<p>hey..kristina...u put "possible something?" ...i cant think of the complete answer right now..</p>
<p>the realm they described in the passage was the outside realm of nothingness. cultural vacuum sounds cooler.</p>
<p>Yeah, it was something like the author of the 2nd passage thought that life is what you make of it, and you can take advantage of all the opportunities of everything... and whereas the Japanese in the 1st passage saw the outside world as a magic realm of unknown stuff, this guy saw it was a world of possibilities.</p>
<p>It definitely isn't mystic realm (particularly because the author uses the word realm in the following sentence to criticize the modern world's lack of identity). For that question, wasn't it the first, I believe I put place of stability.</p>
<p>The answer wasn't mystic realm, that was part of the question. It asked what the mystic realm seemed like to the 2nd author.</p>
<p>Conflicted vs integrated - I'm sure of this.</p>
<p>People are shaped by circumstances - It's not people can shape their identities because the passage refers to all the events that "are beyond control"</p>
<p>Stable place -- this is the village question isn't it? The realm where the ancestors lived was a place without all the confusion the author is currently having.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with all that.</p>
<p>Passage 2 listed how people can shape their own identities.</p>
<p>Yeah it did.</p>
<p>so i disagree with the second answer by aKor. However, I think cultural vacuum is wrong now.</p>
<p>Me too. But I can't remember what the other ones were. Did we ever think of them? Man, everything is mushing together in my mind. Evanescing...</p>
<p>its people shape their identities and mythic realm</p>
<p>i am almost positive</p>
<p>Here are the answers to the Mini-Pair that had to do with the ancestors home etc:</p>
<ol>
<li>Conflicted versus Integrated</li>
<li>Village = Stable Environment</li>
<li>Realm = Possibility</li>
<li>People can shape their identities</li>
</ol>
<p>That's it - just four questions!</p>
<p>I think sunnyboy is right on all 4.</p>
<p>wait, wasnt the question about the village and whether it's a cultural vacuum, mystical realm, etc? mythical realm isnt the question. and the possiblities answer was correct, but to another question that talked about the future and how the author of passage 2 viewed teh future .</p>
<p>Sunnyboy is absolutely right.</p>
<p>I think it was definitely cultural vaccuum--nothing changed in the ancestral village, no "possibility" as described in passage 2.</p>
<p>Otherwise, I agree with sunnyboy.</p>
<p>i put cultural vacuum, but i just assumed i was wrong. The possibility question was in reference to the realm outside the small village, which the author of the second passage would have viewed as a land of "possibilty"</p>
<p>i took a test that used the same questions (i found out after searching for answers online). so, since all the answers to nov. 4 2006 test has probably been released by now, could you tell me:</p>
<p>were the pro-Stalin things critiques noxious?
was the village a stable environment? (Japan reading)
Passage 2 differed from passage 1 in that people shape their identity themselves? (Japan reading)</p>