Japanese popular culture

Trends: An Epidemic Every generation has its own memorable trend, such as leather jackets in the 50’s, leg warmers in the 80’s, and more recently, Silly Bands in the 2000’s. How did these trends come to be? In Malcolm Gladwell’s, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, the author explains that a trend is spread by essentially word-of-mouth until it reaches the pinnacle of its popularity, then eventually fading in prevalence. Not only this, but Gladwell likens trends to…

According to Oxford dictionary, pop culture is defined as “ Modern popular culture transmitted via the mass media and aimed particularly at younger people”. Pop culture cultivates individuals’ problem-solving facilities that allows the progression of their growth and intelligence. In the article, “Brain Candy,” Malcolm Gladwell analyzes Stevens Johnson's perspective towards popular culture and its effects on intelligence. Johnson introduces more ways of getting “smart” in “Everything Bad is good…

to Western culture, the mindset of “One is more attractive to another one if one is westernized,” is planted and rooted in most of the youth’s brain cell. In contrast to Asian culture which is conservative, Western culture is a more liberal policy towards material and non-material culture such as wearing, thinking, and others. In my opinion, I strongly agree with the writer’s opinion as it is undeniable that young people in general would rather prefer Western culture over Asian culture due to…

studying how they are understood by a certain cultural group. I chose Japanese Americans because Japan and America have very contrasting views and distinct understanding on the LGBT community in society. With this, my audience based research question was the following: how are Mitch and Cam understood by the Japanese American community? To answer the question I created, I chose to interview one of my friends, Mira. Mira is half Japanese and half French. She was born in Paris but lived most of…

History Tattooing has been practiced for centuries in many cultures and spread throughout the world The Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, traditionally had facial tattoos, as did theAustroasians. Today, one can find Atayal, Seediq, Truku, and Saisiyat of Taiwan, Berbers of Tamazgha (North Africa), Yoruba, Fulani and Hausa people of Nigeria, and Māori of New Zealand with facial tattoos. Tattooing was popular among certain ethnic groups in southern China, Polynesia, Africa, Borneo, Cambodia,…

immediately showing displeasure towards the person who will become his best friend. More important than Jin’s rudeness is his refusal to speak Chinese. As a part of the Chinese heritage, Jin has no interest in associating himself further with the culture by speaking Chinese. While Jin feels it's a necessity to speak english, he also tries to branch out to other Americans. As Jin progresses through school, he begins to set his eyes on girls. Jin begins to fall for an American girl, Amelia. He…

In my opinion, we are living in a global society now. There are a great number of situations can reflect the globalization. For example, every primary school establishes basically second language course, such as English, Japanese, Spanish, to eliminate the language obstacle and strengthen communications between each countries. Additionally, multinational companies development is influenced by globalization that the companies can acquire more opportunities to expand the industry scale and user…

INTRODUCTION: Culture portrays the life style and attributes of specific group of people. It also includes the way we speak, dressing style, attitude, learning, believes, values and norms. There are many factors which affects the marketing strategies for a product promotion like target market, budget, economy and competition but culture also has a great impact on consumer preferences which was not considered as an important factor few years ago. Marketing strategies are related with product…

transition – a decision to leave my family, my friends, my home, and everything else I was familiar with for the past 18 years of my life. The word “culture shock” does not even get close to summarizing all the struggles of an international student, but despite all the difficulties, I am absolutely loving it. Immersing yourself in a different culture is such a unique experience – it challenges the ideas that you have long regarded as “facts,” introduces you to different people through…

Hello, and welcome to the St. Edward’s University Art Gallery. Today is an exhibition that reflects artwork that demonstrates the progressiveness of artist after moving past the more traditional and classical artwork. This audio guide will have you following along the paintings on the wall, and lastly the sculptures and models in the middle of the gallery. Watch your step and enjoy! Entering the gallery from the left door, looking to your right on the wall you will find Edvard Munch’s” Night in…