In the Korean drama, Goblin, Eun Tak makes seaweed soup for breakfast as an indirect way to celebrate her birthday (because her family doesn’t care). This made me wonder is seaweed soup synonymous with the Korean birthday? How are birthdays celebrated in Korea? Two Birthdays Korean are either lucky or easily confused, but either way … [Read more…]
India has always been a fascination to me. It is such a huge country with so many layers to it. There are many different cultures and customs. I think that’s what motivated me to write about a bollywood movie. I love bollywood (although I haven’t watched any recent ones). Anyways my learning about culture series … [Read more…]
The real reason I started to watch Rita was because it was about a teacher in Denmark. I’m curious about schools in different countries. For some reason the Scandinavian countries get a lot of media involving their education. I wanted to see the differences there are between Danish and American schools. This article is about … [Read more…]
In the first season of the Danish drama Rita, there were quite a few cultural things mentioned and I was excited to research them, but after getting started, I discovered that there weren’t very many website that had actual information on the topics and so now I am left with the things I have written … [Read more…]
In an episode of Rita, we see her daughter, Molly, playing Yatzy with Lillibeth, her grandma. At first I wasn’t aware it was Yatzy until later on when Molly is playing the same game alone. I’m going to be honest. I’ve played Yahtzee before so this isn’t exactly an adventure. It is practically the same … [Read more…]
I started to realized that my blog is suppose to be about culture (or that’s what I’m aiming for), but I have been spending way to much time writing about dramas. I love dramas! I am going to try to spend more time writing about things that come up in everyday life that are also … [Read more…]
Starting last weekend in my city (and many cities with a Mexican Catholic population as well), the Mexican population started celebrating the Virgin Mary. A local church hosted a parade, which had a floats honoring the Virgin and a wide variety of native dancing with vibrate costumes and people dancing to the beat of the … [Read more…]
Whenever I read or watch something, I like to write about the cultural differences that I see. The things we can learning about culture from Good Morning Kiss are minimal, but still very interesting. Kimono vs Yukata In the manga, Nao wears both a kimono and a yukata at some point. They both look … [Read more…]
There’s a lot that can be learned from reading or watching something, that’s why I created a series called Learning About Culture in order to discuss or share that thing I learn. Good Morning Call is a manga (with a drama with the same name). The following list is cultural things that I wanted to … [Read more…]
The manga Good Morning Call was written from 1997 until 2002, so there are a lot of things that stand out for being something of the era. So this will be a memory lane for some and an anthropological look at a past culture for others. So let’s take that blast into the past through … [Read more…]