In the past decades, Africa has had an increasing audience ranging from little kids to young adult whose interest in anime has grown. Nowadays, every second kid show shown on TV is a Japanese anime. For, that I decided to share this rising culture as a topic for my blog.

People started noticing that they are picking up some Japanese by repeatedly hearing phrases and seeing their subtitles displayed. Suddenly, middle schoolers started adopting these anime phrases and words in day-to-day conversation. Words like “バーカ”, “めんどくさい”, “愛している became embedded into this new language culture. They became more than just words, they became concepts that were easier and somewhat more powerful to use.

さいきん日本のアニメのようにアフリカもアニメを作り始めました。色々なれきしとでんせつ

のストーリーができました。子供の時のいちばん人気があるアフリカのアニメは「Samba et Leuk」と言いました。

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The show is about a young man who’s in love with a cursed woman. She changes into a woman at sunset and changes back to a gazelle at dawn. His quest is to find her cure, and in the process, he’ll stumble upon various challenges that he must overcome. He’s helped by his friends the pig and the hare in his quest.

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この活動は新しいのに人気があります。だから、外国人はアフリカについてよく習えます。そして、このアニメのばんぐみはせいようのアカルチュレーションとたたかうのをたすけます。

Moreover, these African anime programs that embody African tradition and cultures while adding a touch of fun, and fiction help a lot of adults to reconnect with their roots. Japan set up the framework for the expansion of animated TV shows that can have become primordial to children’s childhood. This prevalence can be used to educate people through these animated programs.

Reference

[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiosrfm0v_eAhWkTt8KHcZ9As8QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0891412%2Fmediaviewer%2Frm2776373760&psig=AOvVaw3SCiNtCxUyvkyOUqzWqzdc&ust=1543787133641247

[2] https://youtu.be/6aQDr9js6yQ

Respect

I chose this topic because of how polite the relationship between parents and their children is in the Japanese culture. As a matter of fact, Japanese culture is centered on respect of privacy and respect of hierarchy in the family. In everyday life, people treat and talk to strangers with such a big level of respect that one might think that it’s impossible to make friends from strangers.

Form a very young age, Japanese people are taught to value family members and strangers with huge respect. They are taught to behave respectively in the presence of adults. When they are teenagers, they get introduced to a new form of the Japanese language called “KEIGO”. They usually learn this completely new way of talking in class as they learn other subjects. It changes from the already formal way they speak to their parents to a higher level of formality mostly used with teachers, professors, and elderly people. When speaking with elders, they usually bow as a sign of respect. They are many social hierarchies in the Japanese culture are respected and as one moves up the ladder, they get to speak less and less formally and access more and more respect and politeness in the ways that others that to them.

Japanese culture is a great model a hierarchic society based on mutual respect. It emphasizes the respect of privacy and allows those who are distinguished elders to influence the youth through teaching them how to respect each other. And it’s possible to make friends in Japan by slowly getting more and more familiar with the person. This culture of respect is probably one of the reasons why Japan is a great country.

Reference

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