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Japanese-American Cultural Diffusion Presentation
Process and Overview- Intro from Matt
History (of our project and of JACD)- Explain our first areas of
interest (why we choose to do history and that we choose topics that
each person was interested in). Also, why we trashed the
history/politics, economics, media, etc. idea.
Time period we chose (1932-1999) and why we didn’t start with
Commodore Perry
How is our site organized? We chose case studies instead of themes.
Click on mission statement so they can see our basic idea. Introduce
our thesis: “Every cultural aspect that is diffused/exchanged between Japan and
America is affected by both sides due to the underlying cultural differences
between the two nations.”
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Methodology- We chose 5 different topics to begin our research.
Then we chose specific examples to immerse ourselves into the
cultures and get a view from both sides. We took a wide variety so
we are not too focused and we leave room for open holes. In each
example we touch on elements of our five major themes.
Why is our site different? Discuss our level of analysis, our focus,
why our focus is different from other sites. Is it something people will
go back to often or use once?
Specific areas of study, why we chose them, and how they lend
towards the thesis
Anime
Baseball
Food
Godzilla
Kawaii
The Pill
Video Games
“Struggles and insights, failings and triumphs, and what you--and
we—can learn from them.” Lets discuss our process of collaboration
ie) Unifying interest in cultural diffusion, yet different topics of
interest. Helpful that we have literary specialists and technological
specialists. Discuss our difficulty in forming a thesis because we all
are picky about the specific words we choose. We started with one
thesis—trashed it—and came back to it in the end (because that is
what we focused our research on).
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