Thursday, January 1, 2009

My opinion about Japanese culture

Japan is a beautiful country. She has many beautiful scenery and seasonal weather. I used to look the picturesque scenery from advertisement, drama and travel program from television. Japan has busy and prosperous city like Tokyo. There are many people passing through the main road and walking by the roadside. There are many lights of various colours at night. It makes the night beautiful. Japan also has scenic village landscape especially during the winter. I like white snow there although I have never seen snow in front of me in any other places.
From drama, I realized that Japanese are loyal to their job and company. They work hard with their job and company. They are dedicated. Some of them only work in one company from young age until they are retired. The company also treats them well in return.
The teenagers in Japan are very fashion. They like cosplay. I think they are rich because the costume is very expensive. But it is very interesting to see some characters in comic books become a real person. Not only the costume, those people also imitate the hair style of the character in the comic books. They can do it exactly same as in the comic books. They imitate the roles very well. Some of them will show themselves on a street. But I cannot remember the name of that street. I get to know this mostly from the news in television.
In addition, Japanese are the people who care about cleanliness of the environment. Some of the old citizens who live near the Mountain Fuji climb the mountain every day. They will collect garbage at the road when they climb the mountain. Because of their determination, the environment at the Mountain Fuji is very clean although there are many tourists go there every day. Tourists will keep the environment clean automatically as the environment is clean. I read this information from newspaper. Other than that, the cities are also clean although many people live in there. Not only the houses of residents who live in the cities are clean, but streets also clean. Japanese have build up a good image among other countries.
I also realized that Japanese are always bowed down 90 degree. They are able to bowed for many times. They bowed down to show their respect to someone. I had read an article that state this motion of Japanese have increase the risk of getting headache compared to other country’s people. It is hard for me to do the 90 degree bowed down.
Other than that, Japanese are strongly respect to the elders. The younger person must respect to the elders and new person must respect to old or experienced person especially in the part of occupation. That is a good habit, but some elders will bully the younger person like knock the head of someone. Nowadays, this phenomena may had been decreased or disappeared.

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