Oral Blog Entry Four - Picture Comparison 1

Both of these pictures are about markets. The first one obviously is a supermarket, and the other one is like a traditional market. There are some differences between these two markets. For example, the environment in the supermarket is much cleaner than the traditional market, and all foods in supermarket are various and classified so well that you can find what you want easily. On the other hand, the traditional market is untidier than the supermarket and sometimes they do not label prices clearly. However, some people like me still prefer buying foods in the traditional market because it is usually cheaper and you can even bargain with sellers over the price. Besides, the sellers in traditional markets are more patient and knowledgeable about the foods they sell than salesclerks in supermarkets. For instance, when I go to traditional markets, I can ask the sellers how to cook the meat I buy or what I need. It is difficult to find this kind of interaction in the supermarkets. Both of these two markets have their own advantages, so how to decide to go which one depends on what you need.

Oral Blog Entry Three - Diploma Lecture 1

Beyond Buzzy Bees and Kiwifruits

⊙Kiwi symbols
At first, the lecturer introduced some famous New Zealand symbols such as buzzy bees, kiwifruits, beehive, kiwi birds, jandals, silver fern and Green stone. In this section, I have two questions about jandal and kiwi:
1. How can jandals become a kind of formal shoes in school or other public place? It is impolite for people to wear them in public place or they are not allowed to wear at school in most countries, but in New Zealand you can almost see people wearing it everywhere.
2. New Zealanders call themselves as “kiwi”, but do they also think Chinese people or islanders who were born in New Zealand as kiwi?

⊙Liberal multiculturalism：
Multiculturalism means the belief that it is important and good to include people or ideas from many different countries, races, or religions. The lecturer and most people think that New Zealand has liberal multiculturalism. I wonder what reasons construct this culture style.