Singapore Youth Culture
Chinese Youth Cuture
Social Media
In Singapore, most youths usually use social media like facebook, whatsapp, instagram and tumblr.
Facebook - to connect with our friends and keep in touch
Instagram - to capture nice moments and share photos to our friends and family
Whatsapp - to message our friends and family easily
Tumblr - (similar to blog) to post about anything we want
From what we know, youths in China use Weibo, Wechat, QQ as well as Youku.
Weibo - it is a Chinese microblogging website similar to Facebook
Wechat - to message friends and family (similar to whatsapp)
QQ - it is an instant messaging software which also offers a variety of services, including online social games, music, shopping, microblogging, movies, platform of games and group and voice chat.
YouKu - for people to watch videos (it is like a Chinese version of Youtube)
Singapore youths use mainly English based social media platforms while Chinese youths use mainly Chinese based platforms. Although Singapore and Chinese youths use different social media platforms, we use social medai for the same reason which that it is a platform for us to connect with our friends or even to re-connect with people we went to school with years ago. Some of them might not even be really close friends at the time, but via social media, we can connect in new and interesting ways. Also, these social medias are actually similar in many ways, just that the language is different.
Games
League of Legends (a.k.a LoL) - it is a multiplayer online battle arena where the players play the role of a character with unique abilities, battling with a team against other player or computer-controlled champions
Crossy Road - it is a mobile game where players have to get past obstacles
Flappy Bird - it is a mobile game where the player controls a bird and attempt to fly between rows of green pipes without coming into contact with them
And from what our group know, youths in China also play LoL and also 赛尔号.
赛尔号 - 是一个网页游戏，由上海淘米网络开发制作，适用年龄为6岁以上，游戏口号为“英勇赛尔，智慧童年”。赛尔号原是智制作的掌机游戏然后各种改变剧情与平台破解。
赛尔号是一款集合了精灵培养、收集、战斗等多种玩法的养成类游戏。
From this, we can see that youths in Singapore and China both play similar games, like multiplayer battling games, and the reason why people play games is that we can enjoy ourselves when playing games and at the same time relieve some stress from our hectic lives.
Shows
In Singapore, the film 'Ah Boys to Men’ is really popular among the youths since it is a comedy show and also, its has many local jokes or slang in it. Therefore, it is really unique to us and only we Singaporeans are able to understand. As compared to us, we feel that Chinese youths would watch the show 步步惊心 and also 非诚勿扰 which are very famous even in Singapore therefore we believe that the Chinese youths would watch them. Although the youths in Singapore and China both watch different shows, we believe both parties enjoy watching shows as it is a form of entertainment and we can relieve some stress from it.
Music
In Singapore, the youths tend to incline towards...anything. In a classroom, you will definitely find people with vastly different tastes in music. There are some who likes Korean music, some who likes Japanese music, and some who likes English music, and of course, some who likes Chinese music.
In China, however, we believe that, though there are people who likes English, Korean and Japanese pop, Chinese youth tend to incline more towards Chinese music
However, though the youths may listen to different kinds of music, and their tastes might be very different, they all listen for the same reason- to relieve stress. After all, there is a saying "Music is a language of its own"
Sports
In China, they play many different sports, like soccer and badminton, as well as leisure sports like waveboarding. Some are also talented in freeline skating, a sport that is not so commonly seen in Singapore.
Mobile phones are a big part of a Singapore youth' life. So much so that the mostly, the only sport we play are the ones on our phones. And thus the term “低头族” is formed.
We also feel the need to keep up with the "mobile phone trend", which means buying the latest mobile phones the moment it is released.
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