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Choose one of these topics:
- a popular product in your country that comes from another country.
- one custom that is important in your culture
- one value that is important in your culture
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So many possible topics to choose from here.
ReplyDeleteSince it came up in the first half of our class, I'll write about the custom of students questioning teachers.
First, I don't mean students asking questions such as what time the excursion starts tomorrow or whether they can go to the toilet. I mean students disagreeing with what a teacher has said or asking the teacher to give some good support for something that they have said.
This is not only normal, but encouraged in the Australian education system. When I was in high school, I sometimes corrected mistakes that my teachers made in mathematics and science, and although they might not have loved this, it was not a problem. Of course, I had to give solid support for saying that the teacher had made a mistake. This is useful for everyone because we don't want mistaken ideas to go unquestioned - at best, that is confusing ,and the results can be far more serious.
In my history and English classes, there was a lot more argument: what reparations did we white Australians owe to the native people our recent ancestors had displaced? What was really the cause of the rebellion against the British governor Bligh in Sydney? These remain controversial issues, and arguing in class was very helpful for both checking our understanding and practising critical thinking and use or evidence to support an opinion. It also helped us to learn to accept uncertainty - and to realise that often there were no easy, final answers that never changed merely because someone said so.
At university, I had much more substantial disagreements with some of professors, especially in my major. Even studying logic and number theory (the philosophy thereof) , we had some major disagreements, but again, that reflects the healthy reality that these issues are extremely complex and that other points of view do need to be taken into account if we are to have a deep understanding of an issue.
One value that is important in your culture is collectivism. The Thai society is based on the relatives community, which means the social interaction is very valued and very close, so you don't need to respect anyone's decision. There is very few space for individual to make their own decision without being judged, since the gozziping is also a kind of legitimated socialization. For an example, The partner you choose to marry with, the faculty or university you choose to study in or How often do you go to the temple or join in a social event. All of these can be used to judge how good you are and make their own way to communicate or treat you to maintain their own value of society. That's how we live in this country.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to talk about a popular product from the past 10 years ago to the present which sells a richy-smell coffee, it 's Starbucks.
ReplyDeleteStarbucks is an global enterprise which originally comes from Seattle in America. I think the company seized the branches to Thailand for a few decades in Thailand, but it's a very popular and successful coffee brand in the country.
One thing other than popularity of Starbucks is that the company created one custom to Thais' people nowadays interestingly, That is the brand loyalty; to illustrate, it's undeniable to believe that the Thais, especially in Bangkok buy a cup of Starbucks coffee and think that it's a luxury one or a value one for taking some photos and posting on their social medias. So, in my opinion, it's one general belief which originated not over 10 years ago and still predictably remains popular as long for Starbucks running business in Thailand because of its company's policy as well.
Currently, green tea, an edible product which ordinarily comes from Japan, is very popular in Thailand. No matter where we go to buy something to eat or drink, some products include green tea as a main or part of their ingredients. The obvious example of the product is green tea beverage like Oishi, Ichitan. Now, we can see that competition in this kind of business is quite intensive. There are a lot of promotion, ads and lucky draw via SMS which they applied to promote their products and increase their sale volumes. Yet, people seems not to realize that drinking them too much could affect their health as a result of high quantity of sugar added to make them have better taste. This could lead to suffer from diabetes. Perhaps, such marketing strategies seem to dominate customers effectively.
ReplyDeleteMatcha (green tea) products, which are a trend from Japan is really popular in Thailand. I see a lot of products have Matcha as their ingredients including beverage - hot green tea, Matcha milk blend - sweet - cookie, cake, doughnut - and also sanitary!
ReplyDeleteI am also a Matcha customer (but not follow the fashion, I love it before Matcha popular in Thailand). This is good for me to easier get the products (I prefer only food and beverage, not addicted to prefer the stuffs); however, I curious that some people just want to follow the trend by using such green tea things because of marketing advertisement.
a popular product in Thailand that comes from another country.
ReplyDeletenowadays, there are many products which are import from their country. The first thing that comes up to my mind is "cosmetic". there are many brands and import from Japan, Korea and western countries. For example, I use Shiseido which is Japan cosmetic brand. I think every people always use cosmetic which import from another country because actually, I've just seen a few cosmetic brands which produces in Thailand, and I think there are just a few adverts on TV and I am not sure but maybe a few people use them, so i dont they are good or bad.
One custom that is important in my culture is stand up respect to the king when you go to the theater. This is very strong custom in our culture because our king is the center of country. Our king has done a lot of development for poor people so longtime; in behalf of king he does have to work hard like that the answer is exactly not necessary to do but he has done since he has been a king.This has only one reason he gives himself for people Thailand is his homeland and people are their member of his homeland .He has duty to takecare everywhere.
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