Social Network Among Students

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Social Relationship and Language Barrier among Students Muhammad Umar Farooq Department of Civil Engineering The University of Tokyo umar@ken-mgt.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Abstract There are many factors like language, nature of job, personal attitude and other cultural factors which affect the social relationship and it also becomes one of the important issues in Japan. In this paper, the author tried to evaluate these factors especially the language among four laboratories of Civil Engineering Department in The University of Tokyo. This research comes with very interesting facts that besides the language and nature of person, nature of research and academic degree also one of the important factor for social relationship. 1 Introduction Social capital is dependent on Language and culture as well. Effective communication of ideas and thoughts become difficult if language and cultural barriers exist, as these barriers are hurdles against proper and effective communication among individuals or groups2. Be a social is also very important part of our life because it is impossible to survive alone in this hectic and tough life. To survive a healthy life, we must keep balance among our working, family and other social life as well. Japan is very ideal country to live. It’s very safe and peaceful country and peoples here are very honest and quiet as well. The uniqueness of the Japanese society makes Japanese language a heavily culture-laden one1, which contributes much to the language barrier between Japanese and foreigners. 1.1 Objectives Following are the focus of this study.. 1) Is language a barrier to make a good relationship? 2) Is a level of degree matters to being more social? 3) Which type of lab members are more social? 4) Foreigners are good in making relationship or Japanese? 5) Who is Central person? 1.2 Limitations a) Only four
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