Fifa rejects Englan and Scotland request to wear poppies on armbands.

Summary
Fifa has turned down a request from England and Scotland for players to wear armbands featuring poppies on Armistice. England play Scotland in a Word Cup qualifier at Wembley on 11 November, the day when the United Kingdom traditionally remembers its war dead. The Football Association of Wales says it is seeking approval for its players to wear the poppy symbol on their shirts when they play Serbia on 12 November. The football associations of England, Scotland and Wales also want to know what the potential punishments could be should they decide to flout the rules. The FA hopes to change Fifa’s mind.

Opinion
I think that sports should not have a connection with political or religious problems. Sports are communication tools in World. To wear armband is expressing each idea. Basically people have right to have free idea. Nation must not force players to express nation’s idea. Some groups which are managed by private citizen can force players to wear armbands or not to do. Fifa is international group. If Fifa can force national team player to express each idea Fifa is superior to each nation. I think international organization should not be superior and inferior. Each organization should respect.

Which is better soft or hard Brexit?

Summary

A group of major business lobby groups have written an open letter urging the government to preserve barrier free trade with Europe.

It says that would mean 20% in extra costs for the UK’s food and drink industry and 10% for car producers. These significant costs would affect British exporters and importers. It calls for the government to give certainty to business by immediately ruling this option out under any circumstances.

The letter ends by saying that UK voted to leave the EU but not to cause living standards to decline ;”We want a Brexit that safeguards future prosperity for everyone across the UK.”

 

Opinion

This article tells us some influences by hard Brexit. It is some problems between the UK and the EU but I think the most important problem is in the UK.

Northern Ireland has had an open border with the Republic of Ireland which is a member of the EU. That open border will become the border between the EU and a nonmember. If the government will do hard Brexit, it will have to be equipped with border posts to check goods and passports. It prevents the circulation.

Now some Scots want to declare independence from the UK because they want to remain the EU. If Scotland declare independence, hard Brexit will be not effective for the UK.

I think soft Brexit is better than hard Brexit because we should respect the result of the referendum.

What should we pay attention for using the internet?

Summary

El Chapo is famous as a drug lord in Mexico. He had been taken to a prison because of smuggling drugs, but he has broken out of prison twice.  He was recaputured in January 2016, and he has been in prison now.

But no reputable media organization was reported he had got out. Several different websites published stories saying El Chapo had escaped again.    And people just keep sharing and sharing. It was not the first time that unsubstantiated rumors of El Chapo’s escape circled the internet.

 

Opinion

The internet has some good points and bad points. Most important point is that we can make the websites and we can express our opinion.  Last Sunday we voted the party but its votes are influenced by mass media. We don’t have many places to express.

We can know the newest news and what we can’t understand about our study. But it is not always correct. It is the bad points about the internet. We should pay attention that the website is reliable or not.

When I use SNS I always lock my account. If we don’t lock it we are always seen by people who we don’t know. Recently there are many incidents on SNS. I think SNS should be used between people who know each other.

 

Final essay ; I believe that the fortune-telling is not correct.


I believe that the fortune-telling is not correct, especially the blood type fortune-telling. “What is your blood type?” We sometimes ask our new friends this question. It is a character diagnosis and the blood type fortune-telling is often used at drinking session by Japanese. We judge people based on their blood type. Generally, type of A blood is punctilious, type of B is self-centered, type of O is magnanimous and type of AB, but it is groundless to change the personality by type of blood. Why do people believe it? This time, I focus on the difference with other country, evaluation from another person and psychological factor.

In the first place, this is custom peculiar to Japanese. There is much O-type in the American continent particularly there is an area where is seen in the ratio of O-type over 80% in South America. In India and the Near and Middle East, there is many B-type and there is many A-type in Asia, Europe and Canada. In other countries, it is often same type of blood when people make new friends. They need not ask their friends about type of blood, there are very many people who do not know own blood type, and there is usually no custom that people judge the character of the partner from a blood type. The ratio of Japanese blood types are about A 40%, B 20%, O 30%, AB 10%. Japanese are all types of blood. The case is very rare in the world.

In the second place, we always worry about how other people are viewing us. In the case of A-type, if we are said, “You are cautious” we feel relieved because we think the character is A-type. We do autosuggestion unconsciously and we become to behave ourselves like  A-type. It becomes mean to recognize as one person.

Lastly, people are influenced by “Barnum effect”. We think explanation about the character that it is vague and it is common corresponding to anyone. When people felt partner’s character we had seen some actions, heard some news, or talked. The characters we felt are based on the time and location but we pay attention to only the character. A few years ago, the book of the blood type diagnosis such as “The textbook of the type AB” has become the bestseller before, but it will become reputation even if I make contents the same really and changed only a cover into “The textbook of the O-type”.

The blood type fortune-telling is autosuggestion peculiar to Japanese but actually it is not correct. However, we can use it in conversation as a topic. It becomes mean that we make friends close friends. I want to make friends of AB-type because they are interesting, little strange, and rare not only in Japan but also in the world, and I am type of AB blood.

The influence by impeachment of Rousseff

Summary

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and Vice President Michel Temer takes over as acting president while she is suspending.   There will be held the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro but now they have some problems. Is has been clouded not only by the political crisis, but by Brazil’s deep recession, a vast corruption scandal and the Zika virus outbreak

IOC President Thomas Bach believes that the preparations for the Olympics will not be affected by the political crisis.

 

Opinion

I think this political crisis will be affected for the Olympics because Rousseff is the Latin American giant’s first female president and one of the powerful women in the world.

It was the dictatorship that there has not been a single woman from 1964 to 1985. She stood out in the heavily male-dominated world of Brazilian politics. She made laws protecting women against violence and imposing quotas for black students at university.

Her saying reflects the nation’s voice because women and blacks are half of Brazil’s population. She is wining the nation’s trusts.

In addition, there are only males in Temer’s government. The preparations will not being carried out successfully because many people will protest against the government.

It needs many times to elect a new president. Therefore I think they should organize the investigating commission and the organization for Olympics that there are not only males and they are detached groups from the government.