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A Search for Transnational Culture: An Ethnography of Students in an International School in Japan.

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Willis, David B. – 1987

This anecdotal ethnography describes the student culture at Columbia Academy, an international school in Kobe, Japan. The paper begins by contrasting the affluence of Columbia Academy and its students with the relative austerity of a nearby Japanese middle school. The paper follows a typical day at Columbia, and describes the nationalities of the…

Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Educational Anthropology, Educational Environment