Japanese and Indian Cultures

This essay aims to provide more information in regards to the differences between the Australian and Japanese cultures, as well as fundamental insights into Japanese business etiquette and highlight important steps for effective communication when making business in a foreign country. As the Australian entrepreneur and owner of ‘The Aromatic Condiment Shop’ Emily is looking to expand her business deals in Japan it is paramount to make a favourable first impression and understand key points to better navigate cultural differences and grow her business.

There are many unique concepts in marriages in India that differ from American marriages, such as arranged marriages. According to statisticbrain.com, “88.4% of marriages in India are arranged marriages”. The idea of having families set you up with your significant other is viewed as a very odd concept to people of American culture. Many other norms and traditions generally seen in Indian weddings differ greatly from what you might see at a wedding in America. There are many differences such as the traditions before the wedding and what goes on during and after.

According to students Sravani Gullapalli and Aparna Raju Sagi article “Indian Wedding Traditions” (on page 3) traditionally the bride wears a sari or a lehenga which is highly ornate with gold and silver embroidery. The color of the sari or the lehenga is of great

Which such close knit families in India how is marriage conducted and how does that differ from American marriages? There are various differences between American and Indian marriage customs. For example: in America, the ceremony is one day, with corsages presented to the guests of honor, and the couple exchanges ring; afterwards, birdseed is thrown. In India, it is a multi-day ceremony with garlands presented to the guests of honor; instead of rings, a mangala sutra - cord with gold pendants - is tied around the bride's neck in three knots by the groom, and rose petals are thrown for luck ("Indian Wedding Traditions and Customs", n.d.). However, both ceremonies share similarities in that the parents walk the bride down the aisle and the bride

One major example of a similarity is their social order. They both used feudalism, a social order based on power and land. To start, they both had a top dog. Japan had an Emperor, and Europe had the pope. And it continues, being the same system, they both work like this: The highest lords pay lords under them land. Those lords then

People no longer use the term “Japanese American” in today's society. Instead, they are no longer thought as a separate group and are incorrectly categorized as “Asian American”, along with Vietnamese American, Chinese American, etc. Japanese Americans have an extremely unique background in terms of their origins, history, and struggle with racialization. Like many ethnic groups, Japanese Americans have been subjected to many different portrayals throughout American history. Even though cultural separation and suspicion are deemed as immoral, such practices toward them were thought to be necessary by the American Government. For a good amount of time, they suffered from racial hostility and violence. Now, in an age where cultural diversity

1. Indian marriages: In India specially North, People believe in Arrange-marriages. The wedding style is totally different in India than other countries. People can celebrate it anywhere like Temples, Gurudwaras, Community Center, At home etc.

I am going to Japan soon. I have been thinking about the things that I am going to see and how life could be different. The culture, food and the other activities that I would do. Everything is different there. Even school.

Although being family-oriented has always been a beneficial characteristic for me, it was both difficult and mundane to deal with my extended family during my earlier years. No one cared to ask for my opinion for anything because I was too little and in the Indian culture, it is a norm to do what the elders say. However, when I got older, I became more aware hence my thoughts changed and I started thinking more independently. Growing up, initially, it was tough to balance the American and Indian cultures because there were always high expectations and many of the elders were narrow minded, refusing to adapt to a new lifestyle and acknowledge cultural changes. There was something that would always contradict one another. Though,

According to Dyer (2013), the culture is considered monolithic in nature because the culture is formed by a single society or single background. For example, Japanese culture formed by a single ethnic group while sharing tradition, norms and values within the group (p. 220). Thus, the culture is established socially by the group of people with same background and society.

Arranged marriages are part of the social culture of South Asian society. This has been their tradition for ages, and it goes on to contribute to a high majority of Indian sub-continent marriages.

Our group has selected Northern Japanese (Hokkaido) society as our target culture. Japan is a country that known for having a highly homogeneous society, but different region has their own significance in social and cultural patterns. Indigenous Ainu people and their cultural has been home in this region for a long time. They keep their own ways of life and did not assimilate into other regional culture pattern in Japan. Ainu defined as human. They used to pray and perform ceremonies for their gods include nature god, animal god, and more. The Fishing is one of the activity they do for their living and most of the villages were located near the sea or river.

Culture is defined in different ways throughout the region of the world, with different characteristics that define culture. In this paper I will define the meaning of Japan’s culture and describe Japan’s common culture characteristics throughout their nation’s physical geography, military conflict history, and weather analysis. Culture is by the beliefs, customs, arts, a particular society, group, place or time such as music, theater, painting, their habits, and traditions. Like ways of life for their way of thinking, behaving, or working.

If they were to meet each other without the parent’s permission, it is considered as bad manner and bad upbringing. In India, the average age to marry is 24 years old for the males and 22 to 23 years old for the females. Indian weddings are usually the longest wedding, which are held in the night time in a huge wedding hall, that includes many different rituals which are performed in front of the God and the couple promise’s each other that they will be together in a sad or a happy moment, no matter what will be the results. Even though wedding has the same meaning in every culture, the way of celebration and ceremony is different. According to iloveindia.com, the ceremony in India is about the priest, groom, bride, and bride’s parents sit beneath a mandap, and a canopy. The wedding ceremony starts off with the Kanya Daan, in which the bride’s parents give away the bride’s hand to the groom with all her responsibility. Then the couple holds hands together and start circling around a small, enclosed fire in a ritual called the mangal phera for seven times by taking a seven oaths together to spend a rest of the life to live as a one soul. The seven steps around the enclosed fire, is the vow to support each other and live happily together. Finally, the groom will apply a red powder to the center of the bride’s forehead and tie a black beaded necklace around her neck, symbolizing

For my culture book I had Naruto Volume One. Naruto is a book about a outcast kid from a village who wants to be the next best fighter but finds out that the reason he is hated by everyone is because the Nine Tail Fox, the beast that almost destroyed the village, is trapped inside him. Thanks to his teacher and only friends Naruto continues to work hard and train. Naruto has many culture differences and I am going to show a couple of example of what those differences are. I am first going to talk about cultural food differences between mine and the book. Second, I am going to talk about the cultural divergence of the names of the characters in the book compared to the names in my culture that are most commonly used. Finally, I’m going to compare clothing that the characters wear against the cloths that is worn in my culture today.