CULTURE-RELATED TOPIC

  Even though living in different culture is quite challenging for international students at the beginning, it would be a good experiences for them. I’ve experienced a lot of Australian cultures and found some favorite costumes. In this blog, I’d like to write about Australian customs which I like the most: hug.

  One of my favorite customs in Australia is hug. Many people in this country hug a lot and lot as a purpose of greeting, apology or gratitude even though they don’t know each other. I was really surprised at the first time since apparently, Japanese are not so willing to hug quite often. However, in these days, I’ve gotten used to hug and almost every day before going to bed or school, I hug with my host children. The point what I want to say is that hug has enormous potential to make people happy and healthy. There is a proper evidence about this, according to the article or TED talk which I read or watched (I don’t remember exactly though), says that some physical actions like a kiss or hug release the particular hormone which eliminates the stress and any anxious or even pain. This means that hugging could play a role in medicine because it has valuable effects on not only the psychological health, but also the physical health. 

  To sum up, the most important or beneficial conventions which I found in Australia is hug. Thinking about picture or photo, I don’t have any photos which indicate that kind of custom, so Ill attach the photo of my host family.