Jason

= Jason =

==== **At first, I was grateful to attentive reaction from all of you. It made me more confident and supported me with lots of encouragement. At the same time, I also appreciated enthusiastic interaction during Q&A time, it really helped me to rethink which points I have missed and which concerns I have had to pay much attention through this interactive communication.** ====

==== **Additionally, as my first time to give an English presentation regarding such a serious topic, especially the topic which is related to Taiwan's culture and you are all familiar with as the same as me, it was definitely a significant challenge for me and hopefully I overcame in the end.** ==== ==== **In order to make this topic more attractive, to some extents, I tried to combine some traditional mindsets and contemporary viewpoints and also described it from my personal experience. However, I can't extend too much in limited time, so I just put some general ideas in well-accepted structure.** ====

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. The followings are comments from the classmates & me. To present their comments precisely, **I do not change any of their wordings**. Please take the comments positively. J

Read the comments carefully. Some comments are contradictory; you should think about those comments more carefully to figure out the reasons. ** After reading the comments, write down your feedback to the audience. **

1. Very good presentation! 2. Logical presentation. 3. Introduce the report with abundant information and contemporary situation in TW. 4. Clear presentation and really makes me think deeper of this topic. 5. Good Q&A! 6. Very confident. 7. Being nature and making some interactions will be perfect! 8. Try not to say sorry during formal presentation.

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1. **Definition of Culture** When it comes to culture, many ideas will come in to people’s minds. From my standpoint, I prefer to describe culture as the way people live. To put it another way, living style makes it very different across cultures. You can easily tell people from other one based on their living ways, including languages, clothes, architectures, recreation, etc. Therefore, the way people used to in their daily lives shows the track of what is the culture like.

2. **Topic** Culture Continuity and Its Transformation: Creative Culture in Taiwan

3. **Rationales** In order to gain deeper insights into Taiwan’s culture, one way is to understand how people there live and what they really value. With increasing of creative culture industry, it definitely shows the evidence that how people conserve the traditional culture and make it flourish again. Nowadays, creative cultures are gradually considered to be necessary and essential, especially those cultures with regional features. However, globalization makes different cultures become more homogeneous to some extents. With that in mind, more and more people start to rethink their original cultures and thus want to change them creatively. Hence, in terms of creative culture in Taiwan, we can learn it in a very different way.

4. **Preview** The presentation will be divided into several parts, and the details are as follows. (1) Introduce what is the creative culture and how it works. (2) To put Taiwan into the case, why it really needs to concern the creative culture. (3) Take some real examples in Taiwan. (4) Try to find some advantages of creative culture and its opposite sides. (5) Hold my view of Taiwan’s creative culture and give expectation.

5. **Significance** Most of people, also I am included, easily take for granted that the way we live and the value we believe every day. With this opportunity, it is the best time for us to learn more about our culture and take some actions to conserve it. Culture continuity and its transformation are also becoming an inevitable trend that we have to face. By this chance, we can try to figure out new ideas through brainstorming and taking a look at how other people do.

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