For the duration of social studies we have been looking at different aspects of cultures. The most common culture we have been looking at is European cultures. The first culture my group looked at was: Russia, for the aspect of this culture we looked at compared to aspects from this country to New Zealand, first we compared Russia to Nz then we started to compare the aspects of these two countries. After this we started focusing on Asian cultures.
The country that I chose to focus on was Japan, for the aspect of this culture I chose to focus on drifting and samurai, these were both too main aspects of Japanese culture. Focusing on these aspects of this culture has taught me alot for example: I learnt that Japan seems like a quiet peaceful country but learning about drifting made me think that japan isn’t that much of a quiet, peaceful country at all because most people like drifting because the thrill of turning the car fully sideways. Also learning about samurai has taught me that most samurai used to think that the best way to regain honor when they were wounded in battle was to slice their stomach.
When I found out that samurai kill themselves to regain honor I thought this was pretty extreme.