TeamTOYOTA- 1
Humanication –Make Your Own Palette-
National Institute of Technology, Toyota College
A: Have you ever heard of “Humanication”? I think not. “Humanication” is a coined word, which is combined with both human and communication, and that means “beyond the communication”. Today we would like to tell you how to realize “Humanication”.
B: But this is the first time you heard the word “Humanication”. So we will use a palette and a color theory to let you understand easily.
C: This is my palette. The Palette represents my mind.
B: Wow, your mind is full of colors.
C: Yes, this is my own color and these colors around it is what we call individual colors. Those individual colors are the values that I’ve got from people.
B: What made your palette look like this?
C: A lot of things, but there were three steps.
A: Now let’s see those three steps to make your palette better for “Humanication”.
C: First, colors dropped and blended.
A: We told that you got the colors from people. When you meet people, their colors will be dropped and blended into your own color. The point is that you cannot consider rejecting them. In this case, the colors are their values.
B: Now let me tell you a story from my exchange year! Please hear me out! This is really surprising.
C: What is it?
B: In Hungary, people eat rice with sugar and cocoa powder!
C: Are you serious? I can’t believe it.
B: Look at this. Rice pudding. It is really sweet. I tried it once, but never again. Still I don’t regret that I did it. That was a good experience to know a different culture.
A: His story tells us that different colors will be dropped and blended into your own color without any your intension when you meet people. And you can also experience like this even if you met the people in your home country because people have different colors for each.
C: Second, colors accepted and comprehended.
B: When the opposite color invades your own color, how would you handle it? For instance, when you meet people who have completely different backgrounds.
C: That color might invade your own color and verse vice, that is to say you reject that color.
B: Just rejecting it. That’s it?
C: No, you also have to compromise.
B: You mean you should always compromise on others?
C: Not always, I guess.
A: It is very difficult to handle new colors first and it’s more difficult to do so if they are the opposite. However compromise, in other word self-sacrifice, is important to understand others’ sense of values.
B: Self-sacrifice sounds harsh, but I understand the importance of it in the Japanese context. How can you manage to do that?
C: The simplest way is reading books.
B: How come?
C: Reading books enables you to experience what someone else has gone through so that you can consider other’s point of views and sense of values.
B: So you’re saying that reading books helps you accept and understand other colors.
C: That’s right. By reading books, you can learn how to deal with new values.
A: It is impossible to persist selfishly in the relationship with people and at some point it will be inevitably necessary to sacrifice yourself. Self-sacrifice is all about to think of others based on their sense of values not selfishly but separately from your own benefits.
C: On the other hand, it is also important to retain yourself. If you don’t keep your own color when the new color comes to your palette, you might lose your own color.
A: You’re right. But retaining yourself leads you to accept and comprehend the different colors.
C: Third, colors shined and diversified.
A: We already talked about how to handle the new colors and the importance of self-sacrifice in the previous part. Now you need to enhance the values to revise individual colors.
B: What do you mean with “enhance”?
A: In own color, we have thousands of colors mixed, which we obtained through our lives. They remain in own color and do not emerge on the surface as individual color.
B: We have the advantage of possessing a lot of colors on our palettes.
C: Then, how can we make our palette so colorful?
A: Please think what we told you today. All of them are the keys to make your palette more colorful.
C: Okay, let us review it. First, colors will be dropped and blended into your own color.
B: Second, you must read books to compromise and make your own color brighter by retaining yourself. And by doing so, you will be able to accept and understand the different colors.
C: Lastly, you enhance the colors to revise individual colors and you do the same thing over and over. After all, you will have a much more colorful palette.
A: Correct. Now you have the diversity of colors on your palette.
B: So that means we have accepted lots of sense of values and have gained the diversity of values.
A: Yes. This is the most important thing to realize “Humanication” and it is based on the color theory.
B: This theory states some of colors don’t match with each other. In other words, some of them don't suit your palette. Humans are really similar to this or perhaps even much more complex than this.
C: There are already 7.6 billions of people, 190 countries and 6,900 different languages all over the world. Each country has their own culture and surrounding, which makes people’s colors just different from country to country.
A: Yes, there are many kinds of colors in the world. Of course, some of them don’t suit your palette. That’s true. But as we told you today, if you have the diversity of colors on your palette, you can see the world and the people with more understanding. Also I’m sure of it that you can communicate better with a variety of people.
B: Now you know how to realize “Humanication”. It depends on you if the world will be better or not.
C: Let’s make the world better with us by using your beautiful palette.
ABC: “Humanication”