Japanese vs Chinese

1.  House hold beliefs: Institutional forms of Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and other traditions contributed many beliefs and practices to popular religion in its local variants. These traditions, especially Buddhism, included the idea of personal cultivation for the purpose of living an ideal life and, as a consequence, attaining some kind of afterlife salvation, such as immortality, enlightenment, or birth in a heavenly realm. 
2. Which is the most important holiday in Japanese culture?: January 1 (national holiday) New Year (shogatsu): This is the most important holiday in Japan. While only January 1 is designated as a national holiday, many businesses remain closed through January 3. More information is available on the New Year page.
3.  Which is the main religion of China?: The main religions are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism.
4. How was the social structure of ancient Japan? They had an emperor and imperial family, they had aristocracy or nobility.
5. Who is the most important character of Chinese culture? Confucius, lao tzu, Xi shi, Empress dou, zhang ziyi, Jackie chan, Yao ming.
6.   How do Japanese dress? There is a typical dressing called kimono.
7.  How is Chinese education system? To provide for its population, China has a vast and varied school system. There are preschools, kindergartens, schools for the deaf and blind, key schools (similar to college preparatory schools), primary schools, secondary schools (comprising junior and senior middle schools, secondary agricultural and vocational schools, regular secondary schools, secondary teachers' schools, secondary technical schools, and secondary professional schools), and various institutions of higher learning (consisting of regular colleges and universities, professional colleges, and short-term vocational universities). In terms of access to education, China's system represented a pyramid; because of the scarcity of resources allotted to higher education, student numbers decreased sharply at the higher levels. Although there were dramatic advances in primary education after 1949, achievements in secondary and higher education were not as great.
8.  How are Japanese movies like? The main genre are of horror.
9.   How is Chinese family structure? 7 people living under the same roof. This character clearly explains the meaning of a family, portraits the size of a family in usual and it depicts the 3/4/5-generation-family concept.
10. Which is the most important festival in Japan? Sapporo Snow Festival 
11.  What are Chinese best at? Line production. 
12. How long do they live? Japanese men live up  to 78 years average while the average lifespan of a Japanese woman 
13. Are there 4x4 trucks in japan?Yes, mini band or Kei trucks
14. How many books do japanese read per year?
15. What kind of music do chinese listen to? They all listen to synth pop
16. Is there a starbucks in China? Yes, there are 10 
17. How many blackberrry's  are in Japan? You can only get them from very few places but japanese do not like the BlackBerry
18. Whats the best chinese beer? Naale Stoutbeer 
19. How many cars are in Japan?The latest estimate is about 57 million.
20. Do chinese have private schools? Yes
21. How many people use the internet in china?No real number exists, the "guess-timate" is between 123 and 129 million users. 
22. What style of clothing they use nowaddays? very colorful, strange, lots of different prints, lots of layers.
23. Why they make their cartoons with big eyes? not all cartoons are that way, and it's not an inferiority complex, they just like to draw that way
24. What is their religion? Shinbutsu shūgō
25. How old they live?65 years
26. How much do they earn? 32,554
27. Innovations about Japan Eco-vending machines, solar powered electronics, recycled design goods, re.thinking packaging
28. How's living in communism? it has been working for chinese, they have a good economy
29. How they elect their governors? voting
30. Why chinese don't care about high quality?because they do it alll with line production
31. How many computers they have?9.84 millions
32. Which is their type of money? yuan y yen
33. Type of learning? education is compulsory at the elementary and lower secondary levels. Virtually all students progress to the upper secondary level, which is voluntary
34. Religion? they incorporate elements of various religions
35. What do lions and tigers mean? representing royalty
36. Why samurais and ninjas? warriors
37. Why rice? For thousands of years, the Chinese have been diligently cultivating their land. Blood, sweat and tears have been shed over their soil in the pursuit of favorable harvests. This reliance on the land for so many thousands of years accounts for China’s strong rural essence. The need for rice production has led the Chinese to pay particular attention to irrigation technologies, improving cultivation. The agricultural way of life, centered around rice, has had a strong influence on the social, economic, political and ideological developments of ancient China. In this sense, traditional Chinese culture may be considered a “rice culture.”
38. Why dragons? Dragons are legendary creatures, typically with serpentine or otherwise reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures.
39. Other cultures? Yes they have other cultures
40. Starting age to go to school. 6 years
41. House hold beliefs. loyalty, honor, strenght
42. What style of clothing they use nowaddays? very colorful, strange, lots of different prints, lots of layers.
43. Why they make their cartoons with big eyes? not all cartoons are that way, and it's not an inferiority complex, they just like to draw that way
44. What is their religion? Shinbutsu shūgō
45. How old they live? 65 years
46. How much do they earn? 32,554
47. Innovations about Japan Eco-vending machines, solar powered electronics, recycled design goods, re.thinking packaging
48. How's living in communism? it has been working for chinese, they have a good economy
49. How they elect their governors? voting
50. Why chinese don't care about high quality? because they do it alll with line production
51. How many computers japanese have? 9.84 million
52. Who buys more luxury items? Japanese
53. Which culture is cleaner in the kitchen process? Japanese because they make things oil free.
54. Which one exports mor products world wide? China exports more
55. Who are normaly taller? Japanese people are taller.
56. What is their typical clothing? Kimono
57. Who have better make up? Both have different kind of make up there's no better.
58. Which is the predominant religion? Bhudism
59. Which coin is worth more? Yen
60. Why don't japanese or chinese like to sunbath? they do like they have a lot of sun by summer.
61. How do they consider the woman in each culture? They consider them as the main part of the family. They used to be lower as men.
62. What is the fashionable chinese stuff they use? They have stuff that look like european fashion they have been globalized.
63. Which networks do chinese use? Facebook.
64. How is the marriage in Japan? Civil marriage
65. Which place is the most cultural in Japan? Singapore 
66. How do chinese meditate? 

    Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Feng 

67. Is it true that chinese can fly through meditation? It's just a belief.
68. How is their education? It's hard because they are so many people so they are so many people. 
69. How is chinese calendar? The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly one
70. How is the enviroment in school in each culture? It's hard because they're so many people and they are so globalized, and they have social classes really defined.
71. What do Chinese eat for  breakfast? Many Chinese begin their day with a warm bowl of congee, a watery rice gruel that bears a marked resemblance to porridge
72. How many kids do Japanese usually have? They have small family with 2 or 3 kids
73. How are the family relationship in China? The Chinese family titles are divided up by generation. For example parents, aunts, and uncles are all grouped together under the "Parent's Generation" section. Spouses are grouped together. The spouse who is the blood relative is listed first, the spouse who is related by marriage is listed second. At what time do Japanese eat? 9.00 breakfast, 12.00 lunch , 8.00 dinner
74. How many hours do Japanese usually sleep? around 7 and 8 hours
75. Do they take a nap? sometimes when they need it
76. How often do Chinese take a shower? It depends of the person but the majority take a shower everyday 
77. How is the Japanese education? In Japan, education is compulsory at the elementary and lower secondary levels. Virtually all students progress to the upper secondary level, which is voluntary. Most students attend public schools through the lower secondary level, but private education is popular at the upper secondary and university levels. Which are the most important Chinese religion? Buddhism and Taoism 
78. How many hours do Chinese usually work? They started to work at 10:00 am to (sometimes) midnight 
79. How do Chinese celebrate birthdays? Chinese people don't attach much attention to their birthdays until they reach a certain age. However, they do celebrate birthdays for newborns and elderly people by inviting relatives and close friends to banquets that feature various activities. 
80. Which language do Chinese speak? Chinese or the Sinitic language
81. How many people are in Japan? AROUND 127,000,000
82. How do Japanese live? Most young Japanese will live in a one-room apartment, far from the station which is usually dirt cheap. Some will live in dorms provided by their company or have support from their parents.
83. How is the average school day in China? The average school day runs from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a two-hour lunch break 
84. Which are the principal religions in Japan? There are two principal religions in Japan, Shintoism and Buddhism, officially followed by 54% and 40% of the population respectively. 
85. Which are the differences between their government? Japan is a constitutional monarchy and China is communist
86. How many years do Japanese live? Japan has the oldest life expectancy in the world. That means people in Japan live a really really long time. Men live to 79 years old. Women live a little over 86 years old. 
87. How is the culture of Japan? Japanese popular culture not only reflects the attitudes and concerns of the present but also provides a link to the past. Popular films, television programs, manga, and music all developed from older artistic and literary traditions, and many of their themes and styles of presentation can be traced to traditional art forms.
88. How do Japanese women dress? They dress the traditional "kimono"
89. Which are their traditions?
    Japan has 13 public holidays. When one of them falls on a Sunday, it is reported to the following Monday.
    1 January - 元日 (New Year's Day)
    Second Monday of January - 成人の日 (Adult's Day)
    11 February - 建国記念の日 (National Foundation Day)
    21 March (approx.) - 春分の日 (Vernal Equinox Day)
    29 April - 緑の日 (Green Day)
    3 May - 憲法記念日 (Constitution Day)
    5 May - 子どもの日 (Children's Day)
    15 September - 敬老の日 (Respect-for-the-Aged Day)
    22 September (approx.) - 秋分の日 (Autumnal Equinox Day)
    10 October - 体育の日 (Sports Day)
    3 November - 文化の日 (Culture Day)
    23 November - 勤労感謝の日 (Labour Thanksgiving Day)
    23 December - 天皇誕生日 (Emperor's Birthday) 
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    Who fights better?
Japanese
because of the variety of martial arts they have.
    90. Do they get along?
No, they have a lot of problems and differences.

    91. Which ones are normally taller?
Japanese

    92. Who has a better education?
Chinese

    93. Which one has more population?
Chinese

    9.4 Who has more kids?
Japanese

    9.5 Whose coin worths more?
Yuan-japanese

    9.6 Why do they eat on the floor?
They didnt have tables in their country. Japan was cut off from the world for a while. Its now a tradition for the traditional japanese people.
    97. Why do they like karate?
Because it forms part of their traditions, they believed that martial arts may purify their souls, being prepared to war and in ancient culture to fight against spirits


    98. Who are taller?
Japanese


    99. Which have the biggest population?
Chinese


    100.Who has the best makeup?
japanese


    
    

Suggestions and recommendations

If you're trying to give some recommendations we suggest you to use one of these expressions.

1. When you go out, remember to  
2. I suggest that you 
3. It's not a good idea
4. I would recommend
5. You should
6. To avoid something, consider 
7. I recommend that
8. If you're looking for

You can use verbs in infinitive, present, present continues. For example in the first suggestion it can be: When you go out remember to leave nothing valuable in your room. Or the last one: If you're looking for a cheap lunch takeout sandwiches are a good option. I hope it is well explained.

Writing a report

Sometimes we need to write a report and the only thing we do is to write ideas with no sense.
Reports are used by another person or group of people, they're often used to help them make decisions. The information always has to be clearly presented and easy to access, most of the times it includes suggestions, recommendations and conclusions.
 Some examples are:

1.  Financial situations of a company 
2. Evaluating the facilities that a place has to offer.
3. Scientific results.

Dealing with stressful situations

Now I'll give you some vocabulary you can use at stressful situations. Hope this is useful.


Takes me seriously: This is to be taken serious, it's not hard this one.
Give him a head start: Like having an advantage.
Defend my position: This one is also simple.Defend what you think or believe.
Stick to your guns: Use what you can to protect your point of view.
Present your case: Give your opinion.
Taking control of the situation: Handle the way you want.
Leave him in no doubt you'll carry out the world: Show someone you're able to do something.
Use that to your advantage: Use something against someone.

Body language

First of all I'll mention the vocabulary I'll show:

1. Tapping fingers
2. Stroke chin
3. Fold arms
4. Staring 
5. Clench his teeth
6. Nod
7. Frown

Tapping fingers is when you're playing with your hands.

Stroke chin is when you make a face using your hand like pointing to your left or right, near your chin. This means you're thinking.

Fold arms is when you....Yes!!! fold your arms, this means you're not receiving information from someone. 

Staring. This means you're interested on something or someone. Or maybe you're a stalker.

Clench teeth. This happens when you're angry. It's like GRRRR.

Nod. Is just saying yes with your head.

Frown. Is when you want something and you don't get it. For example you are a child that wants a toy and he has been asking for it for Christmas, then he opens his present and, guess what? He didn't get the toy he wanted, the face he does that's frown.

Writing compositions

You may want some tips about writing compositions.
First of all you have to know who are you writing. A particular audience or something like that, this must influence the style you use.

Also you have to know if it's a formal or informal style, this depends on the first point I mentioned.
Your composition has to have a sequence.You have to join ideas making an interesting writing.
And the last tip I can give you, is that when you finish writing, check it twice finding mistakes or coherence.

Be going to, Would, infinitive

Be going to i used to express future actions, planned in the past. (except the one that are for a schedule or program).
Example:
- I´m going to buy a new car next week.
- They ´re going to move house.
- She´s going to have a baby.
- We´re going to get married next summer.
- Linda´s going to learn Italian.


Would

"Would" is most commonly used to create conditional verb forms. It also serves as the past form of the modal verb "will." Additionally, "would" can indicate repetition in the past. For more information on the grammar behind the modal verb "would," 

Examples:

• If he were an actor, he would be in adventure movies. conditional
• I knew that she would be very successful in her career. past of "will"
• When they first met, they would always have picnics on the beach. repetition

Infinitive:

Certain words are followed by an infinite verb with or without ‘to’.

Use and Word Lists	Example
as the subject of a clause	To know you is to love you.
after certain expressions (without ‘to’)	Why not go to the cinema?
after certain verbs (without ‘to’)	I can swim.
after certain verbs (with ‘to’)	He wants to swim.
after certain verbs with interrogatives (infinitive constructions)	They don’t know how to swim.
after certain verbs with objects (without ‘to’)	He made her swim.
after certain verbs with objects (with ‘to’)	They wanted him to swim.
after certain adjectives and their comparisons	It’s easier to swim downstream.
after nouns deriving from the verbs mentioned above	We made a promise to swim. (derived from the verb ‘to promise’)

Using a present or past participle.

we can use -ing & -ed forms:
a) combined with other words to make participle clauses.
e.g., Not  knowing where she was, I rang her on the  phone.
(=Because I didn't know where she was, I rang her on the cell phone.)
Left waiting in the rain for an hour, he felt very angry.
(=He  had been left waiting in the rain  for an hour, so he felt very angry.)

b) after nouns to make reduced relative clauses.
e.g., Can you see the man sitting on the bench?
(=Can you see the man sitting on the bench?)
We drove past treets blown down by the storm.
(=We drove past treets that had been blown  down by the storm.)

c) after conjunctions and prepositions.
e.g., After eating dinner, I like to take a long bath.
When traveling, I like to take a dairy with me.

Alternatives to relatives clauses

Defining relative clauses (also called identifying relative clauses or restrictive relative clauses) give detailed information defining a general term or expression. Defining relative clauses are not put in commas.

Defining relative clauses are often used in definitions.

A seaman is someone who works on a ship.

Object pronouns in defining relative clauses can be dropped. (Sentences with a relative clause without the relative pronoun are called Contact Clauses.)

The boy (who/whom) we met yesterday is very nice.

Non-Defining Relative Clauses 

Non-defining relative clauses (also called non-identifying relative clauses or non-restrictive relative clauses) give additional information on something, but do not define it. Non-defining relative clauses are put in commas.

Example.- Do you know the girl, who is talking to Tom?

Note: In non-defining relative clauses, who/which may not be replaced with that.

Object pronouns in non-defining relative clauses must be used.

Jim, who/whom we met yesterday, is very nice.

Women rights

The author says that women used to have fewer legal rights. Because they had different professions in life.

In my opinion women should have the same right because they're persons, or maybe they might have different laws protecting her, because it's not the same working out with a men than a women they're weaker

Women in Reform Movements

Women in Reform Movements

Women weren't allowed to speak up their opinion, just in some mixed audience of men and women. There were some male abolitionists that supported the right  of women to speak and participate with men in antislavery activities, having the same worth their voice.

 

In mi opínion women have influenced about taking decisions about slavery, they've been a good reason to improve laws, and things that made this world worst. Women are great taking desicions

Feminist Philosophies

Feminist Philosophies

Author says: Women complained that they were human and their development was severely limited. That's because they weren't allowed to vote, have some jobs and things like that. Charlotte Perkings characterized home as inefficient compared with the mass production techniques used in the modern factory. She proposed that women should share the tasks of homemaking with the best women cookers, cleaners, and some that can take care of young children everyone doing their own task.

Feminists believed that a cooperative society based on socualist economic principles would make women rights be applied. The social labor party was  one of the first political parties in the US and they involve women.

By the 20th century the term new woman appeared and was used by popular press.  Women were used to work in blue and white collar jobs, this was criticized  by society and had the idea that it was the end of home and family.

 

I think women want to many rights and they don't offer to much. They just want to receive and have law applied in things they have some benefits, but in other things they don't want to be treated as equal as men. I have the idea that women should rise their children with the help of their husband, but the main earnings should be assumed by men. This is dignity and well all the time it has been made this way and it has worked so in my opinion it should be this way. 

Women in Politics

Women in Politics

The author word are thar women have had the right to vote since 1920 but they were not taken in a real way. This changed by 1984.

By 1979 Chicago and San Francisco were governed by women. The author mentioned to much women that became important at government and departments of the government. This was a huge developement for women because they were elected and had their right to speak up their opinions and ideas.

 

In my opinion, a lot of women give great ideas in politics. They have a different point of view , women have been producing interesting proposals. In Mexico they have been acquiring better positions in government, and i guess they're making a good job. But still it's strange to see a women fighting for their ideas with men.

 

Women at Work

Women at Work

The author's idea is that women didn't work at jobs because a lot of people thought they were useless. For example there weren't women doctor, lawyers, preachers, etc.  By the 19th century society accepted the fact that women were able to do jobs they were not supposed to do. Women were excluded from the professions, except for writing and teaching. It was considered  nursing as a proper female occupation. Also the teaching profession was a great field for women to work.

Women didn't get the important assignments and promotions, this was a severe discrimination in jobs. One of the facts that make women being discriminates is that if they're pregnant, and in this situation the company has to pay the worker as if she's working and this stops productivity.

 

My point of view is that women shouldn't be discriminated from works that are for men. We just need to get a different solution to the problem that women get paid the time they're having their baby. I think society has changed their point of view about women. The problem of accepting women at jobs is that their children have a lack of education by their mothers. This is giving a lot of problemas to society we should attack that, it probably is giving more problems than solutions. I understand the fact they want to do something more than raising children. But someone has to do that job.

The Legal Status of Women

The Legal Status of Women

Unmarried woman could own property, make a contract, or sue and be sued. But married they are like a man's belonging. In other words the husband's have control of her.

The man owned his wife and children and all their possesions. Laws have been equal by the run of the time.  Nowadays women can sue their husband that has changed a lot since the age that women had no right to express their opinion.

In my opinion woman should have the right of having their own opinion and rights. The thing is that they should have their own properties, and belongings. I think the solution of this is the prenuptial agreement. Every person can have their own things. For example women can have their car  registered at their name.  

 

The weaker sex?

The Weaker Sex?

Women were considered weaker than men, and some times useless at some jobs. For example in muscular work and some times at intellectual also. Of couse we remember the domestic job was only for women, for example: taking care for children and well if we move on to older times, women were in charge of milking cows, washing clothes in the river, and things like that. But now we have discovered that women have a grat tolerance for pain and they live longer.

 

 

In some culture the education depend from her mother for example she taught to cook, clean, raising children. 

Tests have shown that women get better grades at school. 

 

In my opinion women has reached better grades at school, but this doesn't mean anything because, I've met people that haven't studied anything and they're succesfull people. I also disagree that women just can work at home work or carying their kids.

Early Attitudes Toward Women

The author says that women have been viewed as a source of evil. Historically, women were considered intellectually inferior to men, and also a source of evil.
This beliefs toward women has been better. For example, Hinduism required obedience of women toward men.

Women made significant achievements. They love having power and prestige.

In my opinion, I believe that women should be treated as men. They are always complaining that they want the same rights. They should have the same obligations that men have.