Message from iverdin

[Anonymous]

I remember learning about Buddhism in College, however, we never went in depth about its dogma. Dr. Lori Meek’s presentation is fascinating, she possesses great knowledge about the subject and it’s very pleasant listening to her. I’m thinking how I’ll incorporate some of this information into my class, the fact that I work at a Catholic school might complicate things a bit. One thing I can do is have my students interview their international peers coming from China, Korea and Japan and ask them about their religious life, they can come to class and report on the information they obtained using the target language. Another assignment could be having them investigate about religion in specific communities in South America where we can mostly find East Asian communities, for example, Brazilian-Japanese community in Sao Pablo or Japanese-Peruvian communities in Lima.

Questions for students projects:
What type of religious practices are found in Japanese-Peruvian (Brazilian, Argentinian, Ecuadorian…) communities? How are these multi-ethnic communities?
How do people identify themselves? Is there acceptance/rejection from the non-asian population?