皆さん、始めまして。マークスコフィルドでございます。よろしくお願いします。私は二十歳です。私の大学はリンコンランド短大学です。専門はマスコミです。三年生です。ソシオロジが大好きです。ありがとうございます。
For those of you playing the home game:
Everyone, it's nice to meet you. I am Mark Schofield. Please be nice to me. I am 20 years old. My school is Lincoln Land Community College. My major is Mass Communication. I'm in my 3rd year at school. I love sociology. Thank you very much.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Genesis!
Well, here I am, creating a blog. I wanted a nice, efficient online media center for storing my research roughly and without professional touch, so this is what I chose to do. I don't intend on gaining a following or readers with this, which is good. I'm just going to post as I see fit, and enjoy the fact that I can have an organized online media center for my otherwise unpublished thoughts!
A few of my cooperative friends will probably be authoring some posts on this blog as well. Let's get started with the first topic!
A Glance At Japan:
For today's topic, I will start off with one of my specialties. Japan! It's always a nice topic, for the fact that this country provides interesting variants from your run-of-the-mill Western society. Granted Japan may become more and more Western, this adaptive culture melds what is seen to action with the Japanese flare; a personal touch of Japan in every suite.
I'll start with the running theme I caught while dancing around somewhere in Shibuya. Is it just me, or is nearly every Japanese woman completely obsessed with travel? Well, more research into this will be conducted and then reported here, but I think some explanation is due. So many women(and men, but . . mostly women to my observations) in Japan(and of course other countries, but this is about Japan, so be quiet) desire to travel abroad. I wonder where this fascination comes from? Americans tend not to care so much/desire travel internationally to this extent. I find it may be most common in younger girls, aged in their high school years. Could there be an influence within the age group, or even school itself which causes this common desire?
If you take a look at the way Japanese girls are raised, there could be a factor in what they're taught to know about foreign countries. I am more inclined to say the schooling and exposure to very little actual foreign culture might have the most influence. Of course we know it's not just one thing.
Imagine you're taught abut foreign cultures in school, and your only interpretation of what they're like is the basis of some people, friends maybe, or parents, or even teachers, who have told you what those cultures or countries are like. At that point, you might be intensely interested, because in reality these people tell the girls that America, Australia, etc, are exotic and foreign. It happens in America too, when you're told how Asia is and Japan being crazy. The emphasis on foreign lands in centralized countries is exponential. However, women in Japan are not only still much less liberated, but also so much more in tune with outside thoughts in a newly international Japanese culture. Women in America seem not to pay so much attention to the details that women in Japan do. We'll have to do much more field study and read a lot of books on Japanese women (conveniently all of these books are written in Japanese still, and only a few good books exist of English writing, so I'll have to read them in Japanese . . It isn't impossible but, it's surely going to take a bit longer than if I was reading English. :( ) to gain a greater understanding of where these ideals originate and why they're important.
I promise at a later time these posts will get more interesting if you as the reader intend on enjoying and reading them, but if you don't, no worries! I must maintain at least a decent level of professionalism in the writing. Truthfully, I won't be 100% serious with anything I say here because of the fact that hardly any of it is proven, and most of it is derived from etic/emic perspectives that I cannot truly scientifically publish at the moment. Shame, shame.
If you have criticisms, lay them unto me, however know that I am telling you right now I am not a professional as per the word "amateur" in my description of my social science. If you have elaboration or even extra data to submit, do that! I need to obtain many many different artifacts of research. For now, even opinions on the situation are considered as they help build a hypothesis which we may later test. Thank you.
Have a pleasant day everyone.
Note: This blog considers a wide topic area, so most of these posts could be sorted into sub-groups. For example, a specific post of some sort of social science like Anthropology may be noted in the post's Labels, as well as in the post itself for reference.
A few of my cooperative friends will probably be authoring some posts on this blog as well. Let's get started with the first topic!
A Glance At Japan:
For today's topic, I will start off with one of my specialties. Japan! It's always a nice topic, for the fact that this country provides interesting variants from your run-of-the-mill Western society. Granted Japan may become more and more Western, this adaptive culture melds what is seen to action with the Japanese flare; a personal touch of Japan in every suite.
I'll start with the running theme I caught while dancing around somewhere in Shibuya. Is it just me, or is nearly every Japanese woman completely obsessed with travel? Well, more research into this will be conducted and then reported here, but I think some explanation is due. So many women(and men, but . . mostly women to my observations) in Japan(and of course other countries, but this is about Japan, so be quiet) desire to travel abroad. I wonder where this fascination comes from? Americans tend not to care so much/desire travel internationally to this extent. I find it may be most common in younger girls, aged in their high school years. Could there be an influence within the age group, or even school itself which causes this common desire?
If you take a look at the way Japanese girls are raised, there could be a factor in what they're taught to know about foreign countries. I am more inclined to say the schooling and exposure to very little actual foreign culture might have the most influence. Of course we know it's not just one thing.
Imagine you're taught abut foreign cultures in school, and your only interpretation of what they're like is the basis of some people, friends maybe, or parents, or even teachers, who have told you what those cultures or countries are like. At that point, you might be intensely interested, because in reality these people tell the girls that America, Australia, etc, are exotic and foreign. It happens in America too, when you're told how Asia is and Japan being crazy. The emphasis on foreign lands in centralized countries is exponential. However, women in Japan are not only still much less liberated, but also so much more in tune with outside thoughts in a newly international Japanese culture. Women in America seem not to pay so much attention to the details that women in Japan do. We'll have to do much more field study and read a lot of books on Japanese women (conveniently all of these books are written in Japanese still, and only a few good books exist of English writing, so I'll have to read them in Japanese . . It isn't impossible but, it's surely going to take a bit longer than if I was reading English. :( ) to gain a greater understanding of where these ideals originate and why they're important.
I promise at a later time these posts will get more interesting if you as the reader intend on enjoying and reading them, but if you don't, no worries! I must maintain at least a decent level of professionalism in the writing. Truthfully, I won't be 100% serious with anything I say here because of the fact that hardly any of it is proven, and most of it is derived from etic/emic perspectives that I cannot truly scientifically publish at the moment. Shame, shame.
If you have criticisms, lay them unto me, however know that I am telling you right now I am not a professional as per the word "amateur" in my description of my social science. If you have elaboration or even extra data to submit, do that! I need to obtain many many different artifacts of research. For now, even opinions on the situation are considered as they help build a hypothesis which we may later test. Thank you.
Have a pleasant day everyone.
Note: This blog considers a wide topic area, so most of these posts could be sorted into sub-groups. For example, a specific post of some sort of social science like Anthropology may be noted in the post's Labels, as well as in the post itself for reference.
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