Interpersonal Style and Japanese American Organizational Involvement

Fugita, Stephen S.; Miyamoto, S. Frank; Kashima, Tetsuden

doi:10.2333/bhmk.29.185

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“…The implicit for life design plays a significant part in human relations to borrow Kluckhohn and Kelly's term (1945) of culture. It is also a part of George Herbert Mead's (1967) "taking of the role of the other" into consideration before responding to social situations that constitutes the interaction level of interpersonal theory proposed by Fugita, Miyamoto and Kashima (2002). Hayashi and I proposed to characterize the primary unit of American culture vis-à-vis Japanese culture as being "individual" vis-à-vis "diffuse self" or "interpersonal relations" of Japanese culture (Hayashi & Kuroda 1998).…”

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Ha Model of Multi-Ethnic-Culture in a City without Majority

Kuroda

2009

Behaviormetrika

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The study represents an effort to develop a model of multi-ethnic-culture in Honolulu, a city without an ethnic majority based upon sample surveys of voters in urban sectors of the Island of Oahu in 1988 and 2000. I propose this Ha model of a city where the first African American US President was born and reared. After reporting on a comparative analysis based on Quantification III of Honolulu residents with that of Americans at large, I conclude that the model calls for people to be modest in insisting on their own points of view, taking other ethnic cultures and environment including religious beliefs into consideration in any social interaction and in being relativistic rather than absolutist. That in return may require one to be in harmony or lōkahi and being inclusive or ho'opili pū, as indigenous Kanaka Maoli would put it. It is a viable model for the community of Honolulu's multi-ethnic composition and dynamics if it is to exist peacefully. It is interesting to note that the perceptive Mark Twain felt the spirit of tropical forests and probably the scent of plumeria that still lived in his memories twenty years after he left the island. Similar probably was the sense of breath Kanaka Maoli must have felt as they landed on the islands centuries ago, when they named the archipelago of Hawai'i as the place "to breathe clear water." They must have found an island where there was clean air and fresh water needed to make life possible. No alien land in all the

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Section: Discussion: Significance and Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%