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Draw a comparison between Japan’s drinking tea habit and New Zealand’s drinking tea habit
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THE JAPAN’S HISTORY OF TEA In the 15th century, tea became such a revered beverage that a whole culture developed around it, culminating in the tea ceremony. The drinking of tea became highly structured recreation centered on such aesthetic and philosophical concepts as wabi (austere beauty) and sabi (tranquility). Eventually the tea ceremony became synonymous with cultural refinement, and court nobles and the wealthy would frequently participate in the ritual. It was only much later that the custom of tea drinking spread to the average person and tea became an indispensable daily beverage. The entrenched in everyday life, it has become an indispensable to drink tea in the life and culture of the Japanese. In addition, the deep
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Most of Japanese people drink tea by habit. We generally drink Green tea, Barley tea, Oolong tea and other tea. Recently some people drink herb tea, flavor tea, having said that the Green tea is the mainstream of the Japanese drinking tea culture.
WHEN - When do you drink tea? In Japan, most usually drink tea when we were thirsty, during the meal, after the meal, snack time. We don’t have especially time for drinking tea, like English people do.(The morning tea and after noon tea.)
WHO – Which age bracket prefer to drink tea? / When did you drink your first tea? In recent years, diversification and changes in lifestyle, due to differences in the lifetime of the family between the opportunity to drink tea with a teapot is reduced mainly in middle-aged and young layer have.
We start drinking tea from very young age. We have familiarity with drinking Barley tea that as decaffeinated tea when we were child even though we have green tea, black tea and oolong
The sense of necessary honor was very unique to the samurai society. It enabled samurai to develop a culture derived from their individualistic ways. Socially, the samurai initiated many new aspects of popular Japanese culture. In their drive to fulfill their independent fight for honor and status samurai began to take part in high status activities. Being a part of a warrior class gave samurai warriors a distinct character of ruthless killers, but during the Muromachi period in Japan, culture among the samurai flourished. It became common to see samurai enjoying no theatre, developing gardens, and taking part in the flourishing tea ceremony (Keene). This became important to the samurai because they were desperate to have a sense of honor and power. These activities were enjoyed by the samurai who had enough time and money to spare. This showed status and power to the individual samurai. Also, within soc...
Current food trends in Japan consist of alcoholic beverages, imported pasta, cookie wafers, snow ice (a type of incredibly sweet ice cream), soft shell shrimp, tea and coffee.
Most American citizens remember December 7, 1941 and the significance that the incidents of that day had. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a shock to the United States of America and it engaged our country in the Second World War of that century (Pearl, 2009). Unfortunately, due to that incident, many Americans harbor many negative feelings and attitudes towards the country of Japan. While this is an understandable sentiment, it is unnecessary, because Japan is an influence on not on the United States but the entire world. Throughout this paper, we will look at the country of Japan as many have never viewed them before. Their actions of the past are just that, the past. Japan is a thriving and successful country within our environment and it is in our best interest to understand that country better. Japan, as a culture, is the
Siddhartha: Well, I think I’m going to go with the Calm Brewed Tea. How could I resist? It is just so pure and from the Earth I can’t go against the natural environment for some of that “phony stuff” like you always say Holden. What about you?
...ve a higher bone density than people who don’t drink tea. The researcher asserts tea includes fluorine, phytoestrogen, and manganese that are contributing to making higher bone density. (navercast 2)
Japan has historically taken ideas from the United States on its business, merchandise, or other corporate sectors to improve within its political borders. These practices have become massive cultural and economic movements in Japan. Interestingly, Japan takes ideas and molds them into Japanese culture and style; therefore, these products are “Japanized.” To further elaborate on this statement, Japan has succeeded in its businesses and corporations such as the automobile industries around the world (for example, the NUMMI plant production transcended those of American automobile productions due to an enhanced Japanese corporate culture). Albeit many Japanese industries have roots in the United States, they have expanded globally. The music
Recently the concerns of women around their equality in society has become a hotly debated topic in the public spot light. Much of the debate concerns women and the ingrained sexism that permeates most cultures. Many women's activists feel that this ingrained sexism has widened the gap between men and women in a political, social, and economic sense. And for the most part they do have strong evidence to support these claims. Women have suffered through millennia of male dominated societies where treatment of women has been, and in some cases still is, inhuman. Women are treated like subhuman creatures that have only exist to be used for procreate and to be subjugated by men for household use. It has only been very recently that women have become recognized as equals in the eyes of men. Equals in the sense that they have the same political and social rights as males. While the situation has improved, women still have to deal with a male oriented world. Often women in the workplace are thought of as inferior and as a liability. This can be due to concerns about maternity leave, or women with poor leadership skills. But also in part it is due because of the patriarchy that controls all aspects and dynamics of the culture, family, politics, and economy. Even developed countries like The United Kingdom, United States, Germany, and France, could be classified as a patriarchies. These countries may not agree with this notion because of expansive, but not complete changes, that have gradually equalized women in society. However, there are developed countries that openly express a patriarchy and have enacted little societal changes to bring equality to women. Japan is one such country, and t...
In the novel “The Kite Runner”, Khaled Hosseini discusses many different types of food from Afghanistan. Tea was mentioned a few times as Baba retreated to his reading area and drank tea with Rahim Khan. Food is the epicenter of being a guest in an Afghan house because the host takes pride in what he/she serves. A person who is welcomed into the household, that person will be offered the best that the family has to present. They will constantly fill your tea glass and offer snacks until you cover your glass with your hand and say that you’ve had enough.
The increase in production allows sugar to be used as a type of sweetener for beverages that were bitter, such as tea, coffee, and chocolate (108). It explains how sugar is changing the nation socially as it is being embedded into the society more than it had before when it was in the use of the rich class. Nevertheless, sugar also played an important role in increasing the use of tea. Sugar as part of tea drinking changed the British society socially and economically as more individuals would use sugar more alongside with tea. Tea was considered the perfect drink for the British people, unlike chocolate and coffee as tea can be tolerated, even if it was diluted until it tasted like water (112).
While tea is said to be healthier, it is the second most consumed morning beverage. Why is that? On an average day, only one in five American adults drink tea. The average tea drinker takes in more than twenty times more flavonoid antioxidants per day than non-tea drinkers. So those non-tea drinkers are missing out on their daily helping of flavonoid. Caffeine in tea isn't as much of an issue as it is in coffee.
The Japanese culture is based on its long rich history and change is not welcome, things are done the way they were hundreds of years ago. People also don’t tend to voice their opinions like we do here in the States. Anyone who speaks out usually isn’t given much attention and they fall back into their place and a majority of the population is fine with that. Everyone is fine with fitting in and personal opinion is not voiced out loud most of the time. There are multiple practices that are part of the Japanese culture that are not found in American culture. A few of these are bowing instead of handshake when you address someone, slurping or loud noises are viewed as polite and that you’re enjoying your food, and tipping is viewed as an insult. These practices are somewhat opposite in the American culture, we are much more different than some people tend to realize.
The term Wabi Sabi is difficult to define, through it is typically used to refer to accepting and honoring the imperfect. “Wabi has come to mean simple, unmaterialistic and humble by choice and sabi by itself means ‘the bloom of time’. It connotes natural progression.” Wabi-sabi rejects the idea that perfection is even possible, and further rejects the idea that perfection is desirable. In this sense, Wabi Sabi is the exact opposite of Modernism, or the spirit of the machine age, which sought to make things fit a standard. American culture is in opposition with Wabi-Sabi in that most people want immediate gratification, fast and cheap, not difficult and unique. Like people, tea bowls are imperfect and unique.
Our personality have a great influence on which drink, tea or coffee, we prefer over the other. Normally a person who drinks tea have a slower pace of life style. Tea drinkers usually take the drink slowly and let it wait to cool down. As tea drinker usually have their drink in little flavor, they usually eat biscuits while drinking tea
Tseng, H.C., Wang, C., Cheng, S.H., Sun, Z. Chen, P. S., Lee, C., … Yang, Y. (2014). Tea-drinking habit among new university students: Associated factors. Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 30, 98-103.
If you had a free airline ticket to go anywhere in the world, where would you go? Would it be somewhere in Brazil? Or the European country of Ireland? While these may be some of the top choices for a few people living in the United States and other parts of the world, another undoubtedly common answer would be Japan. Japan is located in eastern Asia and is home to 127,103,392 citizens, making it the tenth most populated country in the world. Japan is actually an incredible place once you take into account amazing environment, the inhabitants and their culture, and the sights of the nation, the answer would come very easily.