Creative Friction : Some Preliminary Considerations on the Socio-Cultural Issues Encountered by Indonesian Nurses in Japan

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Seeking to offer a balanced perspective to socio-cultural differences encountered by Indonesian nurses in Japan, this article provides a glance into a variety of circumstances under which these differences surfaced. A number of socio-cultural issues encountered by Indonesian nurses in Japan are discussed, of particularly importance among which is the one related to religion, for none of the Moslem nurses interviewed reported any serious problems related to their religious practices. But, probably the most enlightening finding of all is that some of the socio-cultural issues have proved to be creative, providing glue that gives meaning to cultural interactions, a process that this study proposes to call “creative friction,” following a felicitous phrase coined by Anna Tsing (2005).
2010-06-30