Coming into this project, I was very unsure of which topic of Asian influence I wanted to dive deeper into and explore for myself. I bounced through a few ideas, before I became settled into exploring Anime, which has alluded my uncultured grasp. So, I was excited to take on the task which I chose. […]

The first video is a recreation of “Orange Naho Falls In Love With Kakeru”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wRlaZcm0s “The second video is a recreation of Orange: Mirai Ending English Subtitle”: https://youtu.be/g2JSNS8vgsE?t=110 (1:50 – 3:15) Japanese culture is known for having a wide range of Anime series, but few people are aware of the categories it can be classified […]

To look at my progress of become a better auto ethnographer, I will examine ‘Veganism in Asia’, which investigated how South Korea adopts the term ‘veganism’ and my experience with that vague definition. This blog post didn’t quite follow Ellis’s writing as much as the previous post before it did, as I only drew from […]

more specifically South Korea (◠﹏◠✿) < After traveling to South Korea for almost a month and beginning a journey to consume less meat in my daily diet, I was finding it difficult to avoid meat as part of the meals I was consuming throughout the day. For lunch, the easiest thing to find on a […]

This week will be going over the assigned reading, Ellis et al (2011) about autoethnography. I hope to explain this reading in conjunction to my own understanding of autoethnography and also link it to this week viewing of Akira (1988). To define my understanding of autoethnography from Ellis’s writing, is to state that an autoethnography […]

Right out of my comfort zone. This class is definitely bringing many firsts to me. I have not written blogs, explored WordPress, had a Twitter account or watched any Korean movies. So, let’s start. So live tweeting was a very strange experience. Like talking non stop throughout a movie to a group of people is […]