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A Multicultural Discussion About Personality Development

Jon Carlson

Governors State University

Yoshiya Kurato

Kansai University

Elizabeth Ruiz

Governors State University

Kok-Mun Ng

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Julia Yang

Governors State University

The use of knife and fork common inWestern cultures has influenced Japanese people not only in terms of eating habits but also Japanese personality characteristics. This influence fosters the notion of segmentation—that all areas of life, including people, can be sectioned into parts and so analyzed. Mind and body are considered two discrete elements. Likewise, Western influence in clothes, housing, and language has also brought the Japanese a great deal of change in their value system. The change has affected family structure; thus there is confusion to the extent the Japanese seem to be at loss as to what to do and how to deal with daily life. The authors also discuss how strongly personality theories mainly developed in Western cultures have influenced personality development and child rearing in Japan (Kurato).

Key Words: knife and fork • segementation • value system • confusion (Kurato)

The Family Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, 111-121 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1066480703261932
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