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| Thailand's beaches |
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| Bangklok, Thailand |
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| Emerald Temple - Bangklok, Thailand |
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| Contemporary Buddhism Temple in Thailand |
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Kingdom of Thailand
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Project about Poverty Reduction in Thailand 2011
References
1. Seven success stories from northeastern Thailand (English version) - Part 1. (2011, May 21). Retrieved from Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXW4XrtDlg&feature=player_embedded
2. Seven success stories from northeastern Thailand (English version) - Part 2. (2011, May 21). Retrieved from Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jFz0b26hOzI
Friday, July 6, 2012
Movie: Farewell, My Concubine
1. What are the values that are admired?
The values that I admired are friendship, loyalty, obedience, and discipline.
2. How to people interact with one another?
People interact with respect most of the time, at least with the famous actors and people of the government. But they also interact very differently towards actors, women, prostitutes and children.
3. How is the culture similar or different from mine?
It is very different. They taught children how to do opera with hard punishments, violence and discrimination. They didn’t have a good guidance about how to survive once they were unable to work as actors or the new life style once the war was over, but they learned that friendship was strong.
4. What did you learn about the culture from watching the movie?
They tried to protect their opera, their art, and their friendship even when a woman tried to interpose between them. They had to assume many consequences because of the political problems of the country.
5. Would you like to visit the country or meet people from the country?
Explain your answer. Yes, because I liked Asian culture and I would like to learn a little more about their customs, their history, art and traditions.
References
Farewell to my concubine trailer. (2009, October 20). Retrieved from Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC-_SLiRnJE&feature=player_embedded
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Extra Credit Movie: The King and I
1. What are the values that are admired?
The values that I admired are loyalty to the king, friendship, love, and respect.
2. How to people interact with one another?
There are two different interactions in the movie. The first one is between an American woman with the king; she talked to him with honesty, and he tried to understand her. The second interaction is between the Thai people with the King; Thai people had to bow in front of the king all the time, they showed him respect, and they never talked without the king’s permission.
3. How is the culture similar or different from mine?
The movie shows two different cultures, both different from mine. It shows the American and Thailand culture, but there is one principal aspect that makes a big difference; the movie is from 1944. The differences are: they had a king, all the people had to bow to him in order to express respect to him; they only talked if the king allowed it. Thai people treated their king as their highness and no one could say “no” to him. Americans were more independent, honest, they respect each other but they did not have to bow the same way. Nowadays people do not bow to each other and they can say anything. Another difference is that the women in Thai were treated as a inferior human beings, more like a trading good to their king, but it is different now because women are considered almost as equal as men (at least in paper). Also Thai people believed in slavery, which is now against human rights.
4. What did you learn about the culture from watching the movie?
I learned that people have changed their mind about war, government, slaves, women, respect. They had beautiful clothing, beautiful music, but they were close-minded. People didn’t have as many opportunities to learn, to be free as we have in America nowadays. One important thing that I learned from the movie was that children respect their parents’ opinion, specially their father’s.
5. Would you like to visit the country or meet people from the country? Explain your answer
Yes. I would like to visit their country or meet people from there because I would like to learn more about their culture. I like their architecture, their clothing, their music and their food. I think Thailand is a beautiful place to visit.
Reference
"The King and I" - Etc., etc., etc., . (2009, November 22). Retrieved from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j-t7uVdID3s
Extra Credit: Lowe Art Museum
The Lowe ArtMuseum is a place with a big variety of art. They have galleries from different cultures and countries. They gave us a really good tour in which we had an opportunity to admire the Japanese art since its beginning. I think Japanese art is mostly divided in four parts: the ancient art, theEdo and Meiji period, and the modern art. Their art has many differences between each other and it also shows a big part of the Japanese culture. For example; at the beginning their art was mostly sculpture in wood and paint, andafter that the artist used it to stamp his/her design in a paper, they calledthis kind of art: Woodblock prints. They also used some kind of art in theirclothing to show how rich was a person; they had in their obi or belt somethingcalled Netsuke (a figure made from a variety of materials). Between the Edo and Meiji period there were big advances in art, such as the use of color in their pictures and paintings; for example, they colored their pictures manually to incorporate color in them. I really liked the screens or “Byobu” that Japanese people used in the Edo period to separate their rooms instead of walls. Also they have a variety of porcelain objects highly decorated called “Kutani Ware." During the Meiji period, they started painting more about high class prostitutes or Geishas, warand high class society. It was reallyinteresting to learn about the Japanese art through all the art pieces thatthis museum has. References
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