In the last class, we watched the tourism videos of China, Japan and the United States. We observed the difference of each country. I personally would like to mention the difference or characteristics of each country.
The Chinese tourism video features a transition from traditional chinese culture to the modern scene such as the sight of the developed city. The first half part of the video reflect more traditional culture since the old era of China and we observed the chinese traditional instrument, music, dance, temple. The latter part of the video features the scene of the city such as Shanghai or inside of the modern business building. However, at the last part of the video, we observed the scene of the coexistence of the modern city and traditional culture and watched the Chinese people smiling that I personally think represents their satisfactory feeling toward the contemporary Chinese society. China is now wandering about the turning point from the developing country to the developed nation. I personally felt a Chinese power that arises from the sudden change of this age and its accompanying people’s vigorousness in the video.
The Japanese tourism video features a variety of Japanese culture that range from southern part of Japan to northern part. For example, we watched the traditional dance in Okinawa that is influenced by Chinese culture, the farthest south part of Japan or the snowing scene in the northern part. In addition, we watched animation, kimono, tea ceremony, cherry blossoms, the colored leaves of autumn and so on.. I felt like I would like to go back to Japan and learn our distinct culture from the starting point since I did not even know some cultures.
The American tourism video focuses more on the people than that of China or Japan. Although the video shows some distinct places well known such as Hollywood, we mainly observed the way in which American people enjoy their life that range from baby to elderly people. The video shows a variety of way of their lifestyle such as people playing sports, engaged in the agriculture or business person. The video of the United States focuses more on their independent way of life when compared to the Japanese or Chinese tourism video which features more their distinct and traditional culture. Since the United States comprise of people from a variety of countries, it is difficult to cultivate the own culture. Accordingly, people of many races in the United States, however, tell the difference each other, respect for the difference and each people are proud of their independent lives.
In addition, we discussed the difference of power relation in each country in the class. The reading tell us that the boss have the absolute right in the workplace in the high-power relation’s countries. In contrast, the boss and his subordinate are considered as equal status although the subordinate have respect for their boss to a some extent. Based on the reading, we demonstrate the actual situation in the class. I was the part of the role of the high-power society and I played a role of the boss. I was pretending to be the aggressive boss and put the unreasonable demand to my subordinates. While I was performing a play, I felt unnatural. I thought it was stereotype and the reading emphasize the story. In my feeling as a person who have lived in Japan that was said to be a high power relation nation, many Japanese company is now reconsidering traditional high demand structure within the company although it still remains an evil custom to the some extent. However, they are becoming closer to meet the global standard. They are trying to adopt a variety of opinions from even low-rank people in the company. The process of deciding about projects includes communication between a variety of staffs, and the boss do not have the absolute rights but just the right to make final decisions through discussion. The context of this recent situation lies in the the influence of the globalization. Under the influence of the globalization, the neighbor countries’ company such as China and Korea are advancing overseas to meet the large oversea market. In contrast, Japanese companies are lagging behind them. Japanese population are recently decreasing and there is getting little demand in Japan. In order to overcome the situation, many Japanese companies are trying to learn the structure of foreign companies. Day by day, they are getting more efficient operation and one of the examples are the change of the power relations within the company. However, they still need to make more efforts to be recognized as members of the globalized network.
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