Problems of Hong Kong Education System

After attending the last 2 lessons of Japanese culture, I have learnt that Japanese students can only enjoy 9 years education for free, which is less than

Survey Project Reflection*

In this project, our topic was "Travelling Habits of Japanese". Through this project, we would like to know more about the cultural values between Hong Kong people and native Japanese. Although the topic seemed to be very easy, I did find difficulties to gather data from various aspects.

For the Japanese culture, it appeared to be quite similar to Eastern values in general. But when it comes to a choice between travelling within Japan or overseas, more interviewees preferred travelling within Japan. It shows that the Japanese love their country very much, even when it comes to spending money within their country to boost up their economy.

For the research method, I have learnt to design a set of effective survey questions. This is not an easy job since there must be some blind spots when we were designing. If we could ask for more opinions from teachers and friends, this would not be a problem. Also, we had to ask native Japanese to help in this survey through friends and online platforms. While asking them, we also categorized their age group to obtain opinions from people with different values.

If I could make changes to this project in the future, I would modify the questions with wider choices and open questions to further investigate the values of Japanese. I would also add questions asking the interviewees' career and their salaries as they are big variables to other answers.

It is such a pity that the Japan earthquake happened within our research period. Before the tragedy, I could still get some responses from native Japanese. However, after the tragedy, I felt sorry for their experience and would not like to interrupt to ask them. I would suggest a longer period of time for this research so that we can have more time to gather a larger sampling group and the results we obtain would reflect more of the reality.

If it is possible, I hope to have some project activities which involve more participation in experiencing the Japanese cultures such as "origami", "chadou(茶道)" or wearing "yukata". These activities can show the conscientiousness of Japanese. I think these activities will be fun for students to enjoy while they are learning.

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Thoughts towards the Survey Projects ①

Group 1 : Survey about Japanese Animation and Comics
                 (アンナ、静、ナッツ)

The presentation was very well-prepared and detailed in the analysis part. To get a further culture analysis, it's important to make some comparison between the foreign thoughts and our values. As an outsider, we can only receive messages of how good the Japanese anime and comics, maybe because those messages were only part of the whole picture. The Japanese people do have a neutral view on their Anime&Comics (AC) Culture, while we, Hong Kong people who are very interested in it, mostly possess a very positive thinking on this culture. I found it is quite interesting that the native Japanese people thought "Otaku" is no good to future of children, since Hong Kong AC lovers won't think it's a problem at all.


Group 2 : Perception of the Japanese people towards Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths
                 (Isolde, Nicole, Peggy, Sing)

The issue about the ordinance has been controversial among many countries and regions because people are concerned about the healthy MENTAL development of youths. The survey's aim is a rather serious topic. I really appreciate the preparation they have done on the topic research and the power point slides. I'm also very interested in how the Japanese youths think about this issue which is aiming at them and may affect their entertainment on AC aspect. It's a pity that the interviewees were not in their target group, while most of them do not really know about the ordinance issue. The result from the sampling group may not be truly reflecting how the native Japanese views on such a sudden change. I feel that appropriate constriction on these indecent materials should be adapted but at the same time, parents guidance is much more important to help youths develop a mentally healthy life.


Group 3 : How do Japanese feel about Hong Kong?
                 (ゆず、ゆき、エミー)

This is really an interesting topic because we can know how the foreign people think about Hong Kong. The presentation skills of this group was really fascinating. Many Hong Kong people may think it's strange that the Japanese people will think of Jackie Chan when they mention Hong Kong. However, I don't feel the same way. Since I knew about this point when I watched a Japanese cartoon featuring a character who looked like the real Jackie Chan and was good at martial arts. The character was even named as "Jackie". Therefore, we can see how influential is Jackie Chan to the foreign countries. :D