What do you think Ms. Ariana Miyamoto as Japan's representative?

  To be honest, the last class was the first time to see Arianea Miyamoto. So, I didn't think something especially when the teacher said that she is a representative of  Japanese ladys. My first impression for her were that she is actually beautiful but isn't enough to be a represantative and that she doesn't look like a Japanese. Without any knowledge about her, I should not write about her, so I researched about her a little.

  Before I know her, I didn't totally agree with that she is a representative of miss universe because of her appearance. However, I changed the thought. she was born in Nagasaki and lived in there until she went to study abroad when she was 15 years old. She spent almost all part of her life in Japan and it can be said that a lady who had been brought up in Japan with Japanese since she was born have the same thought way with any other Japanese.

  But this is also a fact that Ms. Ariana can not be seen exactly like a Japanese for us. This topic is so controversial tha t there are a lot of articles and video debating about her on the Internet. On youtube there are also many video and comment. In one of those, a interviewer asked "Do you want to support ArianaMiyamoto (Miss Universe Japan 2015) as Japan's representative?" to people in Japan. Most Japanese answered yes, and a lady said "Well, with regard to Japanese-ness, I felt she was quite Japanese when I saw her on TV. Likewise, if she wants to support Japan, and if she wants to make it in Japan, I would like to support her."

 In the interview, about her mixed background is also asked. Many people said nealry the same with my opinion that her background is the reason she is Japanese rather than is problem. For example, a man said "I don't think the contest is just about the appearance. It's also about the kind of stuff you won't learn unless you grow up in Japan. So people shouldn't judge her solely by her appererance."

  This topic may become a good oppotunity to think about some discrimination to foreigners and mixed people. I have many friends like these, and I've never looked down on or hate such people. However, I might have a little minds to see mixed people special. Because, in the video, every Japanese accept mixed people but they also recognize that there is a discrimination to some extent. through this homework, I strongly thought it is important that everyone should feel usual to be mixed people or foreigners next to us in a class. This may be the first step to make a true grobal society.

Patricia landfalled on Mexico

  Scott Kelly, a NASA astronaut of the International Space Station tweeted several phones of Hurricane Patricia on Friday. It is certain that the scale of it is more catastrophic than any other ones which we experienced. I have known about the news but I didn't mentioned specially because this is that happened in the other side in the world.

These pictures made me so scared and its scale was much beyond my expectation. I also felt Patricia is beautiful weather phenomena because of her scale. However, it was not beautiful one but a terrible weather disaster on the ground.

 The storm made landfall in Mexico on Friday, with winds reaching speeds of 165 mph. Hours after making landfall, the storm weakened but still packed winds of 130 miles per hour (210 km per hour). There was flooding in parts of the city, though it escaped the worst of the immensely powerful storm. Visitors and residents weathered the hurricane's onslaught in emergency shalters hoping it would not do as much damage as the last storm of this magnitude, Typhoon Haiyan , which killed thousands of people in the Phillippines in 2013. THe storm killed over 6,300people and wiped out or damaged nearly everything in its path on November. 8, 2013, destroying around 90 percent of the city of Tacloban.

 About 400,000 individuals live in the areas expected to be affected. It slammed into a stretch of sparsely populated coastline near the popular beach gateway of Puerto Vallarta, where 15,000 tourists were evaluated to avoid torrential rain and potentially lether winds. In Puerto Vallarta, the heart of a string  of resorts that range from low-end mega hotels to exclusive villas attracting tech billionaires and pop stars, loudspeakers had blared orderds to evacuate hotels ahead of Patricia's arrival. The streets emptied as police wailed in anticipation of Patricia, which gathered strength suddenly on Thursday night. "Whichever way you turn, there's debris," said Juan Michel, 36, a hotel manager in the resort of  Barra de Navidad to the northwest of Manzanillo, who was taking cover from Patricia with 13 others. "We've never seen anything like this.

 In such situation, Scott Kelly had just tweeted an imposed image of the giant storm from 249 miles (401 km) above Earth on the International Space Station along with the massage:"Stay safe below, Mexico."  I've never tweeted but recognized a strong impact of it, which enable to show what's happening at somewhere in the world. I was afraid of dangerous of SNS but such a speedy communication tools can be said difinitly useful for us.


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