Almost people have own parents, family, community and so on. There are our greatest supports to live our life. Especially, hometown is very precious thing for us. We can feel that where we belong with because of hometown. However, sometime we feel like as if we were outsider in spite of we are in hometown. Why people think that so? What is hometown? I consider about the topic.

   I think that change is cause of feeling like outsider. Every time when I go back to my hometown, I can see the regular scenery and meet the regular friends. So, I can feel there is my hometown and I belong in here. Although, I guess that I may feel like as if I were an outsider if the scenery and friends gone, and change my hometown that I pictured to strange space. Even if the location of my hometown has never change, there is not my hometown any longer if there have no things that belong with me. Therefore, we need hometown to proof where we belong with and who I am, I think.

      In the class, we learn about outsider in some countries. I think that they also feel about the changes. Increasing immigrants make their hometown strange place. Opening new cultural restaurants, selling some strange things are the instance of changes. Only that things, but it is very important things for people who living there. Finally, people feel just like they were robbed job and treated cruelly. Can it really be true? I think that it is not true in almost cases, but some changes make them feeling so.

      In conclusion, feel of outsider come from the changes. We cannot live without relations. We need to proof where we belong with and who I am. So, we need to hometown too. I think that if people know about the relations, the matter of outsider is decreasing.

by Erina Hayashi