As Terri's father said years ago: "Everybody is the sum total of all own experience up to date." That eventually led to my sample statement, that "I am I. We all think and feel with just our own mind and soul." Over the years I have come to adopt and adapt to various elements of japanese ways of living, ways of dealing with each other, and some of it has replaced its german counterpart in me. Saying this, there are habits and ways of live and in both worlds, which do not appeal to me. I guess my japanese friends understand and have learned to cope with the fact of my modified personality, which I have come to be. Or as 耕治さん puts it: "へんながいじんです。" 😀 Thank you for your thoughts.
Yes, your issue of "how much of Japanese or German am I?" is complex when you look at and analyze details; yet you have come to realize, that you are you, and it is easier to be genuinly you instead of wanting to meet a particular stereotype. Each individual has her / his own personal history where switches to individual tracks are being set even by small things happening in a moment. Once that moment has passed, it determines your future peronality from there on. You cannot go back to go the other way. What you can do - as you have realized - is to accept your unique history and be you just as much as you grant others to be the product of THEIR unique history. We all can only feel and think with our very own genuity.
As Terri's father said years ago: "Everybody is the sum total of all own experience up to date."
That eventually led to my sample statement, that "I am I. We all think and feel with just our own mind and soul."
Over the years I have come to adopt and adapt to various elements of japanese ways of living, ways of dealing with each other, and some of it has replaced its german counterpart in me. Saying this, there are habits and ways of live and in both worlds, which do not appeal to me.
I guess my japanese friends understand and have learned to cope with the fact of my modified personality, which I have come to be.
Or as 耕治さん puts it: "へんながいじんです。" 😀
Thank you for your thoughts.
Yes, your issue of "how much of Japanese or German am I?" is complex when you look at and analyze details; yet you have come to realize, that you are you, and it is easier to be genuinly you instead of wanting to meet a particular stereotype.
Each individual has her / his own personal history where switches to individual tracks are being set even by small things happening in a moment. Once that moment has passed, it determines your future peronality from there on. You cannot go back to go the other way. What you can do - as you have realized - is to accept your unique history and be you just as much as you grant others to be the product of THEIR unique history.
We all can only feel and think with our very own genuity.