Welcome to Singafrica Connection!!

Welcome to Singafrica Connections!! This is a project of cultural collaboration between Singaporean students of the National University of Singapore and South African students of Vega. This blog is the medium through which we (the Singaporean students) decided to present our findings. This blog consists of several posts relating to music, contexts of crime, perceptions of value, language, and city/township slangs that attempt to explore the youth cultures withing Singapore and South Africa. This blog is for academic purposes as well as for students studying intercultural communications to engage in a dialogue to further discuss certain theories.

Cultural Similarities and Differences Diagram

The main medium used to communicate back and forth between Singapore and South Africa was Facebook. Due to time differences, internet problems and holiday clashes it wasnt possible for us to discuss ideas over other forms of communication. Hopefully, this blog itself will become another medium as we publicize it on Facebook.

Feel free to comment on any of the posts an explore the photographs and videos to understand the similarities and differences between the youth cultures of both Singapore and South Africa.

Recommendations:

- This project was very different and challengning however the major issue was that it was too open-ended. There were too many options for us to explore and when that happens it becomes difficult to be selective and choose certain aspects.

- The project can be more specific.

- A report might be more comprehensive as that way the cultural theories of communication can be applied and elaborated in detail like a research paper.

- It was definately an interesting project and one that teaches you a lot about Computer Mediated Communication and about how (yes) it decreases geographical distances and time issues but how asynchronous communication via the internet can be difficult to encode and decode for various cultures.