Don't believe me? Just take a look at the source code of the official webpage of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Via The Daily What. ...
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Like Japan, Korea also has an obsession with blood typing. Celebrity profiles include blood types along with height, weight, and interests. Dating/matchmaking service questionnaires always include blood type as one of the first questions. Casual social interactions usually include the exchange of blood type information. And my mother about had a cow when she discovered that J does not know his blood type, and has been bugging us to get it checked ASAP. Blood typing has taken such a strong hold on society that they will prescribe diets, therapies, and even relationship advice based on your blood type! "Blood type horoscopes" are common features in media outlets, and employers may use blood type in hiring decisions. I personally don't take much...
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Studies have long shown that people of different cultures act differently, but a paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology indicates that culture even affects our cognition. Take a look at the images above and try to interpret the overall emotion of the picture. Do your eyes linger on the center man in the foreground? Or do you consider the people in the background more?
“North Americans try to identify the single important thing that is key to making a decision,” explains Dr. Takahiko Masuda, the study’s author, over the phone from his office at the University of Alberta. “In East Asia they really care about the context.” He studied the eye movement of Americans and Japanese when analyzing a... Continue reading
I may be pregnant and hormonal, but I TOTALLY CRIED watching this Google commercial and I'm not ashamed to admit it. This video holds special significance to anyone like me whose parents sacrificed everything to immigrate to a foreign country — a land where they did not know the language, where they were (and continue to be) ostracized for being a minority, where they work 80-hour weeks in the service industry, where they do not take a single vacation in YEARS — in order to provide good education, more opportunities and a better life for their children. I love you, umma and appa. Via Angry Asian Man. ...
Continue readingAsk a Korean! has posted a great (translated) article on a Korean reporter's comparison between Apple and Samsung in respect to their latest smartphones. After omitting some content that I believed not to be as relevant for purposes of this post, here is a good-sized excerpt:
iPhone users, instead of playing number games, create a word-of-mouth ad that says "You just know the difference once you use it." This is because Apple is a company that cares about how we use a machine... Continue reading