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Family Style: Yoko Yamasaki Hi Bernie, and American penpals. This is Yoko. Bernie, thank you for your response to my message on American gentlemen. I was surprised to know that young married family men in the U.S. are kind and considerate as well as ones in Japan. In comparison with 40 years ago, the nowaday home electrical appliances get easier to use, and the workload for housekeeping chores get reduced to a certain extent. As we observe, the time has changed the family style from the traditional one (a husband works outside, a wife stays at home) to the dual income one, and the number of cooperative husbands to their wives increases accordingly. But in Japan, many girl students say to prefer to stay at home without jobs when they would become mothers in stead of developing their lifelong jobs. That is because, I believe, the berden of women's is still too heavy even though it is said the social system supporting for "dual income with kids" has been established. On the other hand, I have a concern that the number of people (both men and women) who choose to be single (not married) increase gradually in Japan. By the way, muggy July and August in Japan are particularly tough for me. Bernie, I suppose the climate of Minnesota, where you live, is not so humid, but for the change of temperature long sleeves may be needed even in summer. Looking at a world map, I recognize the land of the U.S. is about 25 times bigger than that of Japan, and I guess this bigness is one of the reason why computers are used so widely in the U.S. Do all U.S. penpals think my guess above is funny ? Take care not to have a summer cold !!! Yoko Yamasaki. | |
