Life’s Details – Japanese School Life Peek #11

Posted by kairospix (Singapore, Singapore) on 26 May 2008 in People & Portraits and Portfolio.

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Here’s a shot of three students wearing different traditional ethinic clothing of different cultures in Singapore.

The guy in the middle was wearing traditional clothing for Indians and the extreme right chap was wearing that of the Malays. No prizes for who was wearing the traditional clothing for Chinese.

Part of the educational aims for students in Japane was having a more internationalised out-look and hence the Japanese Government created the Japan-Exchange Teaching (JET) programme which would expose the Japanese students to teachers from other cultures around the world. They call such a process is called “Internationlization”.

So my first meeting and lesson with each new class would always be one about Singapore and her various cultures. The students would always get a kick out of watching three of their classmates wearing these costumes and have a good time learning about other cultures.

Maybe we need to have such internationalisation programmes in classes all over the world so that the younger generation can learn to understand, appreciate and accept such cultural differences. Surely this is another small step towards world peace?

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Location - Chikuma City, Nagono Prefecture, Japan
Camera - Canon Powershot G1
Lens - Canon 7.0 - 21.0mm (approx. 35 - 105mm)
Capture date - 28 November 2001
Aperture - f3.2
Shutter speed - 1/50 sec
Shooting mode - Aperture Priority
Exposure bias - 0EV
Metering mode - Center-weighted Average
ISO - 100
Focal length - 7.0mm (approx. 35mm)
Stabilization - Hand held
Lighting - Indoor Artificial Flourescent Light
Flash - Not Fired
Post-processing - PS & LRoom processed
Cropped - Yes

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