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VII. Donft Second Guess but Seek the Essence Within
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―Basically we hear you really help to break down stereotypes, which is really what diversity is all about. Now if you would like to give a final message to the Japanese society.
Mark: Many years ago when I was about 14 or 15, my mother had come back from PTA at school. This has nothing to do with diversity. This is about a story written by a child, and my Mom showed me, but it had terrible spelling. The story was very interesting. She showed it to me, and it was very good. All the parents at PTA were saying that it was terrible, but what my mother was telling me, I realized was that the form may not be the same as the substance, or the spelling or appearance was bad, but we have to look past that to see something in there. That feeling has stayed with me all these years trying to look through. We were discussing this.
Mary: Very interesting idea.
Mark: I was thinking about the song, “Imagine.” Everyone thinks that this song is by John Lennon, but actually Yoko Ono wrote the words for the song. I think that is one of the things we can see where you have an impression of something.
Mary: Everyone thought this was British, Beatles, John Lennon and he had this beautiful idea about people living in harmony and there should be no racism or prejudice or one religion. This was actually written by a Japanese woman.
Mark: Actually the combination of the two had made it into something very special. The song was No. 1, the song of our century.
―Even now.
Mary: It was about diversity.
Mark: I suppose thatfs what I think about, though it may be idealistic. If you wish a message about diversity, it is something to think about this song. Not only about the meaning of the words, but how it was put together, and the story of their relationship.
―Thinking back on your conversation, your business being a gateway, I think that it would become very big in the future.
Mark: We need to make the gateway wider.
―You will have a lot of elderly people retiring. They need something to do. If you can create a business within your expertise, possibly interesting things can happen.
Mark: I know older people use the Internet to talk with their children and grandchildren. Maybe we will start to see older people around the world meeting and talking with each other. Actually our business is going there. Some of the things we are doing now, which is not only for Japan but making a system of international friendship. It does not matter which country.
Mark/Mary: When we do something on the Internet, it goes out to the whole world. We are trying to bring more people from all over the world together!
September 14, 2006
Interview: NPO JKSK
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