Drama:

Choosing to act as an individual or acting in a collective.

Story:

Everybody is culturally motivated to act as an individual or in a collective. This is a choice that has to be made over and over again, in different situations. Individualism cannot exist without collectivism and vice versa. People have to grow as an individual in order to be important in a collective. Continue reading Do you dare, (IPoC Taicang 2014 Nov, group 1)

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• At the start of life, everyone is endowed with the most true and pure nature, but with time passing, the growth of self-awareness, there are more and more material needs and spiritual desire encroached on our heart, we also play many social roles, life created a lot of masks to camouflage ourselves, when material has been beyond our real heart, people tend to lose themselves.

Continue reading LOOK (IPoC Taicang 2014 Nov, group 2)

Drama

Every individual has its own way of thinking. Normally this is not visible from the outside; we want to make this visible, so that people will get a better understanding of each other.
Continue reading Train of Thought (IPoC Taicang 2014 Nov, group 3)

DRAMA

In Chinese culture there is often an imbalance of connections between children and their parents. Parents pressure their children into working hard, but come from a different generation background. Children have problems communicating their discomfort about this situation because of the imbalance. They feel like their parents speak a different language, and it is hard to even express their love for each other. Only when this connection becomes balanced again, the barrier between children and their parents might disappear and emotions can be expressed freely with mutual understanding. Continue reading Let’s talk (IPoC Taicang 2014 Nov, group 4)

Story

China is a rapidly developing and therefore changing country. This fast change causes a cultural gap in between the younger and older generation. China houses both the traditional culture as the culture heavily influenced by western society. They differ in values, thinking and lifestyle.  At the moment those cultures clash and are ‘fighting’ for a place in society. But in the end the cultures are expected to form a new, modern Chinese culture with both traditional and western influences. The people of China should not be afraid to form this new culture but embrace both the new and old influences. Continue reading Inkstone of culture (IPoC Taicang 2014 Nov, group 5)