Question 1
What kinds of games and forms of subculture are most influential and widespread in East Asia (China, Korea, & Japan)?
The kinds of games that are most widespread in East Asia (China, Korea and Japan) are the online games. Even though they received resistance from the authorities of the three East Asian countries, they have experienced outstanding success in the East Asian region. Whereas various online games in the globe sell across the world and thus try to discount their cultural source, online games in the East Asia tend to be culturally specific. This cultural specificity not only results in commercial success of the online games, but also strengthens the sense of national identity of the gamer (Lee & Lim, 2014).
However, the forms of subculture that is most influential and widespread in East Asia is the Chicano subculture. The Chicano subculture originated from the Mexican-American empowerment of the 1940s to 1970s but has now found a new home in East Asia. For this reason, one should not be surprised to get a person who is not Mexican origin waving the green, red and white flag proudly in East Asia. Additionally, the Chicano style fully absorbs the lifestyle of Cholo by adopting the complete khaki with the crease and a cuff look. In Japan, for instance, one can observe them blasting a mixture of their favorite Japanese Chola and Cholo artists and riding around their low riders (Moreno, 2015).
Question 2
What are the signs of changes in the aging process, influenced by urbanization, modernization and changing values?
One of the signs of changes in the aging process, influenced by urbanization, modernization and changing values is the loss of traditional ways of thinking. This enables one to be creative and to leave the old methods that might be no longer relevant, but it also implies loss or weakening of the traditions that helped define a person and a sense of identity. Another, sign of changes in the aging process is the growth of individual autonomy and freedom. As a person grows, he or she become more impersonal and lose his/her traditions and sense of community. His or her norms become weaker and thus become freer to think for himself/herself and behave in new ways. Also, there is increased literacy, with emphasis on the superiority of the scientific over traditional forms of knowledge (Lardbucket.org, 2012).
Question 3
What were the most characteristic post-1978 urban reforms of Guangzhou? How did they change the city?
The most characteristic post-1978 urban reforms of Guangzhou include the firm emphasis on the heavy sector. Also, the tertiary activities attained the equivalent degree of attention during the initial communist time and portrayed a conspicuous sufficiency of the most advanced plans of tertiary activities such as real estate, finance and insurance. Furthermore, the spatial design of the city developed depending on the state-recommended master guide with socialist effects and progressed into three interdependent small clusters divided by agricultural land and connected by west-east running railroads and highways. The planners of the city also continued to exercise the socialist planning method including city-size control, standardization, and use of the neighborhood unit approach. Additionally, the city’s economic system was strongly based on state sector (public). In summary, Guangzhou exhibited the elements of a city in conversion from a system that is planned to an economy that is market oriented and featured the political-ideological discords of urban progress in post-reformed China (MacPherson & Zheng, 1996).
The characteristics of post-1978 urban reforms of Guangzhou change the city into a prosperous, stable and modern central city. It became a national shopping centre, an international trade centre, and the nexus of information, finance, technology, science, communication and transportation, as well as entertainment and culture centre in South China (MacPherson & Zheng, 1996).
References
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Lee, H., & Lim, L. (2014). Cultural policies in East Asia.
MacPherson, S., & Zheng, Y. (1996). Economic and social development in south China. Brookfield, Vt.: E. Elgar.
Moreno, C. (2015). LOOK: Japanese 'Cholos' Embrace Lowriders And Chicano Fashion. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 17 February 2016, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/japanese-cholos_n_1870941.html
