Japanese culture's affects on Thai teenager
In nowaday, it is a normal thing of you see a teenager dressed in a strange colored dress, abnormal style, or an unearthly hairstyle. Some of them also has a different activities from he teenager that we know in the past. Those activities are listen to song a song or dance in Japanese song and style. In their hands, they may held a bottle or a can of green tea. As you can see, there are Japanese restaurant almost everywhere in Thailand. For the example, Fuji, Yayoi, Ootoya. We can see that there are these kinds of restaurant more than original Thai restaurant in Thailand. In the department store and on the street also. This is because Japanese food is very popular to Thai people especially, to Thai teenager. All of these culture are from Japan. The teenager receive them from the singer, actor and an actress that they like. Teenager is a period of a human that will follow the person that they like the most in human life. They can know those singer and actor from the movie, series, or a song that they watch or a magazine that they read. It called a J-pop (Japanese-pop) culture. Some of them can receive these culture from Japanese animation. They start to follow the culture from the activities which the character in the animation do. Such as to n online chat. I would like to show you how these Japanese culture affects Thai teenager in term of fashion, music and food.
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