How Japanese culture affects Thai teenager in term of fashion, music and food?
"As a study on the consumption of Japanese cultural products in Thailand, this thesis attempts to pursue two aims. One is to illustrate the consumption of Japanese cultural products in Thailand through ethnographies and empirical data. The other is to seek a mechanism that explains how and why Thai youth has a positive attitude toward Japanese cultural products." (Toyoshima, 2011)
Japanese cultural products such as J-Pop fan club activities, cosplay activities by manga, anime and game fans, Japanese food, and Japanese kawaii (cute) fashion in Thailand while the previous studies mostly focused on media products such as TV dramas, anime and games.
Sometime, teenager needs to change themselves to interact with their friend. It also be a cause of how they accept the culture that their friend like into their life. However, the most reason why teenager accept these culture is not from their friend but because they see how good points of it can make they have a better life. Japanese culture have a good point and cause a good change to Thai teenager. This can separate into big three parts.
First, It makes Thai teenager have more choices for their lifestyle. It makes a change in Thailand. It also can cause a different perspective from both Thai people and foreigner to Thailand.
It is a good thing to receive a good culture and tradition from other countries to improve our country. There are no country that is perfect in everything. This cause the people to receive others good culture to make change and improve themselves.
"In a disagreement, although we can't say, "This is true because a lot of smart people didn't see anything wrong with it, and who are you to say they missed something?" the fact that something is a tradition is not irrelevant either. Dynamic traditions have, over the years, faced a lot of criticism. They often already include explanations of why common criticisms of the tradition are mistaken. Major traditions have existing literature that provides arguments and ideas on the subject. This literature can answer many disagreements, which are often made in ignorance.
When we find something wrong with a tradition, if at all possible we should improve the tradition, not abandon it. We should seek a way to modify the tradition but also retain existing knowledge. To keep the most existing knowledge, our change should be as small as possible to solve the problem. If we were to start over from scratch, we may avoid the flaw we found, but we're not perfect and our new ideas will contain other flaws. And new ideas won't have the benefit of decades or centuries of people trying to find and correct flaws. We should consequently be respectful of tradition even as we find errors in it, and try to improve it with new ideas of our own."(Elliot, 2010)
How can you know that the culture you give to your child is fit for them? In Thailand, to receive others tradition becomes a normal activity and normal thing. To born to be one nationality doesn't mean that that person prefer to. This is a chance to learn and improve a lifestyle of each person in the way that they prefer. This is a way to give person's life a meaning, too live in peace and happiness.
Second, it makes Thai teenager can support the good relationship of economic between Japan and Thailand.
" The study of Japan began in Thailand in a small way in the 1960s. It increased rapidly over the next three decades as Japan became the most significant external influence on Thailand’s economy, and a growing influence on its modern culture. Over these forty years, almost all the studies by Thai scholars concentrated on the importance of Japan for Thailand – as trade partner, as investor, as model for education, as destination for labor migrants, and as a foil for historical comparison. Only in the last fifteen years have Thai scholars begun to study Japan for itself. "
As you can see, all the people in both country want to support this good economy relationship between Thailand and Japan. The Thai elite has long been interested in Japan’s economic success from the Meiji period onwards (Chatthip, 1983). Even at the time, King Chulalongkorn employed Japanese to teach Thais about silk production, and to serve as legal experts for the government, but he did not hire any expert on industrial development strategies. Later in 1932, when a group of reformers overthrew the absolute monarchy and introduced a parliamentary system, the reformers said they were inspired by Japan’s economic success and parliamentary democracy. Japan is a good example for Thailand. Thai teenager can help supporting this relationship by consume Japanese product and culture. This is one way to keep the relationship developing which everyone can do especially the teenager that have more time to support it more than other period of human's life.
Third, Thai teenager can affected by Japanese culture in term of fashion, food, and music by get a creative idea and the guide for their possible job in the future.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs (n.d.)
It is a good thing to find the thing you want to do since you are young. It can improve more chance to success in your goul more than other. To keep doing a same thing such as study each day cannot make you find the goal or the job you want to do. To see or experience something new to your life can make you thing about what you really want to do. It can inspire you.
"“Find something more important than you are,”philosopher Dan Dennett once said in discussing the secret of happiness, “and dedicate your life to it.” But how, exactly, do we find that? Surely, it isn’t by luck. I myself am a firm believer in the power of curiosity and choice as the engine of fulfillment, but precisely how you arrive at your true calling is an intricate and highly individual dance of discovery. Still, there are certain factors — certain choices — that make it easier. Gathered here are insights from seven thinkers who have contemplated the art-science of making your life’s calling a living." (Popova, n.d.)