My Study Trip To Australia

The Japan study tour was a beneficial course to my study of Japanese language and Multimedia, as well as benefiting me personally. The study tour aided my Japanese Language studies as it allowed me to properly immerse myself in the culture and ways of living, allowing me to use my language skills in a more natural environment. To this end it expanded my understanding of the Japanese way of life, and in what circumstances I should use certain aspects of their language. This allowed me to further my study into the Japanese culture and language, and learn what I couldn 't in a classroom environment. Furthermore, the study benefited my Multimedia studies. The tour allowed me to witness a completely different media environment, one that I could …show more content…
Due to Australia being settled and following British rule for an extended period of time, Australia celebrates similar holidays to the United Kingdom. This has resulted in Australia following the Christian calender when it comes to their public holidays, which differs from Japan, which follows a mix of Shinto and Buddhist holidays. Consequently, Japanese people don 't learn about Easter or Good Friday, and therefore don 't learn of the Easter bunny and other such characters like we do as children. This never occurred to me before going to Japan, and I only realised once I had conversation with one of my Japanese friends. Furthermore, Japan stays loyal to the traditional way of celebrating their holidays, such as holding festivals and events. While Australians do stay loyal to some aspects, however our festivals have become very commercialised. Not only this, but since we are still a young country and still celebrate British holidays, despite our independence, you could say we have become detached from such celebrations, such as the Queen 's …show more content…
Because of a Western background Australia 's way of living is vastly different to the Japanese. Due to the focus on tradition the Japanese have many traditional courtesy focused aspects to their way of living. These aspects include things like taking off your shoes before you enter a house, taking off slippers before you enter a room with a Tatami mat floor, through to saying thank you before and after meal, especially in public. While these aspects are apparent in Western society, they are followed more for a practical purpose, such as not wearing the shoes in the house to keep it clean. Even though these could be said to be traditional aspects for Australian society, they aren 't as strictly followed as the Japanese traditions. This could be as a result of the Japanese peoples traditional focused education, Australia not having much connection with the British traditions they adopted, and that Australia 's multiculturalism results in us not having a single traditional set of values that we follow, since everyone follows their own cultural ideals. As a result this makes Japan seem more “tradition rich” then Australia.

Overall I learnt a lot from my tour of Japan. Being exposed to such a culture and tradition rich society gave me a completely different perspective of the world as a whole, and as a result has benefited me personally. Furthermore experiencing the media business