Hello everyone! This will be the last post I will be taking about the film "Bend it like Beckham".
There is a scene that Jess and her team change together in the dressing room. All of the other people looks confident changing in front of other people and they seemed like they do not care. However, Jess seems to feel uncomfortable with it and she changes by covering with her t-shirt.
It also have something common in me because Japanese are not confident, too. It is not because we are shy, it is just because we are not used to it. Japanese changing room always has a separated room for each person and we can change there. It is not usual to not have the separation. I thought that these building differences also makes a cultural differences.
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Hello everyone!
Again, i am going to talk about the film "Bend it like Beckham".
This time is about how Jess dress like. Because of her scar on her thigh and her culture she doesn't want to show her legs. She wears long pants at the beginning. Even when she goes to the tryout for the team she wears long pants as you can see from the image above.
When her mother sees her wearing a shorts, her mother says "I don't want you running around half naked in front of a guy." It is a culture problem that she cannot show her skin a lot.
In my country, there are no culture related to not show skin. How about your country? let me know!

Hello everyone!
I want to write about a another cultural difference in the film "Bend it like Beckham"!
I've already wrote about the gender role of female so this one is about how the girls are expected to act.
There is a scene that Jess is playing football with her friends and the boy carries Jess. They are just playing but Jess's mom sees it and she will be very angry with how she is acting. Firstly she gets angry about her clothes, which I'm planning to write in the next post and secondly, she gets angry that Jess is too close to other guys. 
In India may be the women does not get too close to a guy who she is not in relationship with. In my home country, there are less situation to touch someone. How we greet and how we come in contact does not involve much touching, so if a women and a male were close we think that they are in relationship. So I kind of understand what Jess's mom was angry about.
So again, this is a culture thing.
I wonder how other people from different country thought about this scene! Please leave a comment.

The role of women is different in cultures. The film "Bend it like Beckham" shows the challenge of a girl going against to the gender role.


The main character, Jess has a dream to be a football player. However, her parents doesn't like that. She is an Indian living in English and her family has an perspectives from Indian cultural. Her family wants Jess to marry a Indian guy and want Jess to be the perfect wife who can cook and manage the house. Not playing football outside.


I think that women should also have a job what she wants. Jess tries hard to play football and sometimes too focused on playing football she lies to her parents. I think Jess's parents should had understand how much she loves football and allows her to play, even if it is against their culture.


However, culture is a faith and is a common sense to the person. I think to change or against the culture will be very difficult. In this film the parents and Jess's sister couldn't understand. But at the last is to trust the person and their heart.

I want to know how other people thought about this film! Please leave a comment :)

What digital native major group am I in?
I thhink I am a enthusiastic participants. Most of my free time are spent in front of the computer or phone. Watching Youtube, checking several SNS and surfing the internet. Also when I'm in outside I use my phone to search things and recently I turn on my phone to find  out the music that is played in the store. Where ever I am I have my digital with me.

What is my relationship with the technology?
I am a tourist in the digital world. I have an interest to the world of the digital, however, there are many thing I don't know and also I'm not obsessed or addicted so I don't live in the digital world, I am a tourist. Also I don't want to be addicted and I will be warning my self if I was spending too much time in the digital world. 

Through the article.
Through the article I thought that digital are changing the life of the young ones or ones who spend time on the digital. They are all very useful. They could save our time and build new knowledge by searching everything. However, if the use are wrong digital will take our time and make a lack of knowledge about other thing, this happens when people gets too addicted and cannot focus on what they should. Multi tasking is what the digital made it more often. Listening to music while doing homework and also texting it isn't productive.

We did a voice thread conversation of Jane and grace.

https://voicethread.com/share/5166280/

This book "Throwaway daughter" is about a Chinese girl "Dong-mei" who was thrown away by her parents.She was adopted by a Canadian parents and she grown up in Canada with them and  "Megan" Dong-mei's new sister. She experiences many things through the book. Conflicts with her Canadian mom and dad, difference in appearance, agony that she will experienced and sadness that she feels to her real parents because she think they thrown her. This book was interesting because in each chapter the storyteller changes.

This book taught me the strong connection of "Family." Even Chun-mei was forced to throw away Dong-mei she still loved her, even they were apart she wanted to meet her all the time. I was moved when Chun-mei went back to the place she left Dong-mei to get her back but she was gone. Also, Jane and Dong-mei's connection was strong and I felt how much Jane loves Dong-mei. Jane wanted Dong-mei to stick to her roots and she tried so hard to make Dong-mei to like China. And when Dong-mei finally decided to go to China, Jane was not happy since she thought that she will loose her. After all Jane accepted and I thought that is how much Jane loves her.

Furthermore, it taught me to think hard before deciding things. Chun-mei and Old Revolutionaru Chen regretted what they did in the past. Dong-mei seemed she forgive them, but still the pain that Dong-mei had all through her life will not be erased. In any event I will think carefully before doing things to not regret in future.

I liked this book, the topic of this book sounds really serious and boring, but actually it is not and it is very enjoyable and moving to read.

I experienced many things with Dong-mei, since I saw her in the photo when she was 6 month old. I am really glad now that it was Dong-mei that the agency sent to us. Not anyone else but Dong-mei. I remember that when I first heard may be she is deaf, me and my husband got really concerned about it. And we even thought of giving up her. But we didn't. I thought if my first child Megan was deaf did we gave up her? The answer was "No" and my husband agree with that conclusion. I now can't think of giving up Dong-mei and having another child. First when I hold her I was really happy and excited that I could feel my baby that I was only looking from the photo and how will she going to grow up. Also I was worried about when she grow up. Is she going to ask about her real parents and the place she was born. I really wanted to know the roots of her and be prepared about what she is going to ask. So, I got upset when they didn't told me any information. I felt very pleased when the Chinese women came to us and talked about Dong-mei. Even she couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak Chinese we understood and I thanked her. And I know that Dong-mei is also appreciating her too. She wasn't comfortable about her roots and others. She just wanted a new name, new life and not her roots. She even didn't want us to call her "Dong-mei". However, I can see her being positive about her home country and she is being "okay" with her roots. It is what I wanted all the time since when we asked her roots and had a thought that if Dong-mei will love her roots it will be more good for everyone. However, it caused me pain a little. I didn't want to share her and I didn't want my daughter to be taken. Of course still I think loving her roots are good for her, but she is my daughter and I can not give or share with strangers.
I think that is how much I love her. I didn't gave birth to her and she was never been in my stomach, but she is my precious daughter.