Extracurricular Activities and Uncertainty Avoidance

 Wassup Everyone, how are you? ‘S all good man? Vamoooos!

In the last class we discussed about familiar topics for me: extracurricular activities and uncertainty avoidance. I want to start with the extracurricular activities because it is something pretty common in Mexico. In Japan there’s A LOT of sports clubs, art clubs, writing, journalist, etc., same as in Mexico and this is pretty common since early years of school like elementary, maybe I’m biased because I went to a really nice private school which I’d say most of them offer many activities after school; like soccer, volleyball, swimming, atletics, music, drawing, karate, school journal, etc.

Most students join these activities because they like it but some others join because their parents said so, or maybe their parents are busy and they have to wait until afternoon or night to be picked up and they have to do something in the meantime, in Japan it seems that it is something cultural, people like this sense of belonging and teamwork (and they take it very seriously) while in Mexico it’s something more individualistic and not because of the group conciousness. Personally I join athletics and swimming because I was too fat and my mom wanted me to be more fit haha, Eventually I liked it and moved out to other sports like Boxing, Gym and running.

About the Hofstede’s Uncertainty Avoidance… Japanese people have high uncertainty avoidance because they prefer to have clear and specific rules, they don’t like to improvise or to be clueless in the situation, I think this is something good for a high-discipline culture like Japan, meanwhile in Mexico and most Western countries I’d say is the opposite, we have rules and guidelines of course but most of the times we prefer to improvise and adapt to the situation and maybe change the rules in order to fulfill the task.

That’s it for this week, thanks for reading amigos!! :)