Japanese School Groups

The practice of school groups exist in Japan as well as in the U.S. However, the students’ attitude towards it and relationship inside and outside the groups are different.
Our groups are usually formed based on the thoughts, tastes and feelings rather than the ability. Therefore, it is normal to find a group which has preppies, athletes, and even geeks. This makes cross-group friendship common; most of our groups are not hostile to each other. However, the group which a person usually belongs to is still more or less dominant for that person. If s/he causes some problems and spoils the relationship between s/he and his/her group, s/he might be the target of bullying.
When I was in junior high school, there was a pretty girl who would be counted as preppies if she was in the U.S. She used to be the center of the group she belonged to, but it altered after her trouble with her group members; she was started to be ignored, one of the most popular ways of bullying in Japan, by her former group mates. It took her pretty long time to get out of that situation by joining other group. Murray says that Geeks and Nerds are likely to be considered “losers” and bullied in the U.S., but in Japan, it is the people who cannot get into or pushed out from a group.
Japanese students do not consider which group to belong to as serious as the American students described in Murray’s article. The important thing for us is whether we can belong to somewhere or not.

Self Intro.

どうも初めまして。
国際教養学部１年の漆文（チー　ウェン）と申します。ウェンと呼んでくださいな。
お察しのとおり中国人なのですが、３歳から日本に住んでいますので、中身はほとんど日本人と変わりません。
私の趣味は読書、絵を描くこと、料理、手芸、などなど部屋の中でできることばかりです。
あ、水泳とショッピングも好きですが。
ここだけの話ですが私はいわゆるオタクな人間です。
でもあんまりオタクっぽくないように振舞うようがんばりたいと思います。（笑



Hello everyone,
My name is Wen Qi（the pronunciation for Qi is like 'chie' part of 'achieve'). Please call me Wen.
I'm a freshman of SILS, or the School of International Liberal Studies.
As you can tell from my name, I'm Chinese as well as my parents.
However, as I've spent most of my life in Tokyo, I'm almost Japanese.
My hobbies are reading, drawing, cooking, handcrafting and so on.
Yes, I like spending time inside the house,
Well, I also like swimming and shopping, though.
To tell you my secret, I'm a Japanese comic book fan,or so called 'otaku' .
But I'll try my best not to act too 'otakish'(lol