Body Art & the Asian Culture Marcie Helman March 22‚ 2009 Body art is a definitive and visual part of the Asian culture used to identify social and religious representations. The term tattoo is derived from the Tahitian word tatu‚ meaning to mark [1]. Throughout history‚ many cultures have socially acceptable ways in which to showcase their individuality. Contrary to popular belief‚ in the Asian culture‚ body modification is typically considered to be distasteful and socially unacceptable
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I’ve always been fascinated with the culture of Chinese myths. Since I was very young I’ve been attracted to its art‚ history‚ symbolism‚ food and culture. Chinese myths are a colorful part of Chinese culture‚ they are imaginative‚ often amusing and usually have a moral message attached to them. "Myth" is a story from ancient times‚ especially one that was told to explain natural events or to describe the early history of a people. The protagonists of these stories are a variety of gods‚ and the
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young ages and an unfit government that allowed chaos to unfold. Conflict arose in China‚ but was it due to internal affairs of the Chinese people and government‚ wanting to maintain its superiority over the West‚ or were outside forces to blame for the extreme change in culture? Both of these aspects united to form seemingly the perfect storm that sent Chinese culture into a downward spiral for excess of 60 years. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty‚ peace was brought to a majority of China and
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Cultural Wedding Ceremony Comparison African and Chinese Wedding Ceremonies Every country has their own way of marrying two people that want to spend the rest of their life together. Each has their own unique ritual of how they go about a wedding ceremony. African and Chinese cultures both have very intriguing ways of how they proceed with their ceremony. It is found that there are many differences between the two of these cultures. This is a result of their own independent beliefs and traditions
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upgrade in Japan’s military as well as a brand new Constitution. This constitution states that “ all people are equal under the eyes of the law”. Many countries have started a constitution similar to this‚ and it was a great step into the future. The Japanese take a full turn in the opposite direction they were a hundred years ago‚ and went from being 100% anti Western‚ to being totally influenced by the Western Society. Japan becomes an industrial power due to there being many new factories and the
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Japanese Isolation Japanese culture from the mid-17th century continuing until the late 19th century experienced immense isolation as a nation induced by the ruling Shogun. This odd choice of action originated from the Portuguese introducing western Christianity to the general population of Japan. Once introduced Christian ideology spread rapidly throughout the country‚ sparking fear into the ruling Shogun concerned with their firm grip over the population. This anxiety led the ruling Shogun to
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when Okuni started to perform short plays in the dry river-bed of the Kamogawa River in Kyoto. The word “Kabuki” is usually written with three Chinese characters: Ka (song)‚ Bu (dance)‚ and Ki (acting and skills)—thus‚ called the art of song and dance (Matsuda‚ 1998). In the Japanese context‚ different authors have different definitions for “kabuku‚” the Japanese verb where the term “Kabuki” came from. According to Matsuda‚ “kabuku‚” meant “to incline”; for Lombard (1928)‚ the verb “kabuku” meant “catching
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Although the Chinese were a hated minority‚ the aerial attack on Pearl Harbor created a significant shift. American culture became more tolerant and accepting of Chinese Americans as “over 13‚000 Chinese Americans were serving in all branches of the Army Ground Forces and Army Air Forces.”‚ which made it the highest percentage of any other American ethnic community (McNaughton). One of these men was Captain Francis B. Wai. During the recapture of the Philippines from the Japanese‚ American troops
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emerging power and status of warriors who resided in the provinces. The fundamental underlying belief of medieval Japanese culture is to fit in with everyone else. Stay in one ’s place and don ’t go against power. To know your place in relation to others is to be secure. In the Edo era‚ rank order was fixed: everybody knew his place on the social
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Women are represented in Japanese Pop Art as a reflection of how they are represented in other forms of media- sexual objects‚ hyper-feminine‚ and unthreatening. One contemporary pop artist‚ Takashi Murakami‚ represents women as sexual objects‚ often with a Western look. However‚ Yoshitomo Nara represents women differently in his works. They are represented as sometimes violent and full of defiant attitude; yet‚ often with a vacant stare that suggest they have no substance. In this paper I will
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