#3-14 Before I Die, I Want to＿＿＿＿＿.

http://www.ted.com/talks/candy_chang_before_i_die_i_want_to.html

 


 Talking about this video, I thought this project is pretty interesting!! I'd like to know what my friends, family or the other people are thinking about this topic. There are so many different answers for it. The big chalkborad reminds of...the opening of The Simpsons; what would Bart write on it? ...Anyways, my favorite one was, "before I die, I want to be tried for piracy."

 Before I die, I want to meet my friends or some people who is important to me and talk with them or tell them thank you for make my life awesome. Those people are not only my friends back in school, but also my friends in Japan, around the world, my host family and so on; if I have enough time before I die. That has been always my answer to the question; "What would you do before you die?" Because I won't be able to see them again!! Even if I cannot meet them, I call them.
 In addition, I like something funny and love to laugh, so it's enough at least I can laugh and smile with my friends or loved one before I die.

#3-13 News Stories

http://www.ted.com/talks/kirk_citron_and_now_the_real_news.html

 I totally agree to what the speaker said; some news are more important than the others!!!
Lots of news, which were broadcasted in the past, are less important now. Not only the past news, but also some latest news are not so important.

 After I watched this video, I thought that the past news, which was important or popular when it occur, become a part of history although they would become less important.

#3-12 Mango Street; A Period of Rebellion

 First of all, my period of rebellion was when I was in elementary school. I used to be a good kid if I'm right. However, I behaved differently when I became 3rd grade. I believe I was relling against my teacher. I don't remember what I was rebelling for, but my class was disrupted somehow. Although I went to school, I had not study much and it caused some problems after.

 Secondly, I'd like to talk about my junior high and high school. Actually, I didn't have the period of rebellion, but some of the other students were rebelling against teachers―basically, they didn't follow the rules about personal appearance such as length of skirts, hairstyles, wearing make ups and so on. I didn't understand why they did such a thing. I didn't want to be scoled by teachers... oops, I remember one thing... I used to put rubber band bracelets, which is not allowed to put... It might be same as the other students... Why did I do it? I even do not remember... hahaha. I might be at a difficult age, I guess.

#3-11 Four Principles for The Open World

http://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_four_principles_for_the_open_world_1.html

 The Speaker, Don Tapscott, said the digital age generation (The Net Generation) is not afraid of the technology, just like he is not afraid of a fridge. It was quite funny. As he mentioned like that, I'm not afraid of using it and I'm using it almost everyday. On the other hand, my parents don't know how to use them... I'm afraid of that. But they seem like they don't have any problem about it.

 It might be different from what Tapscott was talking about medicine, but I use the Internet for Sharing, mostly. I become someone who share some ideas or information and I collect some information which someone share on the Internet. About the Transparency, I have to be careful about what I put on the Internet.

I agree that the Openness is a good thing unless every single person cares about what they spread through it, and also, everyone who receive the information have to be careful about misjudging from a wrong information.

#3-10 Endangered Cultures

http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html

 Since I'm a student of SIS(Student of International Studies) and its object is to develop students who actively involve in international business or society, I think globalized world is a good thing. We can learn a lot from the other countries, share the ideas and help each other. Also, the globalization make it possible to buy products from the other countries when it's needed, or to watch or listen to a live coverage.
 On the other hand,　I agree to Wade Davis's idea that we need to stop pushing traditional cultures out of their homelands. If one culture became same as the other, this world become boring and one country cannot learn about other things from other countries which they don't have. Also, the traditional cultures can be found when it's compared to the other cultures.
 Therefore, I think the globalized world is good although the different traditional cultures should be saved. Furthermore, there must be different cultures which could be difficult to be accepted to the other countries. For example, the bathing custom; even though I'm ok with taking a shower, I like to take a bath using bathtub especially in Winter. Another custom is food; I told my friend that some of my friends from foreign countries say that melon soda tastes like a medicine. Then he told me that Japanese people say that Root Beer tastes like a medicine (a compress?). I found it's interesting.
 

#3-9 Fitting In

I took a lecture called "Student guidance" last year and there was a lecture about bullying. The professor didn't talk about the character of the victim much, but talked about why people bully someone. There are two aspects. One is a revenge, and joking/prank is another. For the revenge, there are opinions like the victims is conceited,  a liar, move away from the other students and etc. For joking/prank, the victims are likely to be weak, slow in movement and etc. It was said that the weakness of the victims is the most powerful cause of bullying. In this case, the weakness means that the victims cannot defense themselves.

So, why the victims not fit in? There are lots of reasons for this and not only one reason, but in my opinion, one of the reasons is because the victim doesn't have similar interests to share with the other students. Even though I wasn't bullied or anything, I used to be the one who was kind of isolated from the other student. I don't know why that was happened. Maybe it happened because of environmental changing. I was playing dodge ball or tag with boys when I was in elementary school. Then, I went to girls' junior and junior high school. I didn't remember about much, but my mother told me that I usually didn't eat lunch at school and brought back the lunch box with full of food. I didn't like the lunch time. Students usually eat lunch with groups of people who are good friends. I talk to anyone, but I wasn't sure who to eat with, at that time. I was the weird one, I know. I don't know why I did that even now.
Also, I was interested in western musics or movies when I was in high school while lots of students were interested in and talked about TV dramas or some Japanese actors or actresses. In this case, I felt a bit lonely too.

However, I could survive because the other students didn't say to me that I was strange or something like that. Further more, I found someone else out of school who can talk about my hobbies and so on. 

In my opinion, ONE OF THE REASON why bullying widespread is the spread of cell phone. These days, even elementary school students have them. They can communicate through email even they don't meet and it cannot be seen by anyone if the parents didn't check. Therefore it can be difficult for teachers to control students' bullying problem. But, parents and teachers might be able to suggest an outlet for victims like another activities which one can enjoy or another community that one would fit in, although it could be difficult.

#3-8 Equality in The Home

 The system in Taiwan that wives can be paid for doing housework is not fascinating for me. It might be worth paying, but a housewife or househusband is not a maid. Also, I have to do my housework if I live by myself even it cannot be paid.
 Talking about my parents, my mother is a housewife and my father works. So, my mother does all of the housework. They never complain about this and I think it's successful system for them. However, my father cannot cook, clean and doesn't know how to use the waching machine. Therefore he always eats unhealthy meals and snacks when my mother is out of the home. I'm worried about it. Aditionally, my father didn't cooperate much in childcare and I usually go swimming, camping or skiing with my friend's family. Although I'm now grown up and I understand he was very busy with his work, I was so sad and I felt envy of my friend's family when I was in elementary school. If I had children, I don't want them to have a similar experience like me.
 How do I deal with the issues of houseworks? well, I do what I need to do. I want to be a good cook sometime, but I have almost no chace to cook since my mother always serves meals. However I'm sure I'll try to do anything when I have to. I don't want to eat or serve conveni-bento everyday and don't want to wear dirty clothes!!