Do you know Ubuntu can show off a hybrid hand set?

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In the BBC News article " MWC 2016: Ubuntu shows off a hybrid handset"(2016), it tell us the software-makers of Ubuntu have demonstrated Linux-base Operating system(OS) loaded onto an Samsung Galaxy hanset  for the smart-phone operating system (mobile OS) turning into desktop PC OS at Mobile World Congress(MWC) 2016. However, there is not available for consumers to buy a phone or PC hybrid running Ubuntu with the necessary monitor port.

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My Yes/No question is:
Do you know Ubuntu can  show off a hybrid hand set?

My answer is:

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Reference

MWC 2016: Ubuntu shows off a hybrid handset (2016, February 25). BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35655342 

Does a ban on swearing violate human rights?

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In "Swearing ban: Is it against your human rights?" we are told that there has been disagreement from those worried that it violates the right to freedom of speech in response to a recent English city council's decision to ban "'foul and abusive' language" in public areas (2016). According to the article, Salford City Council has legally banned swearing using a Public Space Protection Order in order to "improve quality of life" for residents of the area, but Rosie Brighouse of a civil rights group argues that "Without the freedom to offend, real freedom of expression cannot exist."

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My Yes/No question is:
Does a ban on swearing violate human rights?

My answer is:
Yes, banning offensive language violates the right to free speech. Although their intentions might be good, the actions of the city council are immoral, and good intentions cannot make a wrong action into a right one. I greatly dislike foul language, and almost never use it: when extremely angry once or twice a year, something might slip out (most often a strong, loud "Shit!"), but the words that the city council has failed to spell out as banned are not words I normally use. Most of my friends use such language more than I do, although not a lot. I guess the people I know who swear the most are couple of my brothers and sisters and my mother (whom I will not quote), who sometimes resorts to foul language to express her feelings about topics that excite her. But although I dislike it, I don't think my dislike is a good reason to stop others expressing themselves in the language that works for them. And I have to admit that there is no failure to communicate at least her emotions on my mother's part, or my other nearest and dearests who go in for that sort of thing.

Of course, in some contexts, such language is not appropriate, and I have no problem with private bodies banning such language. I might ask people not to do it in my home, just as I tell people that they can't smoke in my home, but it's not the government's business to be limiting what people say, even if what is being said is worthless filth. I also find the expression of many ideas offensive, but thankfully today most societies agree that it's not acceptable to censor or ban religious speech, or anti-religious speech, although there remain some obvious exceptions to this such as the despotic governments of Saudi Arabia, who still torture or imprison citizens as Christian nations used to for questioning the popular religion.

And while my AEP classes sometimes read novels that use swearing, for example John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, which some misguided Americans regularly want to ban from schools and libraries because of the language (Lea, 2015; American Library Association, n.d.), I would probably suggest some rewriting if it appeared in piece of academic work without a relevant reason. In fact, since we are here to study and practice academic means of communication, I would feel comfortable banning swearing except where an academic purpose required it.

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References

American Library Association. (n.d.). Banned & Challenged Classics. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics

Lea, R. (2015, May 7). Idaho parents push for schools to ban Of Mice and Men for its 'profanities'. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/07/idaho-parents-profane-of-mice-and-men-banned-schools-john-steinbeck

Swearing ban: Is it against your human rights? (2016, March 3). BBC newsbeat. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35715756/swearing-ban-is-it-against-your-human-rights 

Will new types of Barbie become as popular as the original one?

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In BBC News Magazine "How does 'Curvy Barbie' compare with an average woman?" (2016),Mattel has been release three new types of Barbie - curvy, petite and tall.The latest They've now gone on sale in UK.Mattel says according to “play scale” Curvy Barbie is taller than the average UK woman at 5ft 3in and slightly more than the average US woman at just under 5ft 4in. She is far slimmer than the average 16-24-year-old woman in the UK.Curvy Barbie is closer to reality while other Barbies are rarely found in reality.

"The introduction of a new range of Barbies is a welcome move, and a positive step towards improving diversity of toys," says Jemima Olchawski, of the Fawcett Society.

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My Yes/No question is:

Will new types of Barbie become as popular as the original one?

My answer is:

No, new types of Barbie won’t become as popular as the original one. In my opinion Barbie is a doll. It doesn’t have to be too realistic. Children buy a doll because of its beauty, cuteness and function. The shape of Barbie doesn’t matter to children but since those three new types of Barbie doll are on sale. The customer can clearly see the difference between Curvy Barbie and the original one. They would say the Curvy Barbie fat. Mostly girl want to be slim, that’s why they see Barbie doll and aim to be like her. I understand that Curvy Barbie and the other two were created to begin various kind of doll so that customer will have more choice to enjoy their doll. However Petite and Tall Barbie are still imagination’s doll shape, with her proportion it’s possible to imagine her having difficulty standing upright but it’s beautiful. 

  

Since Barbie doll have various shape then the clothes for each type of doll would not fit perfect with the doll. This will affect her beauty because some suit would be too big for Petite but too small for Curvy or too short for tall. Children might have to buy the specific cloth for each doll which is expensive. If I were a customer I would buy an original Barbie shape so that I can spend more on clothes.

The Barbie’s shape also affects other toy that relate to Barbie. For example, a Barbie house which was designed for normal Barbie. When the shape of Barbie is not fit to the Barbie’s option, the amusement decrease.

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Reference

Bate, C.(2016, March 3).How does 'Curvy Barbie' compare with an average woman?. BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35670446 

Do you think grammar for everyday living conversation is necessary?

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In “Think you’s good at grammar? Try my seven golden rules” from the Guardian, Jeremy Butterfield tells about the tricky of english grammar from a lot of exceptions which depend on popular usage, varied regions and sometimes preferences, for example, some editor counts the word “healthy” food as wrong grammar and use “healthful” food for instance.

Yippee (or groan)! It’s National Grammar Day again. Photograph: Lucien Aigner/Corbis

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My Yes/No question is:
Do you think grammar for everyday living conversation is necessary?

My answer is:

Yes, I think using grammar appropriately can decrease some confusion. English has more definitely telling about time and person compared to many oriental languages which are categorized to different family of language. This specialty causes a lot of difficulty to many english learner, nevertheless, I don’t think grammar lesson should be regarded as the first priority in English learning. For example, most of Thai student has spent decade for English classes, which most of them is grammar lessons, still they cannot use English for everyday living.

Back to the main purpose of language, it is to communicate to other people, so how can a good class make you frightened or feeling guilty for mistake rather than the confidence of experience after trial and error? In our class, Peter point out two writing exercises in our textbook which are response writing and academic writing. Some might think the second one is more important , in contrast, I value the response writing more. This doesn’t mean organisation is easy for me but the hard time in writing is getting idea which response writing invite us to become more provocative and rethink about why we do writing. For me, the reason is to share the idea to the rest of the world.

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Reference

Butterfield, J. (2016, March 4). Think you’s good at grammar? Try my seven golden rules. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/04/national-grammar-day-rules

Should we count on virtual reality technology?

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In "Virtual therapy ‘helps with depression’, researchers say", Dominic Howell (2016) talks about the promising method for treating those who are suffered from mental disorders, especially for patient with anxiety and depression. This novel therapy is associated with the use of virtual reality technology through an embodiment technique with a specially designed headset. Its concept is that patients firstly act as therapists to help console a small crying child by saying compassionate phrases. Then, they are asked to change the new headset to experience the avatar of the child instead, playing a role of patients. Afterwards, they are in a reversed situation and hear their same phrases spoken back. Prof. Brewin, one of the main researchers of the new treatment, said that "In this study, by comforting the child and then hearing their own words back, patients are indirectly giving themselves compassion.The aim was to teach patients to be more compassionate towards themselves and less self-critical."

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My Yes/No question is:
Should we count on virtual reality technology?

My answer is:
Yes, we should. There are many successful applications regarding current virtual reality technology supporting my answer. Similarly, big technology companies like Google, Samsung, Facebook etc. are keen on developing and doing in this business. Its application seems board. At least, the new therapy I posted is somewhat helpful in terms of medical science. Another clear example is to be applied as training tools—Driving or Aviation simulators—that help driver and pilot experience the similar situation to real conditions as practices, which can results in more safety and less expense. Apart from those applications, we also see modern games that are controlled and played in the virtual world. This makes players feel more emotional and related to events in games. Moreover, educational development tends to be toward computer-aided learning by virtual reality technology so that students can learn conveniently and efficiently.

In the future, I believe this technology will be applied extensively and continuously due to several advantages. I have heard from my friends that e-commerce or the similar businesses are being developed toward more advanced progress. They intend to use virtual glasses as one of methods for shopping at home. When wearing the glasses, customers do not have to go to supermarkets or department stores because they can see, select and buy product as if they were shopping at the real places. They will be able to save time from traffic jam or save money from travelling cost. That would be amazing technology for many people including me. Perhaps, virtual glasses will help us survey and travel under sea or even space. This would be useful for those who are handicapped and are not comfortable to walk or move since they possibly travel through their virtual glasses. I am looking forward to seeing its creative applications for better lifestyle soon.

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Reference

Howell, D. (2016, February 15). Virtual therapy 'helps with depression', researchers say. BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35558447

Can the domino’s pizza market against to be a well-known brand for Thai people?

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According to “Domino's Pizza profits boosted by mobile app” (2016), the domino’s pizza company got the growth of orders on online sales: the mobile app, in last year. They identify a successful key with two things are convenience and online; chief executive David Wild told us. “…that means food that's delivered to their home, … food that can be ordered online”.

The BBC News article says that “E-commerce sales now account for 77.7% of all UK deliveries and 48.6% of online sales are made using its app”.

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My Yes/No question is:
Can the domino’s pizza market against to be a well-known brand for Thai people?



My answer is:

No, the domino’s pizza cannot market against to be a well-known brand for Thai people. (at this period). From my point of view, it has various limitation to expand franchise in Thailand. Domino's pizza is American pizza, they have reputed delivery on time, that's good. But not for Thai people because by the nature of Thai people more like to cook, eat in their house or go outside to restaurant or shopping mall. Contrast with UK people who love to order pizza or fast food on online channel. Moreover, taste of Thailand is herbs, not much rich while Domino's pizza cannot get exactly answer in this, so it is a weak point. For example, from my experience, Pizza's company has Tomyumkung flavor in the menus, and it is the favorite one flavor of Thai people cause this taste is a regional cuisine.

According to the reality, Domino's pizza has less on marketing: advertisement, to promote their brand in Thailand, and they also have a few shop where like a rare item to find (hard to reach).

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Reference

Domino's Pizza profits boosted by mobile app. (2016, March 3). BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35714501

Will Nok Air lose their customers to other airlines?

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In Bangkok post article "Nok Air routinely cancels 61 flights" (2016), Amornrat talks about cancellation flight of Nok Air that "Nok Air cancelled 34 domestic flights from Don Mueang and 27 inbound flights on Friday...which affected many thousands of travelers."

Nowadays, Nok Air is facing a problem with pilot shortage because they want to improve pilot standards which let Nok Air have to cancel flight and use some flights arranged of partner airlines which are Thai Lion Air and Thai Smile to help them operate.

By the way, Nok Air CEO Patee says about this problem that "Nok Air would not cancel more flights than earlier announced and that its problems would be solved in the near future."

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My Yes/No question is:
Will Nok Air lose their customers to other airlines?

My answer is:
Yes, they will. I think that If Nok Air don't solve this problem immediately. They will be lost customer to other airlines forever.

As far as I know, Nok Air has two competitive advantages which are low-cost and the most traveling route in Thailand. If Nok Air drop their route to equal to other airlines, Customer will choose to travel other airline such as Lion Air which has equal price as Nok Air.

One of my friend is an example, he bought a ticket with Nok Air by having a plan to travel on this April. Unfortunately after that one month, his flight was cancelled because of Nok Air don't have enough pilot. This situation forces him to buy another ticker which is more expensive than the old ticket from other airlines and make him dissatisfy with Nok Air very much.

That's why, I think that If Nok Air don't have emergency plan to manage with this problem, In the long term they will lose both reputation and customer to other airlines forever.

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Reference

Mahitthirook, A. (2016, March 4). Nok Air routinely cancels 61 flights. Bangkok post. Retrived from http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/886508/nok-air-routinely-cancels-61-flights

Should the government accept migrants from other countries?

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In the BBC News article "EU's Tusk warns illegal economic migrants: Do not come here" (2016), we are told that European Union (EU) in finding solution to reduce the number of influx illegal migrants.  Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, discourages all potential illegal migrants from entering Greece as there are no opportunities in this country.

According to the BBC News report, The International Organization for Migration (IMO) states that more than hundred thousand migrants reached Europe by sea in 2016. €700 millions are provided by the European Commission to tackle this crisis.

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My Yes/No question is:
Should the government accept migrants from other countries?

My answer is:
Yes, the government should accept migrants to a certain extent based on economic and social stability of the country. People from countries like Syria are starving and having poor living conditions due to civil war. I feel a strong sense of empathy as to witness the innocent been caught up in this political crisis of their own country. These people just want a new life - wanting a new good headstart to build up their family. Even now, there are still thousands of refugees waiting to enter countries in Europe, waiting on their boats and starving to death. We are fortunate enough that we have opportunities to live in a house and enjoy air conditioners at night. We are auspicious enough that we were born in such a peaceful country (even though it's not). We are lucky enough that we have proper diet to eat every single meal. Learn to appreciate what we have, not what we don't have. Their lives are more miserable than us.

However, we cannot always bias. Sometimes, countries cannot just simply accept the migrants blindly. Take for example, Greece is still facing economic crisis in which its own people are now having lower standard of lives. If more migrants are coming into such country, of course, more problems occur.  Not only that, on the 14 November 2015, a tragic incident occurred in the middle of Paris caused by Syrian refugees. More than hundred people died and plenty injured. Imagine if we are one of the victims, what would we feel about this tragedy? Happy and Exciting? This is why the government take these problems into consideration before accepting more migrants.

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EU's Tusk warns illegal economic migrants: Do not come here. (2016, March 3). BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35714087

Is it moral to use prison to punish people?

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According to "Fire kills 16 inmates during prison protest in Guyana" (2016),  prisoners who set fire to their beds after a police raid for banned personal property caused a fire that killed at least 16 of the prisoners being held in prison in capital city of the South American country Guyana. The BBC News article says that the prisoners "were protesting about overcrowding and delays for prisoners awaiting trial."

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My Yes/No question is:
Is it moral to use prison to punish people?

My answer is:
No, but it is morally OK to use prison for other reasons. Because people who commit crimes could not have done otherwise, it seems to me morally wrong to punish them. We do not, after all, punish 10 day old babies who knock an expensive glass off the table and smash it. Nor do we punish people who, for example, have a brain disease or psychological disorder that makes them kill people. What we do do in such cases is perhaps imprison them in a psychiatric hospital so that they are no longer a risk to other people. I think this needs to be applied generally. The only reason to lock people up in prison is because they are a likely threat to others in the future, not for anything they have already done in the past.

This might be the shortest blog post I've written this week. Actually, as I was having my morning coffee a bit late after a late night last night, I was browsing the news as usual, and I wanted to write one more example of a blog post responding to the news, but I didn't want to blog an article I thought that a student might want to use; this one seemed safe. I would normally skip over news from South America, but when I saw the title, the question immediately came to mind. I liked the question because it is, I hope, controversial, And controversial is good: it gives us something to disagree about with reasons and arguments to be presented and answered in the following comments and replies. That was also something I had had in mind when I wrote the blog post yesterday arguing that all drugs should be legalized, and with which no one has yet disagreed!

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Reference

Fire kills 16 inmates during prison protest in Guyana. (2016, March 4). BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35722258

Should the law treat alcohol like other drugs such as heroin, yaa baa, cocaine and marijuana?

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Dopamine is involved in
the brain's reward system.

In "Here's What Happens To Alcoholics’ Brains When They Quit Drinking," Ben Taub (2016) discusses recent research that helps us understand why the drug alcohol is so highly addictive. Taub says that scientists examined the brains of dead alcohol addicts and the brains of living rats that had been addicted to alcohol to see what the levels of dopamine were and how many receptors there were for this chemical in the brain that strongly affects our feelings of pleasure. According to Taub, the scientists that discovered new ways in which alcohol damages the dopamine system that contribute to psychological cravings that characterize alcohol addiction.

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My Yes/No question is:
Should the law treat alcohol like other drugs such as heroin, yaa baa, cocaine and marijuana??

My answer is:
Yes, alcohol dealing and use should be treated like the use and dealing of any other addictive drug. Current drug laws in many countries, including Australia and Thailand along with the US, the UK and many others, are irrational, immoral and unjust. We know that alcohol is a drug of addiction just like things such as heroin, cocaine, yaa baa and marijuana. The evidence shows that alcohol is at least as harmful both to the drug users and to society as many of the illegal drugs, so there is no good reason why alcohol should be treated differently. At the moment, these laws encourage people, especially young people who can think, to disrespect the law. Why, after all, would they respect something is is clearly unjust and against reason? Such laws, do not deserve respect. And this undermining of the law is bad for society.

Worse, current drug laws that criminalize personal decisions of adults to use drugs such as marijuana and yaa baa only worsen the harms that those drugs cause society. When popular recreational drugs are made illegal, people naturally still want them, which leads to more corruption, more crime and waste of police resources. Instead of investigating rape, murder and theft, police are wasting time and money chasing after decent adults who are harming no one when they normally use heroin, marijuana or other drugs. There are only two groups in Australian society, Thai society or any other society that benefit from laws that criminalize activities that many decent citizens want to enjoy: corrupt officials and mafia scum. I don't think it's sensible, or moral, to keep encouraging an actively supporting these two groups whilst actively harming many decent citizens by giving them and their children criminal records for no just reason.

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Reference

Taub, B. (2016, March 3). Here's What Happens To Alcoholics’ Brains When They Quit Drinking. IFL Science. Retrieved from http://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-happens-alcoholics-brains-when-they-quit-drinking

Dream in Ploy's culture

A famous dream in my culture that I've heard a lot is a prediction dream.My mom tells me that if you dream about a snake,you'll find your lover.My grands also tell me that if you see numbers in your dream you have to remember it and buy a lottery with the numbers you saw.If you've got a nightmare before your special event for example a wedding or having a test.It means bad luck .This might affect your mind so people would feel better to postpone their event or go to the temple to exorcise those bad luck.
There is now Thai series about dream.The story is about a girl dreams that always comes true so she follow her dreams

Dreams in Feem's culture

Dreams in my culture? Personally, I interpret dream as a state of mind caused by the process of my brain during sleeping. That means what I dream is what I significantly wish in my mind or what I have experienced in the past, just once or several time but related to my feeling or mind. I view that dream can also be anything which our brain and its cells try to make it happen when we are sleeping. So, it's not a miracle story or omen, but it's what happened in our conscious or conscious mind. What'more, dream is also regarded as one's future goal(s) which we want to achieve. However, in my culture, many people tend to be believe that dream is the state that tells us what will happened in the future or even the state that those who already died can contact and meet us in another world. That's why someone think that dream is the sign of warning or fortune that we might experience soon.

Dreams in Chin's culture.

Depends on location different poeple have different dreams in our culture of our country. But anyone dreams about the  bright future,how to find the way to have a good life. For some of people it's related on proper education,for another ones to find the appropriate job to earn enough money. oSome people,who stay in the village dreaming about big farm. Strudents try to study and apply to universsities aborad and work abroad ,beacsue of offering high salary by internaqtional companies.

Dreams in Earlgray's culture

In the Thailand culture, there involves religions, monarchy, and dreams. Thais dream to be rich people or successful people in jobs and family etc. Some Thais believe unbelievable things because of dream. they think that those thing can help them to lead to their dreams. In the contrast, I grew up in the difference culture that involves the science facts

Dreams in Jom's culture

In my dreams culture, I have many belief about why people have to dream. As one of my thought, dreams is organized by our real experience though it has a lone term or just it happened, our mind will remember all of situation including a action, a feeling and a responding during at that time. dreaming is the one way to relaxed of our temperament both good dream and bad dream, so it can know what your the true feeling by generate the dreams story.

Dream in Non's culture

Dreams are things that fulfilled our lives with colour. My life would be rather dull without dream. In Thailand, many people have superstitious beliefs about dream. This means that each dream has its own meaning. However, to me, dreams are not always related to the reality - they are what we think, they are what we worry about.My friends always dream that he became the strongest man on Earth but in fact, he is just a mediocre who cannot even lift a weight properly in a gym.

I believe having good dream means having healthy lifestyle without any stress as it tells that we have a good state of mind. Not only that, nowadays we neglect the importance of dream and this will affect our circadian pattern while we sleep. Nightmare could wake us up in the middle of the night while good dreams allow us to sleep efficiently.

Dream in Ae's culture

Nowsaday, many people like to talk about dream. what's dream importance? I think that dream can fulful your hope and can be energy for you to do many activities. Many people have a dream which is the same as me. Personally, I dream to have my own business which I can do at home and live with my family while doing a business. I have a couple ways to reach my dream which is wait, learn things which is relate to my dream and try my best to follow it. One of my friens is an example, he dream to have a house for his family. His dream seem to be impossible for a man who is only 23 year-old and don't have a job. However, he stick with his dream and do every job to earn enough money to buy a house. Finall, his dream come true. I hope that this will be an example for someone who is hopeless with your dream.  

Dreams in Cheese's culture

     I grew up in a quite good circumstance of nature.  I played around the river and mountains, though now the places have totally changed to a modernized city.  My dream is to live in the nature simply appreciating the nature; getting up early with sun's rising, cleaning house for my good feeling, eating less

Dreams in Tung's culture

As dreams are a part of humans' life, people found some activities or beliefs dealing with dreams. Activities vary on the person's opinion and beliefs on dreams. As if they believe that dreams can actually affect people's lives, they will be strict in doing some ritual activities that might deal with spirits and super natural things. The activities could be a forecast from what is seen in the dream, the ritual that follows the beliefs about the dreams. My only example that I can think of right now is the broken tooth's dream, which is forecast that the person would lose someone he/she knows. The followup activities may be those used for cleaning the karma or bad dreams or maybe to make the dream fails. Also whether you believe in what other people say or not, there might be some people that would be really disturbed by your dreams and would beg you to do what they believe needed to be done.

Dreams in Union's culture

My country's culture about dream would have no meaning at all, if there is no lottery! Since I was a little child, I had heard about a lot of people win the lottery from buying the number as a result of dream interpretation. That's the most beneficial from Thai culture because you can even interpret your nightmare into money! If you have a good memory, you can remember your dream. Never keep to yourself. Find the good interpreter who can transform your vivid dream into 2 or 3 digit number. No matter what your story is. You see the gecko. Your husband cheat on you in your dream. Or you eat the real shit. Don't be hesitate to tell them. The good interpreter can make it. If finding "the one" is too difficult, the world-class leading technology can help you. Google it. There are tons of entries in the search engine that some who have had the same dream as you has shown before in the cyberspace. Let's make the money from your lively dream no matter good or bad. Bravo Thai culture!

Dreams in Peter's culture

In Australia I don't think that dreams are very important, at least not to me. But in Western culture there are some very famous dreams. An obvious source is the Christian religion: in the Bible, people often have dreams. For example, Joseph went to Egypt after his brothers sent him away from home instead of killing him. In Egypt he became famous as an interpreter of dreams. One day, the Egyptian pharaoh had strange dream. He dreamed of seven fat cows being eaten be seven skinny cows. Joseph interpreted this dream to mean that Egypt would have seven years of excellent harvests and then seven years of very bad harvests. Pharaoh acted on this dream and saved his country from disaster. This led to Joseph bringing his people, the ancient Jews, to Egypt, where the Bible tells us that they were later enslaved until they used terrorist tactics, in fact their god Yahweh, used terrorism, to escape from Egypt.

Another important use of dreams is in Freud's version of psychotherapy. Freud also taught that dreams should be interpreted, although not to tell the future. 

I think both uses of dreams are pretty silly: there is no good evidence I know of to think that dreams can predict the future, nor that they tell us much about deep psychological drives. But dreams can be inspiring. For example, Kekule had a very famous dream that led him to the discovery of the benzene ring, and other scientific or technological advances had been made in dreams. It appears that while we are sleeping, the brain is still hard at work, and sometimes it produces something amazing for us without us knowing what it has been working on.

I think that there probably are many people in Australia who do think dreams tell them about the future or themselves, but I think they are wrong. However, people in Australia also speak of having dreams as in plans, hopes, high aspirations, and these are very real. In the US, for example, Martin Luther King is famous for his "I have a dream" speech in which he describes a United States where people are not racist - sadly, that dream has not yet come true, and for many African Americans, daily life remains a night mare.