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Blog 3: Pop Culture Influences

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          For this blog, I chose Anime as a cultural artifact to focus on. Anime is really a significant part of Japanese culture, and I can confidently guarantee that all Japanese people have watched or read at least one Anime if they are born in Japan. I used to say that I was not a big fan of Anime since I couldn’t sit and read a comic book for a long time, or I couldn’t simply wait for next episode to come out. I rather play outside until the sun goes down, but at the same time, there are children like my sisters and some of my friends, they are obsessed with it. On the days those comic books were released, they rushed home or a convenience store to read if their parents forgot to get one for them. However, when we think about it, not all children like to read as I know for sure. Here, I would like to focus on Anime on the TV.           On every morning before school as well as after school, there is always at least one Anime show o...
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Blog 2: Gender in Specific Contexts -"The Devil Wears Prada"

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Prompt 1 I would like to analyze one of my favorite movies of all time, “The Devil Wears Prada.” Almost all of you, especially women have probably watched the movie at least once because I believe the movie is so-called  “a chick flix.” Briefly, the story draws the success of a fresh college graduate named Andy to become a woman and to pursue her career under the evilest successful editor/boss of Runway, Miranda and at the end, Andy finds what she truly needs. Throughout the movie, it shows her struggles for relationships with her boyfriend, friends, and job. The cultural artifact obviously focuses on women. I chose this movie because I simply loved the movie and dreamed about working in a big city just like Andy. I used to listen to the featured song in the movie, “Suddenly I See” in the morning to motivate myself and changed my ringtone to Andy’s ringtone of Miranda. That’s how much I was into the movie! Prompt 2 Who created this message? The s...
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Blog 1: Gender - a School Bag

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Prompt 1: Every year around when cherry blossoms start blooming, a new school year starts in Japan, and there is a lot of ads about school supplies. Almost all elementary schools in Japan require their students to use a certain school bag called “Randoseru”, and I remember myself at the age of six being so excited to use the bag like my older sister. Here, I am not picking a certain advertisement or commercial, but instead, I am going to focus on the system of gender binary at an early age in a different culture. The link below is one of the advertisements from a well-known company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gIhsX0nreo Prompt 2: I’ve been observing the increase in the color variety of the bag unlike when I was in an elementary. It was usually and almost always a red bag for girls, and a black bag for boys based on an assigned gender at birth. Although new students nowadays can choose a color from a lot of choices, there is the pattern that gender binary defines colors int...
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