Culture

Culture

All countries have their culture about the food, the clothes, the administration and the behavior. Something you can do in your country, maybe that is the bad thing in an other country. And we cannot say who is wrong but we can learn about that.

I got the work to interview some foreigners about their country. At first, I interviewed my teachers who come from USA and United Kingdom. My topics are about the government, the election, the flag, the soldier and the newspaper.

About the flag in United Kingdom, people doesn’t raise it up or down everyday like Thailand. They will use it to show their enemy in the war for make their enemy know what their country is. I think, in Thailand, we want to show the flag is important so we raise it up and down everyday. So, maybe people in United Kingdom care about that. It isn't wrong but it oppose my mind because my society cares about that.

In USA, each state has their own newspaper. I think, that is a good idea because every time, there is something happening and people can know it faster if they can get the newspaper fast. But some states, the newspaper doesn’t write about other countries so people cannot know what happens in the world but they aren’t interested about that. So I think, there are good and bad things about that. In Thailand, the newspaper will write everything, everywhere ,but some provinces don’t get that ,because it so far away but people don’t care about that a lot. I don’t know what is better.

This work makes me learn about every country have the different culture. And when you go to that country, you must do like people in that country. I think you can think different but you cannot say they are wrong.

In USA or United Kingdom or Thailand, most people will agree and follow their culture.

What society expects of me.

What society expects of me.

If society will be good or bad depend on the people. The teenagers today will be the people who control the society. So they must get expectation from their parents, their teacher or the old people in the society.

Everyone expects the children will be good people and do the good things to the society. A woman who can make fame for her county or a man who is a leader and bring everyone to the good way. If they have a good leader, their life will be good. And the person who will be a leader is one of the teenagers so they have the expectation of the teenager.

The parents must expect good behaviour from their children. Maybe they will order their children everything, they want their children to get the top of every test or they want their children to be like them. And what about those children? Do they want to do that? I think many children don’t want to do that but they must to do that because their parents want. And they cannot tell their parents, maybe because they don’t want their parents disappointed. For example, the parents want their children to be the doctor but the children like art a lot, so the children must study hard and be unhappy about that.

Now, I’m a teenager and I’m going to be a woman in the society. I don’t know what the society or my parents expect of me. I think, now, they expect me to get the good point from every subject and study in the good university. So I think this is not the big expectation that I cannot do. I think I’m a lucky girl because my parents don’t want me to be something that I don’t want.