2008年10月22日水曜日

Globalization in Japan

One of my friends likes reading magazines about foreign celebrities. She buys some of them every month.
Nowadays lots of young girls are following the latest fashion of American stars like Paris Hilton or Kate Moss. They are also interested in their gorgeous life in LA. I guess the reason such magazines are published and getting popular is that Japanese people, especially girls, have akogare to other countries. They are immitating the celebrities with changing hair color or getting their eyelids double-edged.
We Japanese people also like to watch American TV drama. The DVDs of HEROES or 24 are very popular among many generations.

We can see a large number of clothes with messages in English. One teacher in my high school often told his students that we should be careful of wearing clothes having sentences in another language. Sometimes they are wrong and seems strange to native people. There are a lot of things having English words around us in Japan. The photo below is my sisters' T short.

This site has funny signs in English and some of them are taken in Japan. http://www.engrish.com/


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visual gonthros さんのコメント...

Please explain how your examples illustrate globalization.