\documentstyle[doublespace]{article}
\begin{document}
\singlespace
\noindent
David Golombek\\
21F.030\\
Journal \#1\\\\
\doublespace

Culture is the totality of those social media which affect the members
of a community.  Social media is chosen to include all methods of
communication between members of that community, and thus culture is
all those things by which a community communicates among itself.
Asian Culture (henceforth AC) has many stereotypes associated with,
because the members of the Asian community are frequently very family
oriented, and thus have strong, homogeneous communities.  To me, AC is
comprised of the cultures of people raised in Asia (for the purposes
of defining an AC, I don't differentiate between those raised in
different regions of Asia, but do differentiate between those raised
in Asia and those raised elsewhere).  My ideas of this culture are
centered around its food, religion, and styles of dress.

When I visited the Porter Exchange, it conveyed an impression of AC as
being very commercially oriented, with lots of glitz and money.  It is
the elegance and foreigness of AC that is marketed to non-asians,
while it's the membership in the asian community that is being
marketed to asians themselves, by dressing like the community
standards.  This commercialism was a bit stronger than I expected, and
what was being sold was more glamorous and ritzy than I expected, but
the types of things and the way things were sold fit with my
preconceptions of AC.

My impression of AC comes almost entirely from living in Hong Kong at
a young age.  My only experience with AC before that point was
extremely limited contact with Chinese food, and thus at age 7 I was
suddenly immersed directly into AC.  Going shopping with my mother, I
visited all parts of Hong Kong, plus my family took trips to Lantau,
Macao, China, South Korea, Japan, and most of the South-East Asian
countries along the peninsula and the archipelagos.  I think our trips
were not-overly commercialized, and thus I obtained a reasonable
impression of AC first hand.

Nitschke's view of Japanese Zen fit somewhat with my idea of AC, but in a
much more subdued fashion.  My impression of AC is too tainted by
living in Hong Kong, with all it's hussle and bussle, and thus his
picture of Japapnese Zen was simply too calm.  I think Zen comes close
to an idealization of the rational thought of much of Asian culture,
but the actuality of AC is much more active and irrational.

\end{document}