https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt en-us 2023-09-19 05:00:06 UTC 2023-10-01 12:02:23 UTC hello@padlet.com saev2026_2 https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2725563816 Chinese cuisine has had a significant impact on other cultures around Asia, and even in other continents. Some common foods in China include rice, soy sauce, noodles, tea, chilli oil, and tofu. As well as this, eating tools including chopsticks, and the wok have become more commonly seen around the world. Street food is commonly seen around China, as it became popular during the Tang dynasty, and stayed popular until the present day. There are several preferences over seasoning and cooking methods, which are often dependent on social class, religion, background, and ethnic group. Available ingredients also have a large impact on food, like location, including mountains, rivers, forests, and deserts, which all change cuisine.

While China’s norms regarding food have absolutely been influenced by the US, and other external cultures, China is also managing to preserve its culture. Using the same example of McDonalds, preservation of China’s culture can be seen through glocalisation, where McDonalds has adapted their menu in order to appeal to the tastes of people who are used to eating traditionally Chinese cuisine. While introducing China to new cuisines, McDonalds is also keeping traditional food on the table, ensuring that traditional techniques of cooking are not lost. 





]]> 2023-09-29 04:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2725563816 saev2026_2 https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727389032 The first thing that comes to most peoples mind when thinking about American cuisine is usually fried, fatty, and often unhealthy fast foods, including classics like burgers, hot dogs, pancakes, and fried chicken. While these dishes are very popular, the USA has also been influenced by foods of many different cultures around the world, including Germany, Britain, Italy, France, and more, as a result of its rich history of immigration and cultural diversity. American food is typically stereotyped as consisting of mostly fast foods, however it is also a melting pot of different flavours and influences from worldwide. 

With an increase of globalisation, specifically McDonaldisation, China has seen a significant shift in the way food is eaten. Chinese methods of cooking food have traditionally relied on steaming, boiling, which all call for lower amounts of oil, which is recommended by nutritionists, seeing as many types of oil are not healthy. With McDonalds diffusing their cultural norms into China, traditional eating patterns have gradually been lost over time, and higher calorie foods are becoming increasingly more commonly consumed. Younger generations are typically the most affected by this, as they are more pressured to follow western norms in an attempt to stay up to date with internationalisation. Young people’s food preferences have adapted over time to prefer McDonalds, and so the relationship between younger generations and McDonalds has increased. Professor Watson from Harvard University has expressed that there have been significant changes in Chinese cuisines’ as a result of consumption of McDonalds, stating “Critics claim that the rapid spread of McDonalds and its fast-food rivals undermines indigenous cuisines and helps create a homogeneous, global culture” (p. 122). 


]]> 2023-10-01 11:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727389032 saev2026_2 https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727389677 American ways of dress are usually centred around 3 things, freedom of expression, comfort, and functionality. Americans often wish to stand out and forget the opinions of others. 
Often, Americans go for a more simple style of dress, and even on catwalks of fashion houses, there is still little prevalence of sophisticated outfits. For many centuries, Americans have favoured clothing such as jeans, t-shirts, shirts and dresses, and from then up until now, these clothing options have remained in fashion. There is a huge amount of Unisex clothing in the US, which goes to show that simple, practical and flexible styles are preferred among the population. With its practicality and simplicity, American ways of dress have become increasingly popular among other cultures, resulting in cultural homogenization. 

Western clothing saw an increase in popularity in China throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Ways of dress originating in Western countries, like the US, have become significantly more popular. There were periods of time where the wearing of Western clothing was shunned, and frowned upon, and more traditional clothing, like Chinese peasant clothing was more popular and chosen over Western clothing. Over more recent years however, popularity of Western clothing has been on the rise again. This can be seen in the significant increase of popularity for American brands like Nike and Adidas, and the notable changes in dressing forms, seeing T-shirts and jeans becoming a lot more prevalent among Chinese youth. 




]]> 2023-10-01 11:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727389677 saev2026_2 https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727391028 Traditional Chinese clothing, called Hanfu, include characteristics such as wide, loose sleeves, loose and layered looks, and clothes that often contain a couple garments like loose open cross-collared pieces, long wrapped skirts and open cross-collared robes. Traditional clothing from the Tang dynasty kept a similar style, but encouraged more colours to be put into clothing pieces, and more time spent deciding outfits. Materials commonly used include wool, silk, and linen, where silk was mainly only used for higher class people seeing as it was very expensive. Gold and yellow were also only to be used by the royal family, and over time, they became symbolistic of imperial power. All other colours excluding these were free to be used by remaining social classes. The People’s Republic of China recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups in addition to the Han, meaning that Chinese dress consists of several different types of clothing, which were used by people from different Chinese ethnic minority groups. 

There is a growing popularity for traditional, Hanfu, or Han-style clothing, after it was not commonly worn for hundreds of years. Han clothing styles have adapted and changed to accommodate for the changes in people's clothing tastes, however Hanfu worn by newlyweds and movie stars attracted attention from younger generations, and encouraged them to dress in such ways once again. This drew significant attention from the public, and ended up in the media, which further encouraged more to begin dressing in the traditional styles once more. 
Han-style attire has become popular over the past ten years as a result of the nation's emphasis on cultural pride. A picturesque area in Sanya, Hainan Province, declared that anyone wearing Hanfu will be permitted free access to the venue, and a city in Henan Province organised four Hanfu festivals. Chengdu, Sichuan Province, also hosted Hanfu fashion shows. More than 4 billion pages have been viewed on Weibo alone thanks to websites and articles published by Hanfu enthusiasts. Hanfu's increasing appeal has stoked interest in other traditional cultural practices among the general population. For instance, several after-school classes are now available to teach kids the Sanzijing (Three Character Classic) and Baijiaxing (Hundred Family Names), two timeless works that have long served as textbooks for "enlightenment education" in China.


]]> 2023-10-01 11:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727391028 saev2026_2 https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727392391 Globalisation is definitely having an impact on culture, and causing all cultures to begin having similar styles, as a result of cultural imperialism from the USA. While glocalisation and other methods of preserving a country's culture can be seen, dominant, and “trendy” culture from the USA has made its way into many different cultures and has resulted in a large amount of cultural homogenisation and loss of traditional methods of eating, dressing, and several other aspects of culture. ]]> 2023-10-01 11:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727392391 saev2026_2 https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727393686 Cultural globalisation is defined as the sharing of culture, values, meanings and other cultural aspects to different cultures. China has rich culture that dates back thousands of years from a variety of different dynasties and time periods, however in recent years, China, and other countries, have experienced changes in culture as a result of cultural globalisation, especially globalisation of culture originating in the United States. This brings up the question: Is globalisation causing all countries to have the same culture? ]]> 2023-10-01 12:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/saev2026_2/o93m2fvw5ub9kmdt/wish/2727393686