JAPN 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Yamatai, Island Life, Raised Floor
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Japn 2150 - lecture 1 - defining japan and japanese . Characteristics, knowledge, experience, and the patterns of behavior that are shared by a certain group of people. Any aspects of human activities can be culture. A group of people can be defined by . Language, religion, music, art, literature, social habits, values, customs, food, and laws. Generation: grandparents - parents, parents - children. Region: linguistics, religion, ethnicities within a nation. *culture is no longer fixed; it is continuously and rapidly changing. A philosophy that defines proper conduct for people and governments in order to achieve a peaceful society. Five key relationships: ruler and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, elder sibling and younger sibling, friend and friend. Chinese emperors, rulers in korea and japan adopted these ideas. Superiors were expected to be benevolent and set good examples to the inferiors. How the people of east asia viewed themselves:
