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This 3 page paper examines the book “Life in Riverfront,” about two Japanese students who observe life in a small American town.
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the differences between the Japanese and Riverfront cultures that this young couple found when they first came to the Midwest. Discussion The book is entitled Life in Riverfront: A Middle-Western
Town Seen through Japanese Eyes; it is set in the fictional Wisconsin town of Riverfront. The two young ethnographers knew they would be curiosities because of their ethnicity, and they
wanted to record the differences between themselves and members of the strange "nacirema" culture they visited (the word is American spelled backwards). They expected to find significant differences in regard
to language, religion, ethnic background and citizenship, but soon found that the greatest difference, the thing that seemed to be very important to the naciremans, was religion. Most of the
residents of the town are Christian but the researchers are not, and they found that many residents asked them about it and at the same time, supplied information as to
their religious preference: "I am a Catholic" (Fujita, xvi). The authors may have thought it odd that so many people asked them about their religion, but often in small towns,
it is customary. But it wasnt only religion that concerned the residents; the two young people often found that residents of Riverfront were very aware of, and proud of,
their ethnic heritage. In addition to saying "Im Catholic," a person might also identify their ethnic background: "Im a Norwegian" or "Im Polish," for instance. (Fujita and Sano, 2001). The
town had a substantial number of Polish residents and thus was heavily Roman Catholic, so the question is not as trivial as it seems. Many people seemed to take their
identify from their religious affiliation, as in the prospective landlady who asked bluntly "What church do you go to?" (Fujita and Sano, xxx p. 20). They noticed that
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