looking at someone, you can't know how long s/he has been in Japan or his/her Japanese ability.
I think we probably agree on a lot more than we disagree on. It's probably just our different ways of interpreting the same thing. I think your suit and bicycle are non-issues, because there are other explanations. I would say that based on what that guy saw, he could reasonable assume that you were an honest, clean person, but little else.
I don't mean to put you on the defensive, and I'm sorry if it sounds that way. I used to feel very similar to how I think you do, so I'm just trying to help you find a less stressful approach to your situation. :beer: :singer: :gulp: :smoke: :sing: :dance:
I don't mean to put you on the defensive, and I'm sorry if it sounds that way. I used to feel very similar to how I think you do, so I'm just trying to help you find a less stressful approach to your situation.
I understand and appreciate that. I was not on the defensive, but just explaining the things that naturally flow through my mind in such situations. Sometimes I tell myself that either this or that person is racist/xenophobic or I really can't understand how they think. Either way it makes me feel somewhat nervous or insecure (or even angry).
The whole bicycle thing is interesting.
Arriving her on Saturday I was soooo worried about riding my friends bicycle because of everything I had read here about being stopped. Anyway I asked my Japanese friend about it, and she had no idea what I was talking about.
So... if I buy my own bicycle next time, is it a difficult procedure to go about getting it registered etc, even if I dont have a gaijin card?
Or would I just be better hoping that I dont get pulled over?
Either way it makes me feel somewhat nervous or insecure (or even angry).
I feel the same way. :kanashii:
I fear I'm not adding much to the debate, but what kind of world do you think we live in? Who, in whatever line of professional work they do, has the time and the resources to cross-reference every foreigner they see, with a set of 'easy to hand' statistical data to judge how to treat them. And then even if they did have this data, what possible purpose could it serve?
Even if you have some kind of information that suggests that this or that person comes from a country more likely to 'behave badly', do you really think you should judge every person from the same place in the same way; based on your general impression of their national character? Or is that not the very definition of racism?
And do you use your statistical superpowers frequently? Do you judge people from other countries that you meet, based on their statistical likelyhood of being an undesirable character? If you don't, you've undermined your entire argument. If you do, you've basically shown that rather than judge people as individuals, you'd prefer to grossly discriminate based on someone's nationality without having the slightest idea about who they are or how they will actually behave.
I'm surprised at you Maciamo. For someone who is constantly impressing on us how well travelled and culturally experienced you are about the world, a number of your comments in this debate have skirted very close to sounding like a sequel to Mein Kampf.
Minxie
Japan is a polite society regardless if they hate you or not, but I guess over-generalized stereotypes are being applied to those issues/problems that you are discussing here.
For example, one of my old professors handles the JET program which sends Americans (primarily recent grads out of college) to teach English over in Japan. However, the requirements are very strict, and it is really hard to get accepted into this program. I am sure that these people do have Japan in their best interest, and probably know and realize that some of the recent grads they sent over, may or might have caused some problems for companies (ie Dokomo). This in turn may have led these corporations to act a certain way towards "foreigners" - by asking for all sorts of IDs etc. I'm sure they aren't being totally like "dickheads" (excuse my language), but I'm sure they are taking extra precautions (well in the cases mentioned so far... extra extra precautions).
I mean I guess you can parallel that to here in the US. Look at all the "precautions" America is taking to protect our country (yeah right). One is by by stereotyping all people who look like "terrorists" or look like they came from Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan or any Middle-Eastern country. Take for example one of my friends who is from Bangladesh, is Muslim (has the traditional long beard and all), who kind of resembles Osama (it's a long standing joke amongst friends), who gets pulled over in the airport (or at other major American checkpoints for terrorists), gets arrested, treated like a criminal, when all he is doing is going to see his wife or coming back from seeing his wife. This has happened so many times, and he's the only one who gets pulled over by the cops or feds or whatever, and is searched and handcuffed. Now, you guys are going to tell me that's not racial profiling?!
Oh, and don't forget the background checks that the FBI/CIA is doing on everyone who lives in the US. Our pure, civil "right to freedom" is totally being violated... ya know what... don't let me get started on that issue... lol
I think this is a more worse-cased scenario than the cellphone story (which is outlandish also), however, at least many of us don't have to go through stuff like that. And I'm glad Madpierrot that you finally got a cellphone! sorry you had to go through all that trouble though. :-)
If i offended Mikecash (who is the republican in this forum) I'm sorry, but living in New York totally opens your eyes to everything out there. And for that matter... i guess im all out Democratic & join the many people who want to impeach Bush lol. (but this is not time for my political views of our president to be published here lol)
No, it's very easy to have a new bike registered. You just have to fill your name and address on a piece of paper at the bicycle shop, and they put a sticker on the bike, and send the registration for you.
The problem is that the police cannot see that it is your bike until they have checked the registration number on the sticker. What bothers me is the shame of being stopped by the police in front of everybody. You know if feels almost the same as if sometime suddenly shouted "stop the thief !" pointing at you in the middle of a shop, when you are completely innocent. It's utterly embarassing and you could wonder why they (the police in this case) do such things. I talked to a lawyer about it, and the Japanese police has no right to check bicycle registration if you don't want to. But go and tell them that and you will end up at the Koban for questioning. When you know that the police in Japan has the right to arrest anyone for any reason, without proof/evidence, for up to 21 days, without being allowed to contact even a relative, lawyer or your embassy, and that they might not let you sleep and question you until you confess to some crime you never committed, it is enough to be scare when you see a police car chasing you in the middle of the day for no reason. You start wondering "do I look like some murderer they are looking for ?", "Are they going to arrest me and question me for 21 days for this person's crime ?". This is something I worry about ever since I have been stopped at noon in the middle of a business district in Tokyo with hundreds of people watching. It makes me very nervous to ride a bike (but I have little choice considering where I live and work).
As Thomas said, the solution is maybe to buy an expensive mountain bike (even better, an imported one not sold in Japan :p ), so that the police will suppose only a gaijin actually buy such a bike, and leave us alone. Another solution could be to paint the bike in very original colours, so as to be sure that nobody else as a similar one (and the police will not be looking for one like that). I haven't tried because it's not my type (I already stand out enough as a foreigner). But if we still get stopped with that, then it's clear it is discrimination.
I still recommend not to ride a friend's bike, because if the police check the registration and you don't have a phone to call immediately your friend (or your mobile's battery are empty), you are in serious trouble. I never understood why the Japanese police made so much fuss about 10,000-yen bikes, but mostly let the yakuza carry out their illegal activities in front of their nose. In fact, I am more scared by the police than the yakuza, given the legal power they have to harrass honest people to amuse themselves when they are bored (and believe me they are often bored, not like the yakuza).
budd
"Anyway I asked my Japanese friend about it, and she had no idea what I was talking about."
and that is one of the main problems with living in japan but being foreign (imo). thanks for posting.
Who, in whatever line of professional work they do, has the time and the resources to cross-reference every foreigner they see, with a set of 'easy to hand' statistical data to judge how to treat them. And then even if they did have this data, what possible purpose could it serve?
You have misunderstood me here. There shouldn't necessarily be a st of statistical data for people to browse. Most people have experienced meeting foreigners, and if not, they all have some kind of opinion about them anyway. What annoys me in Japan is that all the foreigners are encompassed under the term "gaijin", as if there were no more difference between them than between the Japanese people as a whole (same culture, language, ethnicity, and if you believe the Japanese, mostly the same social class). What I meant is that the Japanese (or anyone on earth) should not have an opinion of "all foreigners" as a single, relatively uniform entity, but differentiate people according to their nationality (i.e. culture), ethnicity or language (depending on the country, but it is usually linked, except in immigrant countries like the USA), and social class.
Why ? Because people are already different enough in such a uniform society as Japan to generalise, so it misunderstanding and false stereotypes will only increase as one broadens the generalisation.
Don't misunderstand me, the best is to judge people as individuals, but many Japanese can't because they live in a deeply collectivist, conventionalist and uniformist society, and therefore like stereotypes and generalisation (e.g. they always ask what foreigner think of "Japanese people" as if all were the same).
In fact, the longer I stay in Japan and interact with Japanese people, and the more I feel inclined to generalise myself (I didn't used to do it much in my first one and half year in Japan, but found it convenient to do it about the Japanese, as they claim to be so homogenous).
So, if the Japanese want or feel the need to generalise about non-Japanese people, they should try to at least talk about "the Americans", "the French", "the Chinese", etc. everytime they normally say "foreigner". I am not sure about the USA, but I have hardly ever heard European people talk about "foreigners" to describe their behaviour or mentality. But the Japanese do. They ask me things like "Do foreigners like ramen ?", so I am forced to ask "Who are you talking about ? Me ? The Chinese ? The Zimbabweans ?"
If they were a bit more accurate that would faciliate communication, and that would decrease the incidence of racist stereotypes in Japan. You can't say "foreigners commit a lot of crime" if you are forced to replace the word "foreigner" by specific nationalities, ethnic or linguistic groups, and even less if you have to care about their social class. There is so much data that one cannot simply generalise, or the data may not be available at all (esp. for social classes, as it is mostly subjective).
It always makes me laugh when I see, for example, a NOVA ad that says that one can improve their language skill if they are taught by "gaijin" (I have seen the word used this way in an ad in the metro recently), without any specification on the nationality or mother-tongue of those "gaijin". That is why it is so easy in Japan to teach a language without qualification or without even being a native speaker. People don't really care, as long as you "look" foreign. In fact, many people truly believe that any Caucasian can speak English. :sorry:
If only the Japanese had a greater awareness that people can be very different (regardless of the personality) according to their nationality, mother-tongue and (I insist) social class (http://www.wa-pedia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15637) (as I define it, so watch out that the meaning could be quite different from how you define, especially if you are not European. For me social class is not at all defined by money, but by how one thinks and behaves !). In fact, I have realised from my international experience that people are usually more similar or compatible if they belong to a similar social class whatever the culture. It is also true for Japan.
So, in short, no need for ordinary people to study statistics (the police, though, should know about their own crime statistics as it is part of their job).
What I wanted to say is that it is more racist to put all foreigners in the same bag than to clearly differentiate between their nationality, language and social class. Once people realise that, they cannot really become racist, as they see that English Japanese-American will think and behave very differently from true Japanese, or that an Arab, a German, a Indian and a Japanese from the same social class may have more in common than a lower-class and an upper-class Japanese.
So people should judge other people based on their individual characteristics, and if need to be to generalise, be as specific as they can to avoid saying things that aren't true at all for a specific group of people. I know it is sometimes difficult. I tend to view American people as mostly Christians, although about 15% are non-religious and 5% belong to other religions. In this case, there is a clear majority that makes the stereotypes mostly true. But stereotypes are never 100% true, otherwise they would be called hard facts. Anyway we cannot talk about millions of people without generalising a bit. The important is to try being specific when one can.
Hope you understand better what I meant now. Maybe it is difficult for you to understand things exactly as I say them. If I say 3 critera, just 1 doesn't count. To make pancakes, you need eggs, milk and flour. If you only have one, well, you only have that and no pancake. So, I don't understand why your remark was almost only about nationality (e.g. when you said "do you really think you should judge every person from the same place in the same way; based on your general impression of their national character?" => No, I don't think so and that was the point of my argument !)
Well, now I hope you understand that reading properly is often more important than judging people from what you think they have said, or reading out of context. :bluush: My starting point was "The Japanese generalise so much that they do not even differentiate between nationalities". My advice was for them to try to classify people according to my 3 criteria (3 criteria for every single person they meet). If after that they see a trend, they it could be interesting to analyse that trend on a bigger scale to prove or disprove it as a stereotype (stereotypes usually need a majority of the specified group to match the descripton, so 50% or above). So, if I were to say that over 50% of the middle-class Tamil-speaking Indians I have met (I spent 5 months in India) were vegetarian, the there could be so truth is saying that most of the people in this group are probably vegetarian (if I have met enough of them to have a representative segment of course).
I did mention crime statistics, because I found it interesting that over 80% of the foreigners in Japan arrested for robberies were Vietnamese. In fact, it was an organised gang that robbed hundreds of houses. For prostitution, the Chinese and Filipinas made up most of the arrests in the statistics. There are some trends by nationality sometimes. That is why the police makes statistics. Unfortunately not precise enough to my taste.
Amazing. In his denial he manages to shove his foot even farther into his mouth.
I know... I'm speechless...
What I wanted to say is that it is more racist to put all foreigners in the same bag than to clearly differentiate between their nationality, language and social class.
?? What are you talking about ? Is that beyond you comprehesion abilities ?
Basically you are saying that to avoid being racist people should :
- "treat individual as individual" => limitations : cannot discuss cultural, national or ethnic differences between big groups of people
The other extreme (the most racist imaginable) is to have a extremely simple dual world views, in which there are people of the same race, nationality and language, and "the rest". This view is adopted by a majority of the Japanese.
Consequently, if one wants to avoid gross generalisation and racist prejudices, yet cannot differentiate everyone on an individual basis for practical reasons, the solution is to refer to people according to more specific groups.
My example of the 3 critera (nationality, language, social class) was just an example of "standard" way of categorising people. Now we could also use religion, interests, political affiliations, or whatever. to classify people, depending on what contrast we want to emphasise.
Some people are too simple-minded to realise that clear differences exist between such groups. It makes me angry to hear Japanese people assume that all Europeans are the same, or that a Asian, European, Africa or American share more in common in their "foreigness" than an East Asian shares with a Japanese. Part of the problem lies in the fact that most Japanese do not want to be associated or compare themselves to other East Asians. So they close themselves into this dual view of the world where there is only "uchi" (inside) and "soto" (outside), which is primitive and inclined to Japan-superiority-based racism.
It is usually common knowledge for Westerners that people differ according to their culture (nationality + language) or social class. But not to many Japanese.
Is there anything in my explanation on which you, Mike or Silverpoint, disagree ?
duff_o_josh
well the categorization of people by their nationality and languge is racist however social class interest and religion is predjudice.
Mike, it seems that you have deeply ingrained dislike for classifying people around the world by criteria. It looks like you assimilate 'racism' and 'classification', even when the classification has nothing to do with the race (e.g. culture, nationality, language, social class...).
Furthermore, you visibly do not understand the difference between elitism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitism) and snobbery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snobbery).
A snob, guilty of snobbery or snobbism, is a person who imitates the manners, adopts the world-view and affects the lifestyle of a social class of people to which that person does not by right belong.
Elitism is a belief or attitude that an elite — a selected group of persons whose personal abilities, specialized training or other attributes place them at the top of any field
Elitism is very close to Meritocracy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy)
Meritocracy is strictly speaking a system of government based on rule by ability (merit) rather than by wealth or social position.
As for where I stand in this regard, I dislike snobbery (as I explained in the thread Do you care about social classes ? (http://www.wa-pedia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15637) - see my discussion with Pachipro, esp. from #43), but I am not opposed to elitism or meritocracy, as I believe that capable people are more likely to rule a country well than incapable ones. The real issue is not about merit/abilities, but values and morals of those leaders. Many people confuse both issues, because powerful people all too often become corrupted or too self-conscious. So, I am in favour of people who are both capable (elite) and really care about the country and its people.
But I am not quite sure why you raised the issues of elitism and snobbery in this thread (e.g. your first reply to me). :?
This thread is about understanding that people in the world are fundamentally different based on their culture and social class (in fact, there is such a thing as "social class culture", and everyone who is not an hermit belongs to one whether they want it or not). I have never said that people should discriminate against such or such cultural or social group. I just intensely dislike people who cannot even acknowledge those fundamental socio-cultural differences and pu everyone in the same bag, for the better or for the worse.
Is it ? If I start counting the number of JREF member and categorise them according to their nationality or language, am I a racist ? If a government decides that people from country x need a visa, but those of country y don't for 90 days, is that racist ? It is categorisation by nationality at its most extreme (there is nothing an individual can do about it).
I really don't understand how you three (duff_o_josh, Mikecash, Silverpoint) think. Even thinking seem like a racist act to you. :mad: Yet, ae you defening the Japanese saying that over-categorising all foreigners under the term "gaijin" is not racist, or less racist ? Doesn't make sense ! You logic is based on the principle that "all humans are equal in every respect" and that individuality or difference should not be acknowledge as it hurts the harmony and uniformity of the "whole". Is that some kind of fundamentalist Christian belief that all humans were made to God's image, and are thus equal and perfect ? What nonsense is that ? Nobody is equal, not even true twins !
Maciamo. Putting aside the fact that you appeared to be losing your cool during that last comment, and started to turn it into some kind of mindless rant, let's look at what you've said:
1. Putting people into a large social/geographic grouping (all foreigners), and judging their behaviour based on it is wrong.
2. Putting people into a large social/geographic grouping (country, class, religion) and judging their behaviour based on it is ok.
Justify the difference between the above and explain why one is better than the other. All discrimination, whether it is on ethnicity, gender, religion, social status or any other criteria you care to choose is wrong. Period.
Having a discriminatory attitude, regardless of what it's based on, or how you came to arrive at it, is wrong. Discriminating between two social classes, two countries or any two criteria is exactly the same demonstration of prejudice as the 'us and them' or 'Japanese and foreigners' attitude which you so abhore.
Or perhaps it's ok, for me to say that all Americans are loud, fat and rude, just so long as I don't lump them in with 'other foreigners'? Because that's what your argument boils down to.
I think we have two issues here. One is that we think your argument is wrong. The other is your inability to be introspective and examine your own ideas. Everyone who disagrees with you is either simple minded, can't read, or just isn't smart enough to understand you. You have such a blinding belief in your own ability, that the comments of others don't even seem to register as plausible. I clearly remember the last time I locked horns with you. You made a statement which I fundamentally disagreed with and I said so. You then went to the reputation system and marked me down a few points because of it. For you to genuinely think that if someone has the audacity to disagree with you, then their reputation should actually suffer as a result is arrogance that beggars belief.
I think I understand the problem. For you "judging" has a negative connotation, as in "judging if someone is a criminal or not". I wished you had realised that I was talking about any kind of behaviour (or characteristics), and not just criminal ones. What is wrong with saying that a majority of the American citizens are Christian if that is true ? What is wrong with saying that a majority of the Japanese are non-confrontational and confomist if that is true ? What is wrong with saying that the Brits are in average more individualistic than the Spaniards if that is true ?
I really cannot understand why all these categorisation would be racist, and why you seem so convinced that they are "by default", just because they are based on a wide categorisation (here "nationality"). Why is that discriminatory ? Please explain !
Here is another huge difference in reasoning between you and me - maybe one that will make communication between us impossible. First of all, you do not make any difference between "a majority" and "all". How could you speak of all the Americans in that case ? It is already a factual mistake to say that "all Americans are fat. When I were to say "the Americans" without the "all", it means by default "a majority of them" (= 50% or more). Have you ever seen me write "All the Japanese" on this forum to talk about cultural or national characteristics ?
Now, there could be cases where a Japanese could say "(a majority of) foreigners" instead of using the nationality, language-group or ethnicity, but such cases are very rare, because there are hundreds of countries in the world, and I cannot think of one cultural characteritics that is shared by all and NOT by the Japanese as well. This is the point of my argument since the beginning, regardless of whether we are talking of fatness, individualism, tendency to like hamburgers, or tendency not to pay one's phone bills. It's the same.
You seem to be under the impression that I called you a racist. I did not.
It makes me angry to hear Japanese people assume that all Europeans are the same, or that a Asian, European, Africa or American share more in common in their "foreigness" than an East Asian shares with a Japanese.
This here is a good point.
Obviously this whole issue means a lot to you, Maciamo. I ask you, though, do you really think that most people should or even could think in terms of foriegners in that way? Here is one example of what I mean (perhaps not a very good one). It seems to me that if you're the average white American (USA citizen) (maybe just in the Midwest they think this?), then there's only one kind of Mexican living in the USA--the poor illegal kind. Of course that stereotype is not true, but that seems to be the stereotype. (Americans out there, do you agree? Or am I full of it?) It seems to me to be the same problem albeit on a somewhat different scale. How about your native country? How do they in the aggregate (honestly) think about different foreigners and larger ethnic groups?
It seems to me that if you're the average white American (USA citizen) (maybe just in the Midwest they think this?), then there's only one kind of Mexican living in the USA--the poor illegal kind. Of course that stereotype is not true, but that seems to be the stereotype.
You are rasing the issue of stereotypes in general. What I was discussing was not even that the Japanese had stereotypes about each major country (and they do), but that for many things they just assimilate all foreigners as one uniform entiry (and not just those living in Japan). To take your example in the US, it would be like a Midwest American thinking that all Americans are white, Christian and speak English, and that if they ever come across an Asian or a Hispanic in their area (say, Kansas or Nebraska), they would assume that they are foreigners. More than that, they would assume that there is hardly any difference between a Chinese, a Japanese, an Thai, a Mexican and a Peruvian, as they are all foreigners. They probably all think the same way and speak a similar language called the "foreignian". That is closer to how the average Japanese think.
It seems to me to be the same problem albeit on a somewhat different scale. How about your native country? How do they in the aggregate (honestly) think about different foreigners and larger ethnic groups?
Being from a small country (about the size of Maine or Shikoku), which is pretty international and has 3 official languages (thus 3 different cultures), few Belgians assume that people from 2 different countries could be alike. They understand all too well that the cultural differences between citizens of a same country can be huge just based on their mother-tongue. What's more, if you drive one hour in any direction (but the coast) from almost any point in Belgium, you are in another country (the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg or France - and Britain if you take the ferry or Eurotunnel). Consequently there are probably no Belgian (except small children) that have never been abroad (I personally don't know many people who haven't been to at least 10 countries, except among the elderly for whom it is at least 5). In these circumstances, few people would have seriously distorted views of of "foreigners" as a whole. I also don't know anybody who would assimilate Chinese and Japanese people (apparently that is common in English-speaking countries), because everyone is conscious that it would be like assimilating the French and the Germans, or the French and the Brits, and who in a sane mind would do such a thing ?
Yet, I found that there is ignorance in Belgium. For example, few Belgians know that there are over 800 languages spoken in India, or that Balinese religion is a mixture of animism and Hinduism. That's why I started a thread about improving education in Belgium or EU countries. It's not enough that people just name any country and their capital, or know the great lines of world history; they need to know more details about society in every (major) country in today's world, and learn to update their knowledge by themselves constantly. Unfortunately many Belgians seem to be self-satisfied about their knowledge of the world too easily - contrarily to me.
You are rasing the issue of stereotypes in general.
You're right. I think it's all the same.
Obviously, you have much more international experience than many. You care about other countries, and people in other countries. Am I right in this?
But not everyone is the same.
[DISCLAIMER]I do not pretend to speak for everyone.[END DISCLAIMER]
In my experience from a country with an isolationist vein living in another, most people think of foreign countries as a novelty, but not anything that really affects their lives personally, except in negative ways. (For example rising gas prices, the death toll in Iraq, terrorists.) Therefore, they really don't care about other countries and peoples, and foreigners in general, except in negative ways. One does not need to look far for discrimination against immigrants in American history. But the point is, due to lack of interest, there is a lack of knowledge. To combat the lack of knowledge, you need to combat the lack of interest. Being negative will not accomplish this goal. Debito-san may help in changing things, but if we non-native-Japanese living-on-Japanese-soil all acted in the same way, I truly think that things would get worse in this country. This would be in spite of the asthetic improvements. If you think that Japanese (and other people, of course) should know more about others, I think you put the burden to do the same first. In your case, since you do know about Japan, I think you should at least put that knowledge to use. In Japanese society among Japanese themselves, what kinds of actions tend to get good responses? So long as said actions are not immoral, these are what we should emulate if we want to live in peace here. We are not the ones with power, nor should we be. We are non-citizens. I think naturalized citizens are in a different category, as they are afforded every right and privilege afforded to every other citizen by law.
Sorry if I started to ramble!
what i meant is that to do so in a durogitive way, you dont have to give me negative rep points because i dont agree with you, you facist.
Durogitive ? Derogative ?
Quoting you "well the categorization of people by their nationality and languge is racist however social class interest and religion is predjudice."
In consideration of all my posts in this thread before, it could only mean that you saw my point of view as racist and prejudiced. This was a personal insult and deserved the negative reputation you got. It's not a matter or disagreeing, it's a matter of free provocation (and if you didn't bother to read the previous posts before writing something, don't be surprised if people react like that toward you).
Suki-Yaki
I get Japanese men asking me whether I'm from france or italy ,which I am very not. But then I get Japanese women asking my wether I am from the Argentine or places in Latin America... pretty wierd... :relief:
I must say Japanese people are very racists about nationalities. ...
And where are you from ? From what you say I suppose to your are a Latin-type Caucasian.
ofcourse your comment for giving me negative rep points was"do you really believe that?" so it appeared that you gave it to me because my opinion does not agree with your own.
Calm down, everyone! Please.
Maciamo, I think you may have overreacted a bit. I suppose that duff_o_josh may have indirectly said bad things about you personally, but he didn't actually say that you are racist or prejudiced; he just said that classifying people based on certain criteria is. I might add that you indirectly questioned duff_o_josh`s intelligence by bringing up his incorrect spelling of derogative. Do you think that you deserve negative reputation for that? I'm sure I can think of at least one person who does. Lighten up a little!
Having said that, Maciamo did have a valid point that in order to find statistical trends among populations, it is very convenient to categorize your data pool. You can categorize people according to a number of criteria, whether it be age, sex, income, nationality, religion, height, weight, political affiliation, etc. Just because you do so for statistical analysis in and of itself does not make you ageist, sexist, racist, or otherwise prejudiced. This categorization happens every time a poll is taken, for example. Think about the last time you read a newspaper article describing the latest political poll results. It WILL classify people according to certain criteria, I assure you. It's how you interpret the data that makes you racist or prejudiced.
well said, well said :bravo:
and sorry about the spelling mistake.
Just look at the whole implied premise of "Why don't the Japanese differentiate more between foreigners?" and you will see that it can be restated as "Why don't they differentiate (read: "discriminate") more between foreigners and accord me better treatment than those foreigners whom I I consider myself to be better than?"
Hmmm, I don't think that the question is saying that. :?
I can understand that anyone would be annoyed at being perceived just as "a foreigner" and maybe constantly being mistaken for another nationality/origin than their actual one. I'm not meaning racism here, I just mean the irritation. If people make a wrong assumption it's irritating even if it isn't meant as insulting. In some countries (not all), people generally (I can't really not use generalisation here :sorry: ) do differentiate between foreigners from various different countries, to more or lesser extent, and Japan it seems to be (from what I read here) to very much "lesser extent". So I think the question is simply asking "why is that?"
"Differentiate" is not the same as "discriminate". It's been said before, I'm sure - "equal" doesn't mean "the same". People are different and it's not racist or otherwise prejudiced to say so.
But if you honestly don't think that the average Japanese person makes no differentiation among foreigners whatsoever, you're kidding yourself. gaijinn is just a useful catchall phrase that can mean different things according to the situation, just as the word "foreigners" can in English.

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Phylogeny
Pleistoannelida is composed by two big clades: Errantia (eunicids, siboglinids and related polychaetes) and Sedentaria (spoon worms, tubeworms, clitellates and related polychaetes). There are also smaller groups of difficult placement, such as Myzostomida and Spintheridae, that belong to either one of them. Closely related to Pleistoannelida is a grade of basal annelids: the Amphinomida/Sipunculida/Lobatocerebrum clade, Chaetopterida and Palaeoannelida.

A possible, closer sister group to Pleistoannelida could be Dinophiliformia, a clade containing interstitial (meiofaunal) genera previously found in Orbiniida (Sedentaria).

A 2019 analysis recovered the mesozoan group Orthonectida as the sister group to Pleistoannelida. However, a more recent 2022 analysis found a monophyletic Orthonectida+Dicyemida clade localized outside of the annelids, between Gnathifera and Platyhelminthes.

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Microsoft supports four versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, so it's no surprise that the Exchange 2016 CU1, Exchange 2013 CU12 and update rollups for Exchange 2010 and 2007 made for a big release in March 2016.
Due to the coexistence scenarios that Microsoft supports for different Exchange versions, no user can run more than three of the abovementioned versions in a single organization. If you manage Exchange for multiple organizations in various versions, all four updates might affect your users. Here's what do you need to consider with so many updates released in a single quarter.
Let's start with the simplest updates, those for Exchange 2007 and 2010.
Extended support for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 means no more non-security fixes, new features or design changes will be made to those products, leading to Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 13, and Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 19.
In reality, any update carries the risk of bugs, and doesn't guarantee the newest CU will be more suitable for deployment than the last version.
Both versions received an update to the S/MIME control for Outlook Web App to make it SHA-2 compliant. Functionally, the control is still the same, but has been signed with a SHA-2-compliant certificate, due to the security algorithm SHA-1 being considered insecure compared to the cryptographic SHA-2.
If your Exchange deployment uses S/MIME, then you simply need to deal with supporting the end users to reinstall the new S/MIME control. There is nothing of concern or impact for Exchange 2007 or 2010 customers beyond that, and you can plan your server upgrades at a convenient time of low Exchange usage.
Exchange Server 2013 and 2016 are both in mainstream support, which has no limitations on the types of updates or changes you can expect to see.
Cumulative Update (CU) 12 for Exchange 2013 contains the same S/MIME update as the other March 2016 releases. More significantly, CU12 rolls back a change made in Exchange 2013 CU11 referred to as mailbox anchoring.
In Exchange 2013 CU11, Microsoft attempted to fix one of the challenges of working in multiversion Exchange organizations by anchoring PowerShell sessions to the server hosting the mailbox of the user for that PowerShell session. For users with no mailbox -- which is typical and actually a best practice for administrative users -- the anchoring feature instead selected an arbitration mailbox. While this change did resolve some issues with using PowerShell to manage multiple versions of Exchange, it caused far more problems than it solved. Administrators were forced to move their admin account's mailbox to different servers for server-specific administrative tasks, and many third-party products such as backup tools failed completely.
Exchange 2013 CU12 reverses the mailbox anchoring change, so any administrator who upgraded their Exchange 2013 servers to CU11 should look at upgrading to CU12. Furthermore, if you declined to update from CU10 due to the issues that arose with CU11, now consider upgrading to CU12 and skip the mailbox anchoring problems entirely.
Exchange 2016 CU1 is the first Cumulative Update released for the latest version of Exchange. This is a significant milestone; many administrators prefer to wait for the first major update to an Exchange version before they consider deploying it. As there are no service packs planned for Exchange 2016, only cumulative updates, CU1 fulfills that "wait for the first update" assurance those users need.
In reality, any update carries the risk of bugs, and doesn't guarantee the newest CU will be more suitable for deployment than the last version. Exchange 2016 CU1 is a mixed bag, in that respect. Exchange 2016 CU1 contains the same S/MIME update as the Exchange releases described above. And although Microsoft originally planned to include the same mailbox anchoring change as Exchange 2013 CU11, it was removed from Exchange 2016 CU1 due to the problems customers experienced with that change.
Under the hood, Exchange 2016 CU1 delivers lagged database copy enhancements that did not make it into the release to market of Exchange 2016. With CU1, lagged copy play down, which is the automatic replaying of the uncommitted transaction log files into the lagged database copy, will be deferred if the disk hosting the database copy is under heavy load at the time. This change prevents lagged copy play down from causing a performance issue that may impact active database copies hosted on the same disk. Exchange 2016 customers who operate lagged database copies should consider CU1 for deployment.
If you are running a hybrid configuration with Office 365, or using Exchange Online Archiving, the March 2016 releases for Exchange will require you to run at least Exchange 2013 CU11 or CU12, or at least Exchange 2016 RTM or CU1, to remain supported by Microsoft.
Exchange 2016 CU1 does introduce at least one new bug, with Microsoft warning that customers running Edge Transport Servers may see email messages rejected by recipient validation even when sent to valid email addresses.
Generally speaking, you should thoroughly test updates before you deploy them to your production environment. Even though Microsoft validates Exchange 2013 and 2016 code by deploying it to the cloud first, the developers can't guarantee a trouble-free deployment in on-premises Exchange environments where many other factors come into play. Testing should include validating compatibility with any third-party products that integrate with your Exchange environment, and any business-critical workflows that rely on email.
In the servicing model for Exchange 2016, both Exchange 2016 CU1 and RTM are currently supported by Microsoft, so customers are not under any pressure to upgrade immediately.
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1. Put the center stand down.
2. Stand beside your scooter. Left hand on the handle bar; compress the brake lever.
3. Now tilt the scooter toward you so that it is resting on just one foot of the center stand.(The foot nearest you.) This gives you a pivot point for the scooter to turn upon.
4. You can then just simply walk around this pivot point until the scooter is facing the direction you want it to go.
5. Then lower the scooter back onto both feet of the center stand. Voila!
This little maneuver really helps when you have ridden forward into a diagonal parking space on the street or at the mall. It saves you from backing out into traffic. Take care.


Your :wave has a variety of ports for connecting with other devices and chargers.
LEMO DATA For connecting your :wave to third-party equipment. This is a LEMO 9 socket.
Charge your :wave (via a USB 2.0 charger and cable). The micro USB port is a 5V power IN socket.
Connect your :wave to a PC or Mac for downloading firmware, FPGA updates for the on-board chip, and web page updates for the BLINK Hub app.
Please visit www.timecodesystems.com/support/firmware for instructions on how to update the firmware of your :wave.


In this post, we want to cover a couple options that will expand your SEO efforts, your on page marketing efforts and drive traffic to your website through inbound marketing strategies. There are hundreds of ways you can grow your business with Inbound Marketing and Content Marketing; however, some of the tips below are a great place to start.
Publish a guide to your industry or expertise … And then give it away for free.
This one is counter-intuitive. Shouldn't you be charging for your knowledge? Don't you deserve to be paid for your work? Of course you do! So why should you publish an ebook that is thousands and thousands of words long, and then give it away for free?
The answer is that when you give your customers something of value for free, they will come back for more. This is the entire concept of inbound marketing and content marketing. Whether you are creating landing pages, resource pages, blog posts or all of the above, inbound marketing is crucial for your online success. You are getting them in the door, and you are proving your worth. We're not saying you should give away all your knowledge for free, but that you should give your customers something that will change their lives or their businesses enough that when they are done with it, they will be excited to pay for your full product.
Do make sure that your free guide is directly related to what you are selling. Don't publish a free guide to grooming cats if your business is photography. Instead, think about publishing an abridged or surface-level explanation of your secret strategy, or an introduction to your area of expertise or a list of resources.
You may also want to check out this list of 50 great inbound marketing ideas. This should help you to get the juices flowing.
When it comes to keywords in content, there are a few commonly-accepted ways of incorporating them. You can go after the biggest, most searched keywords. You can go after the most keywords. You can try to increase your keyword rank on your site regardless of what keyword it's for. None of these strategies are actually particularly effective.
The most effective way to get great results for your keywords isn't to target the most popular keywords or to cram your pages with tons of different keywords. After all, you are never going to get on the front page of Bing or Google for a major keyword like "technology," no matter how great your tech business is. And cramming your content with tons of different key words will just get you somewhere in the middle of search results for all those keywords.
The key here is to do the counter-intuitive thing: find one or two super-targeted, niche key words that get right to the heart of your business, and optimize the heck out of them.
Use your location. When people search for your business, that's what they're going to be typing in anyway.
Use a specialty that stands out from the crowd.
Think about what you have to offer that your competition doesn't – this is something you can really push in keywords.
When you optimize niche key words, you are taking advantage of the long tail. You're not trying to compete with Walmart, because you are targeting customers who don't want to go to Walmart to find what they want. They want what you have to offer, so focus on telling them that you're in business!
Build up your personal brand identity.
Your brand identity is important. But if you can make your customers feel like they know you personally, they are going to be a lot more engaged and loyal. After all, we are all craving personal connection. So don't be afraid to put yourself in your brand. Let your customers see you as a person – share what you are passionate about, tell a bit of your life story, and let your customers know what is going on in your life. Your reward will be customers who buy from you not just because they like your product, but also because they genuinely like you.
Social media is where your customers hang out. You shouldn't expect to drive most of your conversions via Facebook or Twitter – your website is still the best for that. But your customers want to be able to talk to you, and social media is the place for that. Have a Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ presence, and when people mention you or talk to you, make sure to respond! This shows that you have good customer service, it increases your reach, and it impresses your potential customers. Social Media Marketing doesn't take much. 1 simple post per day can increase your social media engagement by a huge percentage.
This is a point that is going to be controversial, but we stick by it anyway. Pop-ups are obnoxious and annoying, but they really work. Offer some free information, a free guide, or a free ebook on your pop up, which customers just have to enter their email address to be able to get. You'll be amazed at how your email list grows just by this one trick! There are hundreds of popup plugins to choose from but this list will give you a good idea of where to start.
Guest blogging is an incredibly effective way to increase your inbound traffic and to give yourself credibility. The concept is pretty simple – you write a great piece and give it to another site (preferably one whose audience you want for yourself), with the agreement that it will be attributed to you and include a link to your site. Regular readers of that site will be impressed by your post and head over to your site to find out more about you. You also get credibility, because your work has been featured on another highly respected and prestigious site, which means you obviously have something good to say.
This can work the other way too – you can host another writer, so they will write something that you will publish on your site, with the same attribution and link back to them. This will send their readers to you too (as they will probably post on their site that they have a piece up at your site). It will also build up your credibility, because if an impressive writer hangs out on your site then you must be in the cool kids' club.


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Exeed LX — выпускающийся с 2019 года компактный кроссовер суббренда Exeed китайского автопроизводителя Chery.

История
В Китае модель была представлена летом 2019 года, продажи начаты в четвертом квартале 2019 года по цене от 130 000 юаней (18 950 долларов).

На внешних рынках: с первого квартала 2021 года в Бразилии и с марта 2022 года в России.

ТТХ
Создан на базе модели Chery Tiggo 7 первого поколения (выпуск которого прекращён в 2020 году), на модульной архитектуре T1X: одинаковые шасси и кузов, широкая унификация и по кузовным элементам, однако, дизайн у модели Exeed оригинальный, а интерьер отличается полностью.

Передняя подвеска независимая типа МакФерсон, задняя — независимая многорычажная. Подвеска настроена австрийской фирмой Benteler.

Габариты: длина — 4533 мм, ширина — 1848 мм, высота — 1690 мм. Колёсная база — 2650 мм, дорожный просвет — 185 мм.

Привод — только передний.

Двигатель и коробка передач:
 бензиновый 4-цилиндровый турбомотор объёмом 1.5 литра (156 л. с.), с 9-ступенчатцым «вариатором» CVT25.
 бензиновый 4-цилиндровый турбомотор объёмом 1.6 литра (197 л. с.), с 7-ступенчатым «роботом» 7DCT.
 заявленная гибридная версия ET-i на 2022 год ещё не вышла даже на местный рынок.

Комплектации: базовая Luxury и Prestige. Внешне Prestige отличается размерами колёсных дисками в 19, а не 18 дюймов и панорамной крышей. Уже в «базе» включает «кожаный» салон, электропривод передних сидений, двухзонный климат-контроль, подогрев всех сидений и руля, аудиосистему Arkamys, навигатор, круиз-контроль, задний парктроник, камеру заднего вида, светодиодные фары, датчики света и дождя. Комплектация Prestige дополнительно включает камеры кругового обзора, передний парктроник, панорамную крышу, встроенный видеорегистратор и набор электронных ассистентов.

На рынке России
В России доступен с марта 2022 года, импортируется в готовом виде из Китая. Предложен только в версии с двигателем 1.5 литра, дефорсированном до 147 л. с.; в двух комплектациях Luxury и Prestige — соответственно по цене 3,060 млн или 3,360 млн рублей.

Ссылки
 На российский рынок выходит кроссовер Exeed LX // Авторевю, 17 марта 2022
 Китай или Япония: Exeed LX и Geely Atlas Pro против Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross // Авторевю, № 10, 2022
 Урок китайского: первый обзор нового кроссовера Exeed LX для России // Автовзгляд, 17 марта 2022
 EXEED LX — китайская альтернатива «Тигуану» за 3 млн рублей // Автостат, 29 апреля 2022

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SLM works closely with the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) to ensure all of our music meets the Bishop's requirements for theologically sound music. We pride ourselves on educating our composers on how to make their music acceptable for use in the Catholic Church. SLM also works with ICEL (International Commission on English in the Liturgy), the CCD (Confraternity of Christian Doctrine), and GIA (copyright holders of the Revised Grail Psalms) to make sure all our psalm texts are accurate and approved for use in Catholic worship.
SLM has been a business partner of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM) since the Spring of 2017 and has contributed to the last two NPM national conferences in Cincinnati and Baltimore. If you attend NPM 2019 in Raleigh, NC, be sure to stop by our booth!
SLM enjoys a great partnership with OneLicense giving our composers another outlet to receive well-earned compensation for their music. OneLicense makes it easy for worshiping communities to obtain reprint permissions of copyrighted music for congregational use. As a Member-Publisher, SLM receives bi-annual distributions that we pass along to our growing list of composers. Yes, those hours you spend reporting the music your congregation uses does make it into the hands of composers!
FontSound and SLM began their partnership in 2018 and have enjoyed collaborating on projects through our mission to "empowering missionary disciples" and "Glorifying the Lord by our lives". The team at FontSound produce weekly Facebook Live events and webinars to provide professional, affordable, and sustainable pastoral solutions.
Open Your Hymnal is a liturgical music podcast project by Zack Stachowski and Matt Reichert. SLM has been a proud sponsor of their podcast programming since early 2019. Podcasts produced by Open Your Hymnal have centered around many of the Catholicism's greatest modern composers and the music they have given to the Church.


Nationwide's evolution over the last 90 years has provided a strong foundation for success. Yet, the pace of change in the insurance and financial services industries has accelerated. As Nationwide looks to its centennial in 2026, it is laser-focused on how best to meet the rapidly evolving needs of customers. This means transforming customer solutions and experiences while also driving more efficient operations requiring new workforce capabilities.
Nationwide Learning teams all focus on aligning talent development initiatives to the business strategy. Nationwide has set its sights on selecting and preparing associates and leaders who will be a strong Workforce of the Future, driving success on key strategic imperatives.
Talent recruitment, management, and development practices all are aligned to accelerate these Future Capabilities.
In 2017, Nationwide Enterprise Learning launched the NSuite (N for Nationwide) learning program aimed at strengthening the company's "One Nationwide" culture and helping associates personalize the company's core values and behaviors, while leaning into new opportunities and overcoming unconscious bias. In addition to face-to-face class/ workshop options, NSuite modules incorporate modern learning techniques such as self-assessment, experiential exercises to create insights tied to key course concepts, self-reflection and action planning, microlearning, curation, and social communities. Each module comes with reinforcement resources/post-session leader discussion guides for embedding NSuite behaviors into the team.
NSuite laid the foundation for the Workforce of the Future—Future Capability learning in 2018 by ensuring a clear understanding of what "Live Our Values" means and providing insight into key behaviors related to Nationwide's culture and values. "We are now ready to extend our caring culture into the future for our customers with shared behaviors that set a positive context for every associate to grow in his or her ability to Lead, Innovate, and Adapt," Smith says.
The pace of change in the insurance and financial services industry dictates that leaders and associates must be agile learners, always striving to keep their expertise up to date and able to gain new skill sets quickly. It is essential that this type of learning agility is foundational to acquiring specific future capabilities for Nationwide's Workforce of the Future, Smith notes.
A good example of this agile learning was designed, developed, and delivered by Nationwide's Property/Casualty Learning team in response to expertise gaps identified in annual Audit reports. The Property/Casualty Learning team partnered with Compliance and Quality Assurance teams to more effectively address front-line quality and audit feedback. A digital training reinforcement plan that included targeted microlearning topics was developed.
This project has pioneered microlearning as an effective tool for Learning Loops at Nationwide, particularly double loops. Double-loop learning is used when an organization wants to ensure performers use the best mental model when performing their jobs. In double-loop learning, the feedback is not only used to directly influence performance, but also to form a second loop where the mental models/rules are improved, thus improving the feedback. Microlearning, with its short, specific bursts, as well as on-demand nature, seems to be valuable to the double-loop approach because of its flexibility and easy, responsive updates.
Nationwide also tried learning loops for the first time in 2018 for technical onboarding, incorporating them into the Predictable Journey for Member Solutions/Services new associates. Predictable Journey is designed to build the skills and confidence necessary to deliver a quality member experience.
Predictable Journey accomplishes that through a cadence of training and evaluation (assessments help associates track their progress) and support and feedback (associates and leaders receive performance feedback through formal learning loops and microlearnings). Quality results are tracked monthly and shared with the Learning team so new microlearnings can be continuously assigned and developed to target specific quality issues.
As a result of this learning approach aimed at helping associates better leverage their expertise, in Direct Sales, measurable improvements occurred in key audit categories following the use of microlearning. For example, after releasing the Wildfire Risk microlearning video, the Sales organization improved by 4.89 points compared to January 2017.
In 2017, the Predictable Journey microlearnings were piloted across Nationwide's call center locations and were compared to a control group of training classes during the same timeframe the prior year. The results showed the pilot associates demonstrated a faster speed to proficiency and ability to resolve caller needs in the first call.
Following ongoing foundational learning through NSuite aimed at living the values and foundational learning aimed at leveraging expertise, in late 2018, Nationwide launched My Future, Our Success, a digital learning experience for all associates and leaders to self-assess against Nationwide's Future Capabilities. "They then target their personal results with appropriate learning and playlists launched through our learning management system," says Nationwide Chief Learning Architect Diane August.
In 2019, Nationwide Enterprise Learning primarily will focus on helping associates and leaders develop two capabilities from the Future Capability Model: Innovation and Customer Engagement.
The impact of the NVision module already can be seen. For instance, the company's Information Technology function has heavily embraced NSuite learning, and tracked results of projects that were influenced by learnings from NSuite participation. An IT Operation team participated in NChange, an NSuite module focused on managing change. Successful collaboration across key IT areas enabled automated infrastructure self-provisioning for a development line. Before automation, it took roughly 150 days to provision servers. After automation, it took just hours to provision servers. Before automation, testing time was eight hours; after automation, it was 53 minutes.
The company also is boosting its already strong leadership development approach. Leadership development at Nationwide takes place at four levels of learning: Executive, People Leader, Associate, and Emerging Leaders. "We have learning initiatives to address each audience's needs," says August. "Lead" recently was identified as one of the company's Future Capabilities. "What is new and somewhat unique about this capability and the related learning is that the underlying philosophy is that all associates need to lead from their position. We all need to demonstrate this capability through our work, not just designated leaders," August points out.
Leadership development and succession planning have proven effective. "Our high-potential pipeline is deep and diverse as a result of strong sponsorship and targeted learning initiatives at every career level," Smith says.
Nationwide has had a strong focus on "Adapt" through its Team Effectiveness learning programs and resources and now is putting a Workforce of the Future focus on this capability by preparing leaders and associates to use new key actions. These key actions emphasize guiding through disruption, continually learning, resilience, and agility.
Nationwide has a strong associate value proposition. "We long have recognized that associate engagement is key to performance and have invested in engagement-related action planning and learning," Smith notes.
A key part of having engaged associates who will embrace future capabilities is having a Human Resources (HR) technology system that supports their needs. Nationwide's state-of-the-art, next-generation, cloud-based Human Resources (HR) system integrates HR functional tasks, Career Management, and Talent Management into one associate and leader experience.
August says this approach made the most sense because users may only need a process once or twice a year and can't be expected to remember how to do it.
"Our approach saved thousands of hours of productivity, furthering our mission to deliver member value," adds Smith.
Nine months before deployment, the Learning and Development team designed, developed, and implemented embedded learning/performance support that included onscreen learning/demos at the moment of need; messages that encourage interaction at key points; smart tips at points where users often make mistakes; and resources, videos, and performance support tools accessible at the point of need.
Completing four cycles of stakeholder rehearsal: Users tested the system and provided feedback used to improve embedded learning and enhance the user experience.
The attention to detail and the involvement of such a wide team of people paid off in high use of the training, August says. Nearly 100 percent of 31,000 employees used the embedded learning; 97 percent of users utilized learning more than once; and walk-throughs were viewed more than 238,000 times.
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