Qiyun's Virtual Travel Blog

  When watching Detective Conan ,  I was astonished at their school uniform .                                                           * * * * *    Different schools have different styles. * * * * * * * * * *  Even kindergarten students wear a uniform.  * * * * * 🏃‍♀️ 🏃  🏃‍♀️ 🏃  🏃‍♀️ 🏃   ⚽️  🏀  Sports uniform  ⚽️  🏀  🏃‍♀️ 🏃  🏃‍♀️ 🏃  🏃‍♀️ 🏃 If you don't get the point, next, I'll show you  👕·   👕·  👕     China's school uniform.   👕·   👕·  👕 They are mostly oversize (not for fashion purpose) sportswear, - - - - - - - - - - Loose and baggy,   - - - - - - - - - - 👕  🎒   👕  🎒  usually bright red/blue plus white,   👕  🎒   👕  🎒  🙋🏻‍♂️ 🙋🏻‍♀️  🙋🏻‍♂️ 🙋🏻‍♀️  Same for boys and girls,  🙋🏻‍♂️ 🙋🏻‍♀️  🙋🏻‍♂️ 🙋🏻‍♀️ 📕  📘  📙  📋 Same for PE lessons and others,  📋  📙  📘  📕 Most Chinese students regard them as ugly and outdated . And most of them are like me, feel envious of Japanese students' school uniform. ✏️ ✏️ ✏️ ✏️  Why

Wherever we travel, the language barrier is always a BIG problem.  It prevents us from learning deeper and engage fully in our tourist destination.  In my last blog, I talked about the Kansai dialect and accent spoken by Osaka people, which troubles lots of tourists and leads to place essentialism.  Not only foreign tourists want to learn more about the local language, but local people are also eager in learning what travellers speak and mean.  As someone who is really fascinated with language learning, the idea of a short-term bilateral language learning program comes into my mind! Additionally, during the program, participants would also   exchange their customs, culture, or something more basic, like their daily life routine or home cooking to each other. For travellers to Osaka,  usually spent lots of time sightseeing and shopping ,  and it would be HARD and UNREASONALBLE to attract or ask them to join the  “ learning activity ” for several full days.  *     *     *    

Earlier in my blog, I mentioned I’m a   FAN of Hattori Heiji .   He is a detective with his unique Osaka spirit , while his accent has always been laughed at by other characters, as well as the audience. This is what I’m going to discuss today ——the misrepresentation of Osaka . *    *    *    *    *     *    *    *    *         *     *    *         * Many outsiders ,  including Japanese, tend to regard Osaka people’s accent or way of talking as funny , odd , and extremely out-of-date .  In some Japanese comedy shows, Osaka accent is used as a trick for laughter .               👓   🔎  I n  Detective Conan ,  🔍   👓 🎬   💁‍♀️   Judy , an American teacher, mistook Heiji as a foreigner because of his strange accent .  🎬   💁‍♂️ Heiji explained to her half proudly and half angrily that Osaka accent is also one kind of Japanese, which is called Kansai-ben ,  while Conan kept giggling.                                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

L ast week, I introduced the signal of Osaka—— Tsutenkaku , while I also mentioned many Osaka people give their special position to Tsutenkaku, the Osaka Castle . Here is a picture of it, but wait, why is it on a manhole cover ?   🍃 ----------------------    👘.   👘.   👘.  👘.  👘.  👘.  ---------------------- 🍃 T hinking of manhole covers, dirty and stink odor come into our mind. However , here, and only in Japan, the manhole cover is joint with painting and artistic design and becomes a beautiful scenery.  While street art usually has its essence of illegalness and resistance (Millner, 2017), Japanese manhole covers are supported by all parties——the government, artistes, local citizens, and tourists.                                                  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W alking on the Japanese streets, you can infer where you are even without looking up, only by relying on the manhole cover (Richarz, 2019).  The s