The hospital that I worked for as a fresh maternity nurse was really unique for its percentage of foreigners’ deliveries-one third of a monthly delivery.

However, I had a bad impression about taking care of foreign women since it was troublesome as it took me longer time compared with the care of Japanese mothers.

From the characteristics of the district, there were many Asian patients who spoke Chinese and Korean which were the languages unfamiliar to me and I even kept having my stereotype that we wouldn’t be able to understand each other.

However, days made me change to have questions or interests in them. I found that they talked about the things about delivery that I had never thought about, and did the things which I had never seen and could be seen as “crazy”.

But after those talks or actions, they seemed like they were really relieved.
I was shocked.

Honestly, so many kinds of feelings- surprise, unpleasantness, interests all came up to me at the exact same time.

Then I finally realized how indifferent I was and how narrow my view and knowledge was. It took me many years until I got to realize it though.

But thanks to those precious experiences, I ended up going to Australia to study intercultural nursing which definitely made what I am now.

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