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    Written Report

    CultureXtravaganza

    A project to promote Cultural Interest

    Beverly Teo

    Leong Kah Lun

    Hazeeq Sukri

    Debra Lim V-Ming

    TJC PW127

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    Chapter 1: Introduction

    1.1 Choice of Topic Page 4

    1.2 Reason for choice of topic Page 4

    1.3 Importance for preserving culture Page 5

    1.4 Goal for project Page 5

    Chapter 2: Project Derivation and Introduction to our

    Project

    2.1 Derivation of our project Page 62.2 Impacts of the Road Safety Park Page 62.2.1 Positive Impacts Page 62.2.2 Effectiveness of Road safety Park Page 72.2.3 Limitations Page 82.3 Applying idea to our chosen area: Cultural Xtravaganza Page 8

    Chapter 3: Pilot Details

    3.1 Background and Aim of our event Page 9

    3.2 Learning Outcomes Page 93.3 Date and Time of the event Page 93.4 Target Audience Page 103.5 Main Attraction of the event Page 103.6 Planned Activities for the event Page 113.6.1 I Love My Culture Because Page 113.6.2 Cultural Delicacies Page 123.6.3 Traditional Costumes Page 13

    3.7 Promoting Singapores Variety of Culture Page 143.7.1 Information Booth Page 14

    3.7.2 Facebook and Blog webpage Page 15/163.8 Manpower Page 17

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    Chapter 4: Evaluation

    4.1 Evaluation of Event Page 184.1.1 I love my culture because Page 184.1.2 Telematch Page 184.1.3 Post-Telematch Survey Page 184.2 Indicators of success Page 194.2.1 Short-term Indicators (Pre-event Survey) Page 19/204.2.2 Long-term Indicators Page 214.3 Strengths Page 214.3.1 Relevance to Modern Singapore Page 214.3.2 Feasibility Page 214.3.3 Fun-Factor Page 214.3.4 Diversity Page 224.4 Limitations Page 22

    4.5 Solutions Page 224.6 Originality of our Project Page 23

    Chapter 5: Conclusion

    5.1 Summary of Project Page 24

    5.2 Room for Improvement Page 24

    5.3 Conclusion Page 24

    Appendix:

    Annex 1 Page 25/26/27Annex 2 Page 28/29/30Annex 3 Page 31Annex 4 Page 32/33Annex 5 Page 34

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    CHAPTER 1 Introduction

    1.1 Choice of Topic

    My group examined a case study based on the amalgamation of fun and education

    of road safety values, being practiced by the Road Safety Park (RSP). The values

    are taught to students through a game where they take on roles such as

    pedestrians, cyclists or drivers. Realising the effects of having fun while learning, we

    decided to examine the RSP closely, applying the reason for its success to our

    project. We will examine the reasons for cultural erosion and methods for cultural

    preservation.

    1.2 Reason for choice of topic

    Living in a modern society1, we become ignorant about our culture due to our heavy

    workloads. Instead of embracing culture, people become ignorant about cultural

    preservation and choose to let it erode.

    Currently, cultural practices are carried only on Government-allocated days such as

    Racial Harmony day. Hence, people have less exposure to their culture and are

    more inclined to disregard their culture.

    Globalisation has led to the infusion of culture2. Local culture is now subjected to

    greater exposure by other cultures via the media. Western-centric films such as

    Gossip Girls are dominating the Singapore market, resulting in our local cultures to

    be influenced by foreign cultures.

    1Yim, Philip. July 18, 2001.http://www.thingsasian.com/stories-photos/1608 (accessed

    6/9/2010).2Tan, Carol. "Japanese culture takes Singapore by storm."http://www.mynippon.com/culture/ singapore.html (accessed 9/9/2010).

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    Chapter 2 Project derivation and Introduction

    to our Project

    2.1 Derivation of our project

    In our bid to tackle the loss of traditional culture in Singapore, we have chosen to

    examine our idea from the RSP located at East Coast Road in Singapore. The RSP

    is about educating people on road safety through engaging mediums. It aims to

    educate children on the importance of road safety through a fun and an interactive

    learning environment within a simulated RSP.

    Figure 16: Students at Road Safety Park

    2.2 Impacts of the Road Safety Park

    2.2.1 Positive Impacts

    The primary school children are taught about road safety at a young age, ensuring

    that road safety measures are inculcated in them. It being compulsory for students to

    attend a road safety course, everyone will be educated and thus lowering the

    chances of traffic-related accidents. The aim to get children interested by going

    through the courses allows them to learn more easily and willingly as they get to

    experience the danger of road traffic and learn from their mistakes, instead of just

    through the textbook method. Around 500 students go to the park daily and from

    1981 to 1992, at least 600000 children have become trained road marshals. This

    shows that it has achieved its aim to increase the interest in Singaporeans.

    6http://www.shell.com.sg/home/content/sgp/environment_society/shell_in_the_society/social_investment/road_safety/ (accessed 28/8/2010).

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    2.2.2 Effectiveness of Road safety Park

    Year No. of

    Pedestrian

    Deaths

    Population Per

    100,000

    Head of

    Population

    No. of

    Registered

    Vehicles

    Per

    10,000

    Vehicles

    199

    5

    63 3,467,500 1.82 626,727 1.01

    199

    6

    70 3,612,000 1.94 656,552 1.07

    199

    7

    78 3,736,700 2.09 677,818 1.15

    199

    8

    67 3,865,600 1.73 685,213 0.98

    199

    9

    56 3,893,600 1.44 682,572 0.82

    200

    0

    59 4,017,700 1.47 684,287 0.86

    200

    1

    54 4,131,200 1.31 708,969 0.76

    200

    2

    49 4,171,300 1.17 705,059 0.69

    200

    3

    64 4,185,200 1.53 707,865 0.90

    200

    4

    46 4,240,300 1.08 716,907 0.64

    200

    5

    41 4,351,400 0.94 742,156 0.55

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    200

    6

    42 4,483,900 0.94 776,571 0.54

    Figure 37

    The data shows that pedestrian death has decreased since the RSP was introduced.Therefore, the RSP is effective in educating Singaporeans about road safety.

    2.2.3 Limitations

    However, road accidents can also be caused by factors such as drink-driving. The

    RSP does not emphasise on the danger of drink-driving as it emphasises mainly on

    pedestrians safety. Hence, road accidents still occur frequently, with an approximate

    6% of road accident victims below 15 years old. Knowing that there are other factors

    not covered in the Road Safety Park, my group would like to ensure that nothing is

    missed out in our project, Cultural Xtravaganza.

    2.3 Applying idea to our chosen area: Cultural Xtravaganza

    We want to arouse the interest of Singaporeans in their local culture through

    engaging mediums. This is brought about by the current situation of cultural erosion.

    We want our future generations to remember and practise their traditional culture

    and hope to achieve the similar outcomes of reigniting their Singaporeans interest in

    their traditional culture, using the same concept practised in the RSP.

    7

    Ho, Seng Tim. July2007.www.unescap.org/ttdw/roadsafety/Reports2007/Singapore_RSpaper.doc (accessed6/9/2010).

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    Chapter 3 Project Details

    3.1 Background and Aim of our event

    Our proposed event: Culture Xtravaganza, is an amalgamation of culture and fun. It

    aims to remind people of the importance of their culture and ultimately their roots.

    We want to raise the awareness and interest of people about their own unique

    culture by captivating their interest in their culture through engaging mediums. We

    are concerned about the potential loss of our national cultural identity in the future if

    our traditional cultural traditions are not passed to future generations.

    In order to tackle this problem, we have set our sights on educating the younger

    generation, namely students aged 14 18, as our target audience as that is the age

    where youths start to be ignorant on their own culture8. Furthermore, by educating

    youths from an early age9, it will be easier to get our message on cultural

    preservation across.

    3.2 Learning Outcomes

    We want to highlight on the difference when learning through the textbook method in

    comparison to the hands-on method. Learning through first hand experiences10

    would be more beneficial as it allows one to be more interactive.

    3.3 Date and time of the event

    Our event will be a one week event, held in conjunction with Singapores Racial

    Harmony Day, from 21 to 28 July 2010. It is the ideal time to hold this event as we

    can best promote our project, which aims to promote and preserve Singapores

    traditions and cultures through engaging and exciting mediums when in conjunction

    with Racial Harmony Day.

    8 http://www.polyforum.edu.sg/resources/erosion-of-cultural-identity (accessed29/8/2010).9 Awesome Tuition Agency.6/28/2010.http://www.tuitionagency.com.sg/blog/articles/start-learning-chinese-during-

    the-early-age (accessed 29/8/2010).10 Yeo-Chua Siew Kheng Catherine, Richard B Baldauf Jr. 5/28.http://conference.nie.edu.sg/2007/paper/papers /OTH060.pdf (accessed 5/9/2010).

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    3.4 Target Audience

    We will be targeting students from Temasek Junior College as they fit the age

    category that we want to educate. Furthermore, the location is easily accessible as it

    is our school and we will be able to continue on our research on any school day. This

    allows us to conduct our researches with ease.

    3.5 Main attraction of the event Reminiscing the Games of The Past

    This activity would be much favoured by the students over an ordinary exhibition as

    students are able to participate and enjoy themselves while playing games with their

    peers. As such, a higher degree of interest created. We would have achieved our

    aim of educating youths about their culture through engaging mediums.

    Students can participate in cultural games from different races such as, Five-Stones

    and Congkak. These games allows students to have a better understanding of

    various races and cultures as they get to play the games the older generation once

    played when they do not have the luxury of technological games.

    Game Description Team A

    Points

    Team B

    PointsChakteh Teams attempt to juggle the Chakteh as

    many times in 1 min.

    Sepak Tekraw Teams compete against one another.

    First team to score 5 wins.

    Congkak Team which gets most marbles wins.

    Jumping Rope Teams will attempt to jump over the

    rope together. Team with most jumps

    wins.

    3.6 Planned Activities for the Event

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    3.6.1 I Love My Culture Because

    Pieces of paper are prepared for students to pen down reasons on why they love

    their culture. Photos of students holding the paper they wrote on would be taken. As

    students who visited our booth would be encouraged to join our Facebook group, we

    will tag the students their photos on their Facebook account as a memento.

    As youths of the current era are too tied down with their workloads11 and other

    technological distractions, they tend to neglect their own cultural practices. This

    activity allows students to ponder and think about their culture and what they are

    most proud of about their culture before writing on the paper. It also serves as a

    timely reminder for students to realise that their own culture is eroding if they do not

    practice it.

    Figure 1: Students with their - I Love My Culture Because paper

    3.6.2 Cultural Delicacies

    11

    Franklin, Doug.3/16/2010.http://www.youthworkers.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/blog.view/BlogID/165(accessed 5/9/2010).

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    In order to introduce and promote our aims to the students, we have prepared

    several cultural delicacies for students to sample to attract students to our booth.

    They include Kueh Lapis and Malt Candy.

    All these delicacies are aimed at raising12 the interests of students in their cultures

    through engaging mediums and we want students to learn more about the delicacies

    of their culture. Students should be able to reflect on the change and difference in

    food preferences between the current and the past generation, hence allowing

    students to realise the presence of cultural erosion and the need to preserve their

    culture practice of their cultural delicacies.

    We have ordered the delicacies from Muslim stall tenders, bearing in mind that the

    food is Halal13. This is to cater to students from not only the Muslim community but

    also every other student as Muslims can only consume Halal food.

    Figure 2: Delicacies for students to sample

    Figure 3: Students enjoying the delicacies for sample

    3.6.3 Traditional costumes

    12 Feb2,2005.http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/124214/using_food_to_boost_math_and_sc

    ience_skills/index.html (accessed 10/9/2010).13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal (accessed 29/8/2010).

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    To provide an opportunity for students to appreciate their own traditional costumes

    as well as that of other races, students would be encouraged to come to school

    dressed up in their traditional costumes.

    A traditional costume competition would be organised and students who are in their

    traditional costumes will be rated by our group members. Students will take turns to

    present themselves in their tradition costume for the judges to rate them. The best

    dressed student will be given a sash.

    This event aims to encourage youths to wear their traditional costumes more often

    and allow them to feel proud of their own traditional costumes. We also want

    students to realise the change and difference in clothing preferences between the

    current and the past generation, thus allowing them to realise the presence of

    cultural erosion and the need to preserve the custom of wearing tradition clothing.

    Criterion Maximum score

    Adherence to tradition 15

    Attractiveness 15

    3.7 Promoting Singapores Variety of Culture

    3.7.1 Information Booth

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    the world14. This allows us to garner more support for our project and raise

    awareness on our groups aims and objectives. To add on, we will be able to reach

    out to a larger group of audience, which includes the people from the older

    generation as well as people from other countries.

    The Blog webpage is used to provide information to Singaporean students who wish

    to know more about the various ethnic and traditions in our Multi-Racial society. The

    Blog webpage is an ideal choice for us to provide our readers with information as it is

    one of the more widely used webpage too. For example, several blogs15 have

    achieved successes and have attracted many readers daily. The webpage is also

    easily accessible and allows us to edit to update our information to ensure that it is

    up-to-date.

    Figure 4: Facebook Page16

    14 Gustin, Sam. 3/15/2010.http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/facebook-overtakes-google-as-most-popular-u-s-website/19400137/ (accessed 29/8/2010).15

    Xue, Xia. http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/ (accessed 5/9/2010).16 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=101524443236679&v=wall&ref=ts(accessed 5/9/2010).

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    Figure 5: Blog webpage17

    3.8 Manpower

    A total of 4 people, consisting of all our members, are required for the event.

    Event Manpower Work Allocation

    Traditional

    Costume

    Competition4

    3 judges.

    1 facilitator.

    Telematch 4 4 Games-Master

    Pilot Test 4

    1 Surveyor

    2 members at Reflections station.

    1 member at Delicacies station.

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    Chapter 4 - Evaluation of the Showcase

    4.1 Evaluation of Event

    4.1.1 I love my culture because

    The basis of the test was to let students ponder and reflect on why they love their

    culture. This method worked well as we received insightful answers which show

    maturity, respect and proper understanding towards their culture and these traits are

    desirable in elevating the process of cultural preservation. The fact that students

    actually spent time to go through their answers proves that they are serious about

    cultural preservation.

    4.1.2 Telematch

    To emulate the RSPs success of education through engaging mediums, we

    conducted a Telematch based on cultural games. Research18 shows that games

    stimulate the mind and encourage learning. Thus, we aim to create a conducive

    environment for students to appreciate traditional games by recreating a village

    atmosphere to show that traditional games still have a place in modern society.

    On 28July, we attracted 12 students to participate in our Telematch and they were

    grouped into two teams where they competed with one another to facilitate learning

    18 Oct 2004.http://www.stc.org/intercom/PDFs/2004/20040910_06-09.pdf (accessed6/9/2010)

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    as students learn better in the presence of friendly competition19. The participants

    were attentive to the intricacies surrounding the games and in the end, a team

    comprising of 3 males and 3 females won the Telematch.

    4.1.3 Post-Telematch Survey20

    To ensure that participants sincerely appreciated their culture through the

    Telematch, our group conducted a post-match survey. Results indicated that the

    participants rated our Telematch very highly as they learnt more about their culture

    and hence, we can safely conclude that the Telematch was successful.

    4.2 Indicators of success

    Short Term

    Indicators

    1.Facebook: No. of

    Members

    2.Turnout at event

    booth, showing

    support generated

    3.Response

    through surveys

    Long Term

    Indicators

    1.Long-term

    activity of

    Facebook Page

    And Blog

    2.Increasing

    Interest in culture

    from public

    3.Response

    through survey

    4.2.1 Short-term Indicators (Pre-event Survey21 )

    Survey forms were disseminated to visitors at our main booth under LT2 and through

    this; we aim to assess the extent to which our activities are able to achieve our

    objective to educate youths on their cultures through engaging mediums.

    From the survey, we found out that cultural erosion is very real as most of the

    respondents felt that they were ignorant about their own culture.

    19 Hughes, Ben. http://www.helium.com/items/973495-is-competition-in-school-helpful-or-

    harmful-to-the-students (accessed 29/8/2010).20 Refer to statistics in Appendix21 Refer to statistics in Appendix

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    However, all is not lost. Most of the respondents were enthusiastic about learning

    more about their culture and were willing to go to contribute more to be more

    involved in their culture.

    42.20%

    28.40%

    20.60%

    8.80%

    How willing are you to put on yourcultural costume when the occasion calls

    for it?

    Highly willing - 5

    Willing - 4

    Fair - 3

    Below Average (2 -1)

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    48.90%

    30.60%

    15.20%

    5.30%

    How far would you go to learn more aboutyour culture?

    Highly willing - 5

    Willing - 4

    Fair - 3

    Below Average (2 -1)

    The high number of respondents ignorant being to their culture indicates the need for

    Cultural Xtravaganza to be around to ensure that there will be an avenue for

    people to learn and foster their love towards their culture. Secondly, the high

    percentage of those passionate to be more involved with their culture justifies that

    absolute cultural depletion will be avoided.

    4.2.2 Long-term indicators

    The long-term indicators will show if our project is able to withstand the test of time.

    We want Cultural Xtravaganza to continue even after Project Work ends. For

    instance, we can use Facebook to communicate with our active members who can

    contribute by stating how they can help preserve Singapores culture and suggest

    activities that will pique their interest. This will allow our group to strengthen those

    ideas by coming up with initiatives to preserve culture in Singapore.

    4.3 Strengths

    4.3.1 Relevance to Modern Singapore

    Cultural erosion is a prevalent issue in Singapore. Culture encompasses many

    aspects such as heritage, way of life and games and with globalization, many of

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    these aspects are diminishing in Singapore. For instance, Hollywood films22

    constantly out gross local films. Hence, it is important to ensure that our cultures do

    not get eroded. Therefore, the strength of our project is where we advocate ways to

    preserve local culture to combat cultural erosion.

    4.3.2 Feasibility

    Our project is conducted by all 4 group members, with minimal costs. Hence, we can

    use our low production cost as a selling point to attract 3rd party sponsors as we can

    easily conduct our project again, making it a feasible project.

    4.3.3 Fun-Factor

    Fun can be created simply by interactivity, a major theme in many of our activities.

    By doing so, we put the participants in a state of ease, allowing them to be more

    relaxed when they participate in our surveys and activities. Hence, the results

    obtained from the surveys will be more accurate and in tune with the feelings of the

    respondents.

    4.3.4 Diversity

    Through diversifying our means of connecting to our demographic, we expanded our

    reach of finding ways to encourage cultural preservation and promote it. The results

    can be seen through our Facebook group where 290+ members have joined and

    most have expressed interest in our initiatives. Traditional methods of advertising

    such as flyers also worked. More people had access to our flyers than Facebook

    group. As such, it was better to diversify than to stick to just one media of

    advertisement as the various forms complement each other.

    4.4 Limitations

    22 Dec 2009.http://www.smf.sg/SFC/Documents/Top%2010%20Grossing%20Movies.pdf

    (accessed 6/9/2010).

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    One limitation was that Cultural Xtravaganza was organized within the perimeters

    of Temasek Junior College. There was no sure way of saying that the same success

    will translate on a larger scale.

    Next, due to a lack of sponsor from a third-party organisation, we believe that our

    aim of spreading the message of cultural preservation was limited. We could have

    had a more profound impact if we had the resources to engage in more activities.

    4.5 Solutions

    Upon further research23, we discovered that the impact of cultural erosion, though

    imminent, can be minimised through constant implementation of cultural activities so

    that the values of said culture will live on in our minds.

    4.6 Originality of our project

    Our project was probably not the only one in Singapore to deal with the issue of

    culture. For instance, organisations such as The Seri Warisan also aim to preserve

    certain aspects of culture. On a national scale, the issue of preserving culture is not

    original.

    However, we used the new to save the old by incorporating new media tools such as

    Facebook and Blogger to our project. We want to show that it is possible to

    amalgamate fun with appreciation of ones culture. The perfect synergy of various

    unrelated concepts into our project made it original in its own right.

    23 Kimmelman, Michael. "In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French (2010), 1-3,

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/arts/25abroad.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&sq=preserving%20culture&st=cse&scp=29. (accessed September10, 2010).

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    CHAPTER 5 Conclusion

    5.1 Summary of Project

    In this project, we aimed to help others gain a better grasp of what traditional culture

    is all about and to help people better understand their culture so as to arouse their

    interest, thus increasing their enthusiasm to participate in cultural activities. The

    Facebook and Blog serve as platforms for us to reach out to the younger generation,

    raising awareness on traditional culture and also to allow them to learn more about

    their culture through interactive measures. It reminds people of their roots, allowing

    us to achieve our aim of preventing cultural erosion with time.

    5.2 Room for Improvement

    This project could be improved by implementing it on larger scale and by employing

    more resources. For instance, instead of only reaching out to the younger

    generation, we should reiterate the importance of culture to the working adults. Next,

    with more resources, we will be able to come up with more interactive measures

    such as comic scripts created under the theme of traditional culture, to attract more

    people and to educate them with a more engaging method.

    5.3 Conclusion

    In conclusion, my group believes that this project has played its role in raising

    awareness of cultural erosion and aroused people's interest about their culture. We

    hope that the public will be more proactive in participating in cultural activities as

    cultural preservation starts from individuals. If everyone plays their part in preventing

    cultural erosion with time, cultural preservation will then be a success.

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    APPENDIX

    Annex 1: Pre-Event Survey

    This is a Pre-Event survey done my Project Work Group: TJ127 and through this

    survey, we aim to find out more about cultural preservation in Singapores society.

    We are focusing on the cultures of our four main ethnic groups namely, Chinese,

    Malay, Indian and Eurasian. Please circle the alphabet of your choice.

    1. Which group do you fall under?

    a. Secondary/Pre-University school student

    b. University Student

    c. Working Adult

    d. Unemployed

    e. Retired

    2. To what extent do you think that culture is still important in todays society?

    a. 1 (not important)

    b. 2

    c. 3

    d. 4

    e. 5 (most important)

    3. How would you rate your involvement in your culture?

    a. 1 (lowest)

    b. 2c. 3

    d. 4

    e. 5 (highest)

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    4. How well do you think you know about your culture?

    a. 1 (lowest)

    b. 2

    c. 3

    d. 4

    e. 5 (highest)

    5. How proud are you of your culture?

    a. 1 (lowest)

    b. 2

    c. 3

    d. 4

    e. 5 (highest)

    6. How willing are you to put on your cultural costume when the occasion calls for

    it? (e.g. Racial Harmony Day)

    a. 1 (lowest)

    b. 2

    c. 3

    d. 4

    e. 5 (highest)

    7. How far would you go to learn more about your culture?

    a. 1 (lowest)

    b. 2

    c. 3

    d. 4

    e. 5 (highest)

    8. Will joining a Facebook group on culture, increase your interest in your culture?

    a. Yes

    b. No

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    9. Do you know what makes your culture different?

    a. Yes

    b. No

    10.Do you know what your traditional cultural costumes are? List some of them. (if

    yes)

    a. Yes

    b. No

    ___________________________________________________________

    ___

    ____________________________________________________________

    __

    11.Name as many as possible, cultural delicacies related to your culture.

    ______________________________________________________________

    ______________________________________________________________

    ______________________________________________________________

    12.Name as many as possible, cultural festivals related to your culture.

    ______________________________________________________________

    ______________________________________________________________

    ______________________________________________________________

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    --------------- THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING THIS SURVEY ---------------

    Annex 2: Results of Pre-Event Survey

    Based on the survey, we have had a high percentage of Pre-U students and several

    working adults who participated in our survey, 84.2% and 15.8% of 120 respondents

    respectively.

    50.2% of the respondents felt that they had little knowledge on their culture and

    45.6% had a fair rating. A low 4.2% of the respondents felt that they knew more

    about their culture with an above average rating of 4 5 out of 5.

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    46.7% of the respondents felt that they were doing just enough in their involvement

    in their own culture with a minority of 17.2% thinking that they had an above average

    rating of their involvement in their culture. 36.1% of the respondents felt that they are

    not very involved in their own culture.

    A large proportion of respondents were enthusiastic when it comes to putting on their

    cultural costume, with 42.2% who are highly willing and 28.4% who are willing.

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    20.6% of the respondents gave a fair rating and only 8.8% gave a below average

    rating.

    Most respondents were eager to learn more about their culture, with 48.9% highly

    willing, 30.6% willing, and 15.2% who gave a fair rating. Only 5.3% of the

    respondents gave a below average rating.

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    Annex 3: Post-Event Survey

    This is a Post-Event survey done my Project Work Group: TJ127 and through this

    survey, we want to find out the effectiveness of our activities in raising your interest

    in cultural activities. We are focusing on the cultures of our four main ethnic groupsnamely, Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian. Please circle the alphabet of your

    choice.

    1. After the telematch, to what extent has the Telematch successfully raised your

    interest in traditional games?

    a. 1 (Lowest)

    b. 2c. 3

    d. 4

    e. 5 (Highest)

    2. After the telematch, have u learnt more about your culture through these

    traditional games?

    a. Yes

    b. No

    3. After the telematch, do you think that culture practices can still be practiced

    regularly in our society?

    a. Yes

    b. No

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    Annex 4: Post-Event Survey

    The Telematch was successful in raising the interest of all 12 respondents as 58.3%

    rated 5, 33.3% rated 4 and only 8.3% rated 3.

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    83.30%

    16.60%

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    10.00%

    20.00%

    30.00%

    40.00%

    50.00%

    60.00%

    70.00%

    80.00%

    90.00%

    Yes No

    After the telematch, have u learnt moreabout your culture through these traditional

    games?

    Sales

    The Telematch has successfully raised the cultural knowledge of most of the

    respondents as 83.3% rated yes and 16.6% rated no.

    All the 12 respondents felt that despite our hectic schedules, it is possible to conduct

    our cultural practices in todays society.

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    Annex 5: Flyer

    Proudly Presents:

    Oh no! Cultures in trouble! What can we do?? o.O

    Well, YOU can start by supporting TJ127 in our quest

    To promote cultural preservation from 21st July to 28th July 2010!

    But how?

    By simply:

    ATTENDING OUR CULTURAL FASHION PARADE ON 21ST JULY TIME/PLACE:UNDERNEATH LT1, 3.30 PM- 4.30 PM

    PARTAKING IN OUR TELEMATCH ON 26TH JULY!!

    TIME/PLACE: PARADE SQUARE, 4.00PM-6.00PM

    TREATING YOURSELF TO FREE TRADITIONAL DELICACIES ON 28TH

    JULY!

    TIME/PLACE: GOOD NEWS CAF/UNDERNEATH LT2, 3.30-5.30PM

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