9 Jul, 2006 in
Asia-Israel connections by Fili An
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What’s Different About Cross Cultural Relationships? #11 Opportunities – Cross Cultural Relationships #10 Discrimination Against Cross Cultural Relationships #9 Challenges in Cross Cultural Relationships #8 Positive Aspects of Cross Cultural Relationships #7 Success factors – Cross Cultural Relationships #6Somebody's knocking on my door, and my dog – who rose back from the dead – was going mad. I got up, opened the door, and saw an Asian girl standing there. You might say, that of all things I expected to see when I opened the door – this was certainly not one of them. Neat, I thought to my self, I don't have to come up to them anymore – they just come up to my house now.
She looked a bit confused, so I started with my usual Asian greeting of "hey! I'm fiLi, where are you from?". Her English seemed to be a bit off, not to mention her Hebrew, but then she reached for her bag and got an official letter out by the "Women's Federation for World Peace". Every year a group of Japanese women come here to Israel to promote the organization's goals and go door-to-door to raise funds. The letter was asking for 20-100 shekels donation (~4 to 20 US$).
It was quite funny, actually. She pointed her finger at a sign I posted up next to the door in both Hebrew, English and Chinese saying "Beware, there's a dog in the house", and was giving facial expressions of being impressed by finding Asian characters next to the door. We tried to chitchat for about 10 minutes, so I was able to gather that there's a group of them here, staying in friends' houses, liking Israel and especially Jerusalem, but that it all seems very strange to them. She asked for my phone and email so that the organization could contact me to invite me to their conference. Sure, World Peace in mind ofcourse, I'd absolutely love to go 
She was looking very shy and somewhat scared, which I could understand from the situation she was in. I couldn't imagine going door to door in Japan, not knowing Japanese or English, and asking for donations. Dear lord, the people she must have met! the responses she must have got! Yet, come to think of it, I do have friends that as part of a after-the-army phase in life went to sell jewelery in Japan for 3 months (illegally, I think, like some English teachers in Asia), god knows why, and they told me some really bizarre stories. She's a brave gal.
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