1. Images must have captions that clearly explain what the image is trying to
communicate to the reader.
Writing/Visual Expectations:
Part 1 - Approximately 2 paragraphs.
Use two unique examples to illustrate the importance of cultural (or other human-kind)
group membership to one's identity - i.e. "Who we are". Note: One example must be
from research and one example must be about you.
Cultural groups are important because it can make people to have their values. For
example, Japanese people’s personalities are educated as “the stake that sticks out will get
hammered down” Therefore, although I am in the international school, I still value in humble
when I meet with Japanese people or teachers.

2. This is the picture of silhouette of Japanese people. As this picture depicts, Japanese people
try not to make one’s existence known, when they are facing with other person and try to
be uniformed with others because they value in humbleness.
Also, human kind groups are important because it can remind one’s duties. Navy defends
nations, doctors heal the sick, and Christians acts as Christ because they know how they know
which groups they belong to and how they should act (“US and Them”).
Human kind group of “doctor” reminds
their actions; provide mental care to patients
Part 2 - Approximately 2 to 4 paragraphs.

3. Use unique examples to illustrate at least one important positive and one important
negative aspect of our attachment to cultural / H-K groups. The aspects you choose
should reflect what you believe to be the most important/significant ones.
A positive aspect about human kind groups is that people can predict other’s actions and
make cautions to oneself. For example, in Japan I saw many teenage people, who were
smoking, with a bike sitting in front of a station at night. Therefore, I stayed away from them
and chose different ways to enter the station.
This movie resituates what I did in Japan. (Saw those teenagers and went the other way)

4. Also, human kind group can make people feel comfortable and feel like that they have
supportive power. It is evident by an experiment of obedience; the examiner keeps order
learner to give (fake) electronic shocks to a person who is in other group and see if learners
obey or not. However, the learner obeyed to experimenter when he/she was alone with the
experimenter. On the other hand, when there were two or more experimenters, they disobeyed
(“The Perils of Obedience’s”). Therefore, human kind groups make people have fellowship.
These people try to make others join into their groups to clam against their country. Human
kind group give them more power of action.
A negative aspect of human kind groups is that people sometimes misuse label
others/things. For example, there are two liquids with clear color and one with red. Most of
people drink clear liquids and avoid red one; however, they have decided it just by colors, so
it is possible that one of those clear liquid is an acid and red liquid is harmless red vegetable
dyes (“Labels and Stereotypes”).

5. This picture shows two clear and one red liquid. Liquid A is an acid; however, when
people label these, they might avoid Liquid B and choose Liquid A or C.
In the same theory, when I go to hot spring in Japan, I always see the signboard which
says that “people who have tattoos are not allowed to come in” because we label people who
have tattoos as gangs. However, sometimes, there is an exception that some people who have
tattoos might not be gangs. In this case, it can be concluded that manager of the hot spring has
discriminated those people who are not gangs. Therefore, there is a negative aspect of human-
kind groups.
Almost every public baths have this sign board because they think that people who have
tattoos are gangs, so they believe that other customers will be threatened.

6. Part 3 - Approximately 2 paragraphs.
Use unique examples to explain two reasons for conflict between members of cultural/H-
K groups. One example needs to come from research and one example must be
personal.
One reason for conflict between members of cultural groups is because people do not
accept other people who belong in “wrong” human-kind groups. For example, young
man in New York who loved his family had killed other’s family because he thought
that those victims did not belong to his group which he cared of. (“US and Them”)
Also, in Japan, criminal koizumi, who had killed people who (he thought) killed his
dogs, said that those victims were evils and not even human being. (“Dog lover
calls…”)
This is a picture of Mr. koizumi who had killed many people because he thought that
those people belonged to different human kind groups.
Also, people came to conflict when one’s values are threatened by others or when people
have different values from others. For example, personally I and my friends value in efforts;
therefore, when we make a great effort on a project and others who did not spend so many

7. times on it took a same grade, we became so upset because it seems like that our value are
denied or rejected by teachers.
This picture resituates a scene which I worked
hard and took a same grade as student who did
not work hard.
Part 4 - A Written Conclusion - Approximately one-two paragraphs.
This should be the last thing you complete as it will tie together the comments and
images you have used to address the main points above. You will also want to include
any ideas you have about how conflict can be prevented. These conclusions should be
consistent with what you have said earlier.
Human kind groups are important for one’s identity because it sometimes makes
one’s values and duties. It can make people feel confidence, and by predicting other’s
characteristics through labeling, they can stay away from the troubles. On the other hand,
human –kind groups are misused when people mislabel others/things. Also, it might lead to
the conflicts between human kind groups, as people consider people in other human kind
groups as “outsiders”. Also, many people in a same human kind group respect in same values,
(because human kind groups are making one’s value) then it might lead to a conflict when
their values are denied by others who do not respect same values/ in the different human kind
groups.
However, to prevent the conflict, people should join in many human kind groups.
The extensions of communities make people know or understand critically about others’
values or aspects which they have not value or even have criticized. For example, before, I
thought that those people in Japanese club are frisky when I saw them in the year book.
However, that perception has changed after I joined in Japanese club and saw those members

8. practicing very hard for the Assembly. Therefore, joining in varieties of human kind groups
might lead to a preventing conflict.
This is a picture of Japanese club in 2007, when I was not in the club. When I saw
this picture, I thought that they do nothing in the club. However, when I join in the club, I
could see that actually, they are working hard.