Posts by: Soyoung_Jung


Understanding other culture

‘Cultural relativism’ is in anthropology is a key methodological concept which is universally accepted within the discipline. This concept is based on theoretical considerations which are key to the understanding of ‘scientific’ anthropology as they are key to the understanding of the anthropological frame of mind. Cultural relativism is an anthropological approach which posit that all cultures are of equal value and need to be studied from a neutral point of view. The study of a and/or any culture has to be done with a cold and neutral eye so that a particular culture can be understood at its own merits and not another culture’s. ‘Cultural pluralism’ is the concept that exists when all groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities. In a pluralist culture, unique groups not only coexist side by side, but also consider qualities of other groups as traits worth having in the dominant culture. For example, a community center in the United States may offer classes in Indian yoga, Chinese calligraphy, and Latin salsa dancing. That city may also house one or more synagogues, mosques, mandirs, gurdwaras, and/or Buddhist temples, as well as several churches of various Christian denominations. The existence of such institutions and practices is possible if the cultural communities responsible for them are protected by law and accepted by the larger society in a pluralist culture.   Culture is diverse and unique itself. Desirable concept of each culture is different. Thus, all cultures should be considered by its own context and value. There is no common standard and value of each society. It is relative. Without considering the unique of each culture, there is no objective standard to compare societies and nobody can say that some cultures are more developed or superior than others. So, I think that we...

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What kinds of food do you eat on a regular basis?

My regular eating habits are as follows. Firstly, I mainly eat 3 low calorie meals each day. These are for my diet. For breakfast, I usually eat a boiled potato with a green tea, and often eat kim-bab or dumpling soup for lunch. I eat Korean dinner with boiled rice and cereals than white rice and vegetables and seafood than greasy food.    Secondly, sometimes I simply drink herb tea during studying. Herb tea is good thing for raising the concentration, so it helps in studying. Especially, when I hope to change the mood from being sad, it helps a lot to drink herb tea of which there are jasmin tea and peppermint tea that I often enjoy drinking.   Thirdly, when I return home after finishing my classes, I regularly eat food that reduce tiredness. When I study all day, it is unavoidable being tired in the body. So, returning home after studying, I usually eat fruits such as plum, apple, kiwi, etc. that could reduce my tiredness.    

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Dream

In our living, we somtime give up because of many difficulties. It may be something that we can do. But how was it you gave up something every time? We blamed ourselves, or sometimes we got way to despair. We can see these kind of things when we should study. Even though we settle our minds completely to start, our minds are shaken and eventually we close our books when we are affected by difficult problems, a lack of concentration, or the environment around us. But due to an unavoidable situation, we open the book and start reading again. This is the common daily of the majority. Why are we doing these thing for what? The hopes of our parents? Or the other persons eyes? if not, we do it because our friends do it? Of course these  could be a reason. But this is not our own will, but only of a forceful rule by others. To us, we have a word “dream” that we can choose according to our own characteristics. This is a personal thing that others cannot influence. When we were a child, we have dreamed our future. Is that dream still continuing? Or perhaps, are you living forgetting all about that dream? Of course, it is not everything to realize that dream we thought of in our childhood. But the dream of those days was happiness and hope. Now if we would want to fall apart due to our ability, how about reminding it to ourselves? What was my own dream? What did I want to become? No matter what difficulty exists, as long as we have hope, a future exists to us.  

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English

English is used in Korea as much as it is no exaggeration to say that it is the second language. Under this circumstances, Korea has taught English from elementary school to university. Besides, there are a lot of English private schools except schools and they teach English from grammar to conversation. English education is needed because it is needed for going to good school and getting good jobs in Korea. The strong point of learning English for a long time is that we can take more knowledge due to much facing English. We can also study plentiful vocaburary and learn hard grammar. Through more reading comprehension, we can improve the skill of reading comprehension and composition. Besides, we can improve conversation as well. However, there are also weak points in this education. The English education of Korea is too focused on grammar, reading comprehension and the cases of conversation or listening are lack in the educational time. So, those who took this education are actually very poor at talking with foreigners. Actually, the fact that there are those who hardly talk with foreigners in English even they took a perfect score in TOEIC has been introduced by mass media. Accordingly, I think that reducing the learning time of only grammar and reading in English class in the school. They had better have more classes of listening and speaking.

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Addephagia

Addephagia is a serious problem. It is very bad for our health. The reasons for addephagia often are extreme diet, or getting rid of the daily stress with intake of food. After overeating, they throw up, take some diet drugs, or severely exercise to control their weight due to obsession. Those who suffer addephagia sometimes also have tendency to refuse to eat to develop into a serious reduction in weight that could cause danger to health. In fear of weight gain, they eat less and exercise more to become lacking of nutrition, complain much, get depressed, and become very sensitive. They lose confidence as well as avoiding to meet people. For the treatment of addephagia, first, regardless of hunger, they should regularly eat  a regular amount of food at regular times. Through the diet diary, they can control of daytime intake of food, and limiting of food in the house, overeating at night can be limited. Second, they should use medicine such as anti-depressants or appetite controllers. Overeating tends to be a nervous disease in many cases, so medicine and consultations with professionals can be help. Lastly, they are better to arrange mealtime appointments at public places. By reducing times alone, the secretive eating acts, which are one of the symptoms of the overeaing syndrome, can be reduced.

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Cross-stitch

One of my hobbies is crossing-stitch. It could make my mind calmly. So, I would tell you about how to cross-stitch. Crossing-stitch is a stitch in a form of a cross over a cloth to make a pattern, which is a very simple and easy thing that can easily be done by anyone. In order to do cross stitch, we need a cloth. Cross-stitch cloth is different with a normal cloth in that there is a distict cloth called ‘aida’ for cross-stitch. Second, we need a cross-stitch needle. This needle is also different with a normal needle as it’s length is short and the point is not sharp. Lastly, we need the cross stich threads. There are over hundreds cross-stitch threads which is different colors. For the time beginning, with just these three things would be enough to cross-stitch. Of course, it would be better to have a variety of tools.

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My favorite singer

I’m going to tell you about my favorite singer. My favorite singer is Sikyung Sung who is a ballad singer. He debuted with the song ‘Like the first time’ in 2001. I like his simple and clean appearance like a young noble. And his soft voice makes me love him and have came to be favor of his songs. His song with soft voice makes people be pathetic. Whenever I hear his song, I get pathetic feeling and remember the distant memories. Especially, I love his first album because there are many songs that touches my heart, and many lyrics that resemble my heart. Among the songs of Sikyung Sung, I like the most 3 songs of ‘road to me’, ‘like the first time’ and ‘you were a deep impression’ There are a lot of reasons why I like him, but I’m talking about a few among some of them. He sings his songs very well according to the situations, and he is wonderful in the live concerts. And I don’t become tired of his songs because the words of songs touches my heart. As one of fans of Sikyung Sung, I will continue to cheer him, watch over him, and love his music.

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Gord’s teaching

Now, I am going to talk about Gord’s teaching style. We wrote and are writing a lot of writings in his class. He likes interesting writings very much, and doesn’t like boring things. He considers that a short writing which is interesting is better than just long writihng. He usually says, “Quantity is not quality.” I agree with his thinking. One of the important teachings in Gord’s class is ’Blog’. We write down our writing on the blog. It is very useful for us because we can see other persons writing as well as their opinions. We can also write our comments under their texts. It can be improved our writing skills I think. 

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Part time job

A lot of students usually do part-time job. Is it good for us or not? For the advantages of working part time, since we earns money,  we will realize that earning money is difficult. And as the money was earned with difficulty, we think that we should save the money. And in working part time, we will be able to make human relationship with many people and can utilize the spare time.   But for disadvantages, it will impact one negatively in reduction of time for self-development and personal hobby life, plus for a studying student, it tends to lower the studying efficiency. However, in my thoughts, trying to work in a part time job is not bad. That is why through working part time job, we can build up new experiences which have not been attempted before and one will be able to earn some money.

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Meaning of color

 We can see easily that each color represent some meanings. Black is associated with death and is worn at funerals. Invitations to formal events, men should wear a dinner jacket and black bow tie. White is the color of innocence and is usually worn by a bride at her wedding. Baby girls traditionally wear pink, while boys are dressed in baby blue. Men rarely wear pink clothes except as fashion items, whereas women regularly wear blue. The color red, suggesting heat or fire, is associated with anger. A person may see red, or lose their temper. Red is also associated with love, and red roses are given to lovers. People go as “red as a beet” when they are embarrassed. Blue suggests unhappiness, and somebody who is sad may be feeling blue, or have the blues. But if they are in a blue funk they are in a state of terror or panic. A person who is green is very innocent about the world. Green also represents jealousy, and a person turns green with envy. Jealousy itself is called ‘the green-eyed monster’ .

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