I’m not special ,but I was invited and dancing.
Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.
8 March, noon.
Varanasi, India.
I came to India at this time of the year for no other reason,
To participate in the Holi festival.
Once a year, in India, where caste system is still practised, people are allowed to loosen up and the whole country becomes colourful. It is a national event.
Famous as the world's most dangerous festival, the unprecedented festival attracts people from all over the world.
It's a national and traditional festival in India,
I'm just here to have fun.
Even if you are "not a specialJapanese" like me, you are welcome to participate.
In fact, I was very welcome.
Whether you are happy or not is up to you, but the moment you set foot on Indian , no matter whether you are Japanese or not,
Holi compulsory participation.
Even clothes you didn't want to get dirty become more colourful with a single word of "Happy Holi!"
'Noooooooooooooooooo! You've got to be kidding me.!! NOooooooo! Go awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
I think it was hilarious for you to see the Japanese running away from the little Indian guy while saying like this.
Happy Holly
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When I returned to the hostel, there were people dancing with orange on their faces.
Apparently there was only red and yellow powder in the hostel, and the whole hostel was full-body orange lol
Happy Holly
Walking around Varanasi during Holi was tremendous and the festivities were in overdrive, and to be honest, we were too tired to follow the groove of the Indian, so we stood on the sidelines at the edge.
I'm tired, I've washed my face once,
I'm not going in there anymore!
I thought.
Me orange. I was dancing.
Everyone danced so well, I didn't know what was going on, but I tried to imitate them and danced. It was soooo fun.
Happy Holly
Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.
In February, I spent most of the month participating in the Ship for world youth (SWY), an international exchange program sponsored by the Cabinet Office.
Selected youth from 11 countries around the world, including Japan, gathered together for a program to learn from each other's ideas and the state of their countries, exchange views on the SDGs, and make courtesy calls to various places.
If you say "Cabinet Office," "SDGs," and "courtesy call" it sounds very serious,
You might think,
"Hey, what kind of an amazing guy you are to participate in this program,"
but, to be honest,
many of the participants are not special like me.
Even during the program, we do not talk seriously all the time, but most of the time we have parties secretly at night or gossip and make pleasant conversation.
I was in high spirits, drinking, drinking coffee, dancing, laughing, dancing, and sometimes talking seriously and dancing with all kinds of people.
I was invited to any event, and enjoyed any place.
Even after SWY was over, I was able to visit my friends around the world, and even there I was made very welcome and enjoyed the reunion.
It was special hospitality. love Omani !
In these two months of talking to the world, walking the world, touching the world, I was accepted everywhere I went.
Wherever I went,
people talked to me.
Wherever I went,
I was WELCOME.
Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.
These are the words of Vernā Myers, an American diversity consultant.
Diversity = to be invited to a party and to be there.
= the "state" or "fact" of having a diverse group of people.
Inclusion = To be invited to dance
= To be recognized and to "act" or "participate" in the dance.
She definitions of each word are expressed in easy-to-understand terms.
I am,
invited to every party and
invited to dance at every party.
In the world I know from the news,
it is the daily attacks that make me wonder what human rights are,
We are thereten by atomic bomb
and military buildup is incresing in many countries,
BUT
I am not a special Japanese.
"I" am invited to every party, and
“I” am invited to dance at every party.
I travel the world, made friends all over the world.
I could never imagine these people fighting with the countries they live in.
In a world I don't know, a world I know from the news,
Even if I have to admit that it is happening.
At least in the "world" I know,
I belive it would never happen.
They are calling for the Russian SWYers not to be invited to the global assembly in Oman.
The "world" that I know is "a world where everyone is invited and invited to dance".
Not so.
I was invited because I am "me" and because I am "Japanese".
I was invited because I am not special.
I was able to smile and communicate a little in English,
I am somewhat wealthy and educated,
I was invited because I grew up in a country that didn't have nuclear weapons and wasn't at war.
I was invited.
Wherever I went.
I get invited to parties, to dances.
It's not normal.
It's special.
What can I do for peace?
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