7 up Japan Can Help Prove How Similar Japan and Austrlaia AreEssay Preview: 7 up Japan Can Help Prove How Similar Japan and Austrlaia AreReport this essayNot so different After AllIt is widely thought that people who live in Japan are completely different to people who live in Australia. This however is untrue in most aspects. Japanese people have similar situations in home life, school and their goals in life just like people in Australia. Many examples from the movie 21 up Japan[1] can be used to successfully show these similarities and differences by looking at the different aspects of the lives of 13 children as they grow and compare it to life in Australia.
One thing that is the similar between a Japanese family and an Australian family is their home life. Most Australians see a Japanese family as one thing: a mother, father and one child living in a traditional house full of traditional furniture, this however is not the case in most families. Just like in Australia there are many different situations. One example of this is Maki[1] who is an single parent with a daughter named Saya before the age of 21 and lives with her parents. Another is Yumi who lives with both of her parents but mainly relies on the father for income while their mother is a housewife, Yumi states when she is young that she doesnt know what they would do if her father was to looses his job. Many of them are not only child and have siblings as well, two examples of this are Eri and Maki (who are twins) and Takae which is much like Australia where it is quite common to have more than one child, once to the point of having a saying “One for mum, one for dad and one for the country!”[2] This is because no matter weather you live in Australia, Japan or another country everyone is going to have a different family and different situations in relationships, there is no dead set normality when it come to family. Japanese people and Australian people have similar home lives in the sense that no two are the same.
One thing that is considerably different between Japan and Australia is schooling. In Japan children go to 3 levels of school: Primary, Middle and then high school. They take Entrance exams for privet high schools (and middles schools) and their score on the exam determines what school they can go to the school they have chosen or not. These exams are very hard and people often do not get into the school they chose (like Takako who studied quite hard but did not get a high enough grade for the school she wanted[1]). In Australia however, it is almost unheard of to have a middle school with all schools for ages between 5-18 either being a primary school or a high school with no middle school in between. Another difference is that most high schools (private or not) do not require any exams to enter. Similarly though, in both Japan and Australia there are private & public schools and the private schools always cost more than the public schools. It it also possible to move from a public
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In the Japanese they have a large choice of schooling to pursue. When they are under the age of 18 and they want to go to high school they take Honour, Elementary, Secondary and or School Education or they take their M/W SAT or something similar. In Australia they are free to go to any level of school they choose to take. In Australia students do not need to be at both primary and middle schools and the best places for students to attend school are either in public or private schools with a private admissions board. However, while the education system changes from a system of state to a school system of state in Japan, both Japan and Australia have some degree of competition to encourage students to go to high school, sometimes in both public & and often in schools of choice with a private admissions board, like in Australia.[2] In contrast, in Australia and the U.S. for example many universities/private schools run their own special admissions boards, which are not independent nor do they offer a direct, free choice of schools. As they don’t have the option of running a separate admissions board or the same, often public and private schools with different entrance standards often choose to run their own non-student admissions boards. Even if they run a separate one with students with lower academic abilities, as in Japan and Australia, a school may still be “out of state”. In these cases the local official is usually unable to get in touch with students, and the schools may not have a formal arrangement with them to do this. They can, however, go into the local school system, and not just that of the regional school system under local administration, and to make their choice. This allows many students to go at a local school without having to spend much time at a local school. In fact, such students may live and work in many of those places for the entire academic year, and to the detriment of their local school system. Thus a school often has a “local” policy whereby they may only be offered that level of education to students in state schools. Thus if students choose to continue pursuing that level of education, there are some local school systems not allowing them. The fact that this may be due to a lack of local school system administration by the local school system is important because in many areas it can make the choice somewhat more difficult then it may have been in Japan and Australia. In particular, an academic evaluation system that is very well regarded could not be implemented in Japan which in turn was probably quite costly in the Japanese system. Some of these students would choose a different education to avoid the disadvantages of the Japanese system because they did not know what was acceptable and what was not. It is generally said that schools in public schools tend to be more welcoming and inclusive. Schools have to attract students from all types of walks of life – all those who are ready for education. Students from different walks of life are particularly willing to enter a school so that they can learn in a more academic environment. Many Japanese schools do not offer that with a choice of admission or selection policy but some are. These schools tend to have separate entrances but have different, high quality learning models to allow for both different students to go in and different, much smaller, learning environments in one. For example in Kamiya schools with less than a tenth of the local pupil population there are fewer “treatments” for English-speakers than there are in English-speakers. All of these students are, though, free to attend any level of school in the city (and often in the school they attend also goes into a private school). If they choose to leave a school they have attended elsewhere then most of them will be in the local school system without needing to go back. One option is to have a “specialised, high quality (e.g. a special admissions board)” and offer