JAPAN:RACE AGAINST TIME Introduction The way of the samurai. The way of the soldier. Sword and Gun. Culture and Technology. Which will rise? Which will fall? Will both of them rise or both of them fall?Assalammualaikum,a very good morning and minna!Ohayou gonzaimasu.Watashi wa Faridzul Zuhaili Bin Zinal Ariffin.Dozou yoroshiku onegai shimasu’ as it mean I am Faridzul Zuhaili Bin Zinal Ariffin in Japanese.
Today,I will talk to you about something that will hold your interest on culture and technology which is the way for the Japanese to keep their culture with technology by using the technology for a convenience culture life,spread their culture through technology,and combine culture and technology in certain event. I bet all of you were thinking,”why is he talking in Japanese languange?”Well,today I will focused my speech on one of the most develop country in the word but still maintain their culture.But first,I would like to ask all of you something.Do you know what is ‘culture’?For your information,there are 2 type of culture which is Sub-culture and Social class culture.Sub-culture is a type of culture based on the country’s race or religion.Meanwhile,Social class culture is a type of culture that based on a person class such as low class,worker class,middle class and upper class.Most of people in the world misunderstood culture with tradition.Well,culture is culture and tradition is tradition.Ok,in your oppinion,what is the different between culture and tradition.Can I have a volunteer please?For me the answer is most of tradition are culture but not all culture are tradition.As you can see,not all culture are about tradition.For example,Japanese hobies of collecting manga also known as comic and anime also known as animation are not from their tradition.However those are considered as cultured as those are what they shared and do together in their life. Body
Ok,let’s get started with our topic of how Japanese manage to keep their culture with technology by using the technology for a convenience culture life. Nowadays,there was a barrier that keep the Japanese to live their culture and it is technology.Modern technology nowadays had kept the Japanese off their culture.Day by days,the Japanese forgot what they used to do together,what they used to eat together and what they used to played together.However,there were a group of people that realize about the situation and decide to take a few action to keep their culture strong.One of their strategy or plan is to used their technology to keep their culture in more convenience way.”Why throw if we can recycled it.Why break if we can still use it.”is what the Japanese were thinking.Why should they get rid the technology if they can use it as an opportunity to larger their culture.The Japanese saw the technology as an opportunity to turn their culture life easier.For example,the Japanese always celebrated New Year festival by going to the temple wearing Kimono,eat various kind of snack and play a lot of game.However,for those who live or studying outside of the country,they don’t have the opportunity to celebrate with their family or friends.But,with nowadays technology,they can celebrate it even if they apart with their family.The technology they’re using are 3g phone and webcam.For the japanese,they still happy to celebrate their festival as long as they can see their family faces.By using using 3g phone and webcam on laptop,they can still see their family and friends faces.Also,the Japanese used the technology of social network to keep in touch with their family and friends and to re-adapt theirself to their culture.
Now you know how the Japanese use their technology for making their culture life more convenience,let’s continue on how the spread their culture through technology The Japanese also using their technology to spread their culture worldwide.Who here never heard of the word Sumo,Sushi or Kendo?I bet most of you have heard all of these word word before.This is to show how the Japanese had successfully spread their culture trough technology.The Japanese had spread their culture trough various way such as the television,internet and radio.The Japanese had made a lot of movie that showed their culture such as Samurai X,Death Note,and even Kamen Rider which full with science fiction also present a lot of their culture.They also produce a lot of documentary-like-show to show their culture.Nowadays,the Japanese had living with one of kind culture which is watching anime,reading manga and playing games.To balance this culture and technology,the Japanese had decided to create application so that they can watch anime,read manga and play games via online.This idea had made their culture more easy to live with and more convenience.Using the imternet,they also can spread their manga,anime and game culture world wide.Besides that,they also use radio as medium to spread their culture by produce song that represent their culture.
As you can see, Japanese have a very creative thinking to spread their culture.Now,let’s see how they combine their culture and technology. The Japanese also gain an idea to strenghten their culture alongside technology by combine both of them in certain celebration or activities.For example,when the Spring season come,it is their culture to sit down under a Sakura tree ang hold a party.But,what is a party without entertainment.Before the technology era arrives,they will just having fun by making jokes and laugh out loud.When the technology era arrives,they add in few extra entertainment in their party such as kareoke.Live concert which also one of the Japanese culture also had combined with technology well.Before,they will just held a concert where the singer will just sing and only sing.But,nowadays,they will held a concert with high technology ‘boom’ or lightning effect with some video include which make it more interesting. .Believe me or not,the Japanese has a city named Akihabara that rich with culture and technology for purpose to harmonised these both elements in their country.
Now that all of you know how genius are the Japanese to gain such idea,our talk is almost come to an end. Conclusion
By now,you should realize about the meaning and creativity about the Japanese way to keep their culture with technology by using their technology for a covenience culture life, spread their culture through technology,and combine culture and technology in certain event. The Japanese had their own way of thinking of technology.That is why no matter how fast the time goes by,how big their technology has expand,they still can maintain their culture because they do not throw away their technology nor give up their culture.Instead,they combined and balanced of them.This is what we call creative thinking.For the Japenese,culture and technology is not a matter which one will rise nor which one will fall.But it is all about rise of both culture and technology.With this,I will end my speech this words,”Let both the cruise and the crew sail safely trough the ocean”.Assalamualaikum,goodbye and sayounara.Thank you.