hospitality business in Japan
Segun DeSilva Rec 3999 The hospitality business in Japan is multifaceted and serves basically the same purpose to make a tidy profit. The various hotels range in the capsule hotels that serve company men, love hotels for lovers, hotels in coastal areas and the traditional 4 star style hotels. While living in a small town [...]
Coconut Oil: the emerging substitute on the Global market
I have a feeling this was for Dr. Meredith’s South East Asian Economic Geography class. You can tell it was a rush job because, I didn’t even post a class. This is a draft, I couldn’t find the final version. However, I thought it warranted being posted. Only to show, what a rush job of [...]
Raise of a Nationalistic Propaganda Machine
The Geography department was lovely to me. They allowed me to write whatever I wanted and never proofread my work. The beauty was, they were so darn supportive and interested in their students, you wanted to learn. I highly suggest anybody with a chance to experience a course taught by Dr. Meredith Segun “Shuggi” De [...]
How to get yourself an advisor
This was the group summary I turned in my first quarter at CSUH. It was for Dr. Nelson, who would go on to become one of my academic advisors and head of my special major committee. She saw talent I tell you, talent in the ability to do great ethnographic research. Segun “Shuggi” De SilvaAn [...]
The Unique Pattern of Japanese Americans
With a stunning decrease of 9.4 in a 10 year span the Japanese American population is shrinking at an alarming rate (Asian). With every popular anime show on adult swim, must have video game, popular sushi bar and karaoke bar one would believe the impact of Japanese immigration was at an all time boom. The fact that according to statistics from Japans own census bureau 315,976 Japanese nationals had been in the United States in 2002 is a staggering contrast to the 33312 the United States counted as permanent migrants. These statistics along with the domestic born Japanese-American population tell a unique story on assimilation and economic trends.
The Soil
Because I can, I decided to post some of my old papers, unedited of course. Maybe one day, i’ll edit them. Prof Franks preferred to be called Luke. He was the godsend that allowed me to take another Asian history course at CSUEB, with the normal prof off in Japan and China, they brought in [...]