Montage - Singapore Youth VS Chinese Youth

Singapore Youth Culture

 

Social Media:

Facebook- platform where people can post and comment to stay contact and keep in touch with our friends

Twitter- an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. People tweet about their daily happenings.

Instagram- a social media where you can capture any interesting moment of your life and post it to share it with your friends, family and the public

Whatsapp- an online chatting platform where you can message and send photos, videos or audio messages to your family and friends 

Games:

League of Legends, DotA 2 are some video games that are commonly played among Singapore youth especially the boys.

Crossy Road, Clash of Clan are games than could be found in our portable devices like the hand phones and iPad.

Games are played by Singapore Youth to relief some stress from their daily life and homework.

Shows:

Korean Drama- it is very popular not only among Singapore youth but even the adults. Some examples are The Heirs and Boys Over Flowers.

夜市人生- a Taiwanese drama aired in Singapore during the weekends evening, therefore students are able to watch them during the weekends.

Anime- unlike the other two, anime is featuring hand-drawn or computer animation. Anime is very popular among Singapore youth too.

Sports:

Basketball- students especially guys, like to play basketball during their free time to relief stress (e.g recess, after school)

Music:

K-Pop- exo, apink, girls generation, etc

K-Pop is not only popular among Singapore Youth, but all around the world. K-Pop is now the trend in music for Singapore youth, not forgetting English and Chinese songs. 

 

Chinese Youth Culture

Social Media: 

Weibo- “Weibo” is the Chinese word for “microblog”. Known as the “Twitter of China”, Sina Weibo  is actually much more than just that – it has over twice as many users as Twitter, and it’s used by more than 22% of the Chinese Internet population of almost 540 million people! Sina Weibo was well ahead of the game in providing users with the ability to include images and video – far before its Western counterpart, Twitter.

QQ- a widely popular instant messaging service. 

Wechat — is a mobile voice and text app. With social features like “friend discovery”, you can chat with your friends instantly via voice messages, texts, or images. You can also create group chats to chat with several friends together. It has more than 100 million users.

Youku- is the second largest video site in the world after Youtube

Renren- Renren is essentially China’s Facebook. Formerly called Xiaonei, which means “schoolyard”, it began as a platform for re-connecting friends from school.  

Renren- Renren is a typical SNS with a variety of functions with its own characteristics. In general, it is updated once or twice a year when the system's functions require rectification and further development. In addition, it changes the web page's design on special days, like Spring Festival or National Day.

Games:

Chinese youth play video games like DotA and League of Legends (LoL) similar to what Singapore youth.

These video games are currently the popular ones among the youths around the world. They play them to relief stress too. However, most of the Chinese youth do not have much time to play them  due to the long hours of schooling.

Shows:

中国好声音- 为口号，因其独特创新的节目模式迅速风靡全球势，选择最具实力和潜质的选手进行后续比拼，延续了《The Voice》一贯风格，以正面、励志的态度去选拨最佳歌唱家，所到各国均赢得了最炙手可热的音乐巨星青睐和参与，并获得很高的收视纪录。

康熙来了- China youth is becoming more and more similar to Taiwan youth who have relatively little interest in politics but are more interested in the entertainment. For example, the Taiwan talk show Kangxi Coming is very popular among mainland college students.

Sports:

Basketball- the NBA has put a lot of resources into helping grow the game here, as part of a campaign to cultivate Chinese fans. NBA-sponsored organizations have built nearly a million basketball courts in villages large and small, and for many years essentially gave broadcast rights to CCTV for free.

Music:

As K-Pop is trending nowadays, Chinese youth also follow the trend and many of them start to like kpop. However, they still listen to Chinese songs from all around the world like Taiwan and Singapore (JJ Lin).