culture and communication
Jane Eyre Movie Trailer Official HD – YouTube
Update: Though she would never have put it so indelicately, in this quote (from a letter, August 16, 1849 ), Charlotte Brönte kicks ass, with spirit and decision! I do not respect an inconsistent critic. He says, ‘if Jane Eyre be the production of a woman, she must be a woman unsexed.’ In that case [...]
Great marketing video: how to sell a “grandmother white” Corolla Toyota
(Mouse-tip to Gary North for the link.)
How (not) to make a video
A video I won’t be imitating any time soon, unless I ever want to put people off. Altho the speaker is facing the camera, he has his eyes closed or looking off-screen much of the time. I don’t get the feeling he is really interested in talking to me. It looks like a self-indulgent rant. [...]
Lady Gaga, Coldplay and Other Western Artists are Minor in Japan | Marketing Japan
A Japanese professor of English was lamenting to me that Japanese young people these days are not interested in going abroad to study English. (He thinks this presages the end of Japanese civilization.) Today, I read a post that I think goes some way to explaining this phenomenon. For better or worse, I think the [...]
Japanese smile
I teach a cross-cultural communication class in English/Japanese to Japanese college students, and I wanted to give my students an example of “the inscrutable Oriental”, or an example of how ways to express emotion are not always the same across cultures, and therefore not always easy to “read”. I used this example: I used these [...]
Over one in six Japanese want a geiger counter | 世論 What Japan Thinks
I subscribe to “Yoron What Japan Thinks”. This guy has gone to the trouble of translating into English the results of online surveys that deal with consumer and life-style trends in Japan, surveys that I wouldn’t couldn’t read in Japanese. These statistics are interesting, but I also liked his comment on irresponsible journalism. I suppose [...]
“So you point to a tree and say, ‘See that car?’
Jon Rappoport writes some pretty interesting stuff. Today he came up with something that wraps up in a nutshell a recurring concern I have, like a sore that won’t go away, about “education”: “Education tends to define what is there before a person can experience it on his own.” Here’s the context, but click the [...]
Facebook: “you can check out but you can never leave…”
Mouse-tip to Marketing Japan for pointing this out. I don’t really like Facebook, can’t figure out how to use it. Plus it’s annoying to see so much stuff I don’t want to see on my page. The most interesting view, I found, is “The Wall”, but that doesn’t come up by default, and when I [...]
OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE « Jon Rappoport’s Blog
Jon Rappoport has an update on the Iranian actress sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in jail, which I wrote about yesterday. While you’re there, check out the next item on his blog. Yesterday, in New York, two guys in suits showed up at the rally with a sign that announced: WE ARE THE [...]
Tsunami debris floats across the Pacific towards Midway
This stuff could be floating around for a long time, ebbing back and forth across the Pacific. Yuk. I’m reminded of the beginning of J.G. Ballard’s novel (and movie), “Empire of the Sun”, where the coffins float down the river, bump against ships, and break open … Anyone for a swim in Hawaii? Can’t find [...]
