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United Nations

United Nations is the international organization built in 1945 to keep the safety and support other countries on the government and society.

California Roll

The first california roll was made in 1963, at Sushi bar of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles by the sushi craftsman Ichiro Mashita. He made it for the foreigners that removed seaweed from maki-zushi. California roll doesn't have raw fishes and it has seaweed inside, to foreigners can also eat maki-zushi without resistance. It is famous all over the world now.

Green tea frappuccino

The coffee shop 'STARBUCKS' put green tea (matcha) frappuccino on the menu. It is loved from drink lovers all over the world. Since it is blended with milk and ice, the taste became mild so that people who cannot drink green tea can also drink it.

Soy sauce flavored popcorn

Japanese like soy sauce, and it is used by almost all Japanese food. Japanese company called Japan Frito Lay made popcorn with flavor of soy sauce so that the popcorn will be nearer thing to Japanese too. Now, it is spread out the world, and eaten by many people.

European Unions

European Unions is a political relationship between 28 european countries, created after World War II. Its main goal is to promote human rights .

SAKURA SAKURA rewritten by foreign composer

SAKURA SAKURA is a most famous traditional Japanese song. In 2008, foreign composer called Ray E. Cramer rewrite this song for wind ensemble. The song doesn't miss the Japanese traditional sounds, but it also contained good parts of wind ensemble.

Takoyaki made in Thailand

Takoyaki is Japanese traditional food shaped like a ball, has a piece of octopus in it. In Japan, we usually eat it with salty-sweet sauce, but in Thailand, they eat it with chili sauce and put some spices in Takoyaki to make it more Thai food.

Tokyo Disneyland and Disneysea

In Tokyo, there are two Disney theme parks. Tokyo Disneyland and Disneysea, built in 1983. They took good parts of original Disneyland, but they also have its original shows and festivals. It is because there are many Japanese festivals that U.S. doesn't have or the way of celebration is different. They did this for Japanese to make them much more fun.

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In 2008, African Kimono, known as Wafrican Kimono was made by the group called Wafrica -Africa and Wa means Japan in Japanese- that had Mouangue, African designer who went to Japan for 18 years and Japanese Kimono-makers. Wafrican Kimono has blight colors combinations. It cannot see in Japanese traditional Kimono. However, it is good difference, because young people in Japan wanted something different from the neutral tones' Kimono. Also, the printed wax cotton does not exist in traditional Kimono. By making Wafrican Kimono, they found many new ways of making Kimono. Mouangue said that making Wafrican Kimono wasn't actually making Kimono. For him, it was just drawing the connections between two cultures. If he made Wafrican Kimono, it wasn't allowed by the people. However, now it is time for changing. This opened the door of new Kimono.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations

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http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/frappuccino-blended-beverages/tazo-green-tea-frappuccino-blended-cr%C3%A8me

http://europa.eu/about-eu/index_en.htm

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I think the culture blending will make a world one in the future. I mean that there will be the differences still, because the histories that we walked are different. However, the differences that makes the cultures relationships bad will decreases in the future. For example, Safavid Empire,and Byzantine Empire took ideas from other cultures and they became better society. Now, there are many wars and division between countries. There was a successful example in the past, so it can be changed in the future too. The culture blending will take the ideas from both side’s people and it might solve the problems between the cultures.

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I think the culture blending gives us positive influences. It combines two or more cultures, meaning that only good points from each cultures is kept. This makes those cultures better because the culture blending tells us new food, clothes, arts, ways of thinking, and etc. These things give people new ideas, and new movement in the area. If the culture blending occurs, more people are going to know about those cultures, and more people will touch those cultures. Even if it is not the culture that related to the blending, they still know more if there is a big culture blending. The culture blending is the good chance to know other cultures too. The culture blending will be a trigger to the next step.

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Safavid Empire

Shah Abbas welcomed christians into his empire. It causes Europeans to come in, and because of that, industry, trade, and art exchange grew between the empire and European nations.  He brought hundredth of Chinese artisans to his Esfahan. They worked with Safavids artists, intricate metalwork, miniature painting, calligraphy, glasswork, tile work, and potty. This collaboration gave rise to artwork that blended Chinese and Persian ideas. These decorations beautified the many mosques, palaces, and marketplaces. The biggest influence from blending with Europeans was demand of Persian carpet. This helped Persian carpet from local craft to national industry. He moved capital to constantinople because it was the central trade city.

Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire. Most of the people lived there were Greeks, but Egyptians, Syrians, Arabs, Armenians jews, Persians, slaves, and Turks lived in the empire too. The cultural blending occurred because of its capital Constantinople had a cultural diffusion. It was a center of trade, and it was located in the crossroads of Europe and Asia. It was blending of ancient Greece and the cultures of the near east. Byzantine culture was more strongly influenced by the Hellenistic culture and was many ways more Asiatic than European, but had the political and legal structures of ancient Rome. In the resolution of cultural blending, it preserved Greek art, literature, philosophy and science. It produced their own works of history and literature. Also, cyrillic alphabet became foundation of the slavic written language.

Chinese and civilization in Japan

In the 1st centuries A.D., Japanese imported a lot of ideas, techniques of production, the way to control the people, and objects from China. The introduction of the Chinese script in the 4th century was a major turning point in Japanese cultural development. After they adapted to these changes, they started to use the things that they learned from Chinese to build a civilization of their own. New patterns of rice growing and handicraft production made Japan stronger on the economic. Writing with the Chinese characters made it possible for the Yamato to begin to build a real bureaucracy and so the stronger control over clan heads and the farmers. The use of the Chinese words made Japanese to learn all manners. Introduce of Buddhism also changed Japan a lot.