Title: A Bite of Diplomacy

Category: Community Groups and Special Populations

School: Sichuan Cangxi Vocational high school

3 students, they are Luo Ying, Zhao Zian, Du Jianguo.Date that project was finished: 11/20/2012 Three of us had never participated the Door to Diplomacy project before.

Bibliography: www.yellowsheepriver.com/~sc000042/2013/dd/whsmzh/ckzl.html

Description of Our Team
Our three boys get together to do this project. The names of three people are Luo Ying, Zhao Zian and Dujianguo. We are in the same class and live in local. We are sophomores who are studying in the vocational high school, the major is computer applications. Luo Ying, 17 years old, introverted, but being good at observing what is happening, likes to think the things happened in the community calmly. Zhao XingAn, 17 years old, he is very interested in computer in his childhood, so he chose to learn computer, like the research about network and computer-related problems. To research cuisine is the specialty of the girls, but our three boys are also very interested in cuisine, we are in the same class, and often talk about food topics. Especially in recent years, Western cuisine has broaden our outlook, we know more about Western cultures, this understanding is more vivid than the introduction on books, we believe that food is an interesting topic. Through research, we found that the world culture can be spread rapidly through gourmet diplomacy, of course, it can also enhance economic development, changing the lives of people everywhere, and cuisine has become a window of understanding different cultures around the world.

Team members were talking about webpage-making

Summary of Our Project
Our team is responsible for food diplomacy. Food diplomacy is easily to be accepted. With the acceleration of the integration process in the world, food diplomacy has been developed rapidly. In our project, Through our research on food culture diplomacy and economic, and many national leaders carry out diplomacy with food, it shows that food diplomacy is very important in the diplomatic sphere, we think that the food is culture carrier, we focus on analyzing Asian international food culture characteristics of Western, China, Korea, Japan, it shows that food exchanges between different countries can help them strengthen the diplomacy, to improve people's mutual understanding between nations, especially cultural understanding, make the countries more inclusive, have more communication, tolerance and communication is friendly and peaceful, and people from different countries enjoy the culture and customs of the different regions in the world. We also personally experienced the Western practice, furthermore, understanding the Western culture.

Our Computer and Internet Access
Percentage of students using the Internet at home:40%
Number of workstations with internet access in the classroom: 4000
Connection speed used in the classroom: 4MB
Number of years our classroom has been connected to the internet: 9 years
The students in our school get on the internet through ADSL, and 2M bandwidth of China Telecom is used. A few students can get on the internet at home, and some teachers can get on the Internet at home.

Problems We Had To Overcome
In order to carry out the project, the first object we interviewed is the boss of West restaurant, he not only told us about Western's manners but also the mode of operation of the Western, but he is more focused on operating efficiency, so we think that he knew less about Western culture. But it was very remote here, almost there were no foreigners, so we cannot interview people who really understood Western culture, we can only find information in the library and to collect data on the network. In order to experience the Western culture, we made use of local materials, in accordance with the information on the method, do a simple Western food, of course, this is very simple, we believe that this can deepen our understanding of food diplomacy.
Supplement of computer or Internet access: the students in our school get on the internet through ADSL, and 2M bandwidth of China Telecom is used. A few students can get on the internet at home, and some teachers can get on the Internet at home.
In order to carry out the project, the first object we interviewed is the boss of West restaurant, he not only told us about Western's manners but also the mode of operation of the Western, but he is more focused on operating efficiency, so we think that he knew less about Western culture. But it was very remote here, almost there were no foreigners, so we cannot interview people who really understood Western culture, we can only find information in the library and to collect data on the network. In order to experience the Western culture, we made use of local materials, in accordance with the information on the method, do a simple Western food, of course, this is very simple, we believe that this can deepen our understanding of food diplomacy. This is the first time to make webpage, we are lack of experience in the production, and some still do not understand, to overcome this difficulty, we invite the three computer professional teachers for our consultants to help achieving our thoughts.

We tried our hand at making western food

Our Project Sound Bite
Through research more than a few months, we believe that cultural exchanges in different countries can be improved through food diplomacy, enrich diversity of the diet, more importantly, as the carrier for its cuisine, to strengthen cultural exchanges between the countries and enhance mutual understanding, of course, it can also develop the economic exchanges.

How did your activities and research for this Doors to Diplomacy Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
Our school requires us to finish social research surveys and social practice activities, just to be consistent with the requirements of the school, through research, making webpage, it can improve our social cognition and professional skills, and this is consistent with the requirement of school. In the study of the research process, we got the support of school and community, we have learned a lot of different exchanges, and communication skills have been improved. We also feel that the project research is as the same as learning knowledge, you need a sense of teamwork to overcome the difficulties with a positive attitude towards everything. Our study is made of webpage, which further enhances our confidence in learning.

What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your Doors to Diplomacy project?

Tow computers, Camera used for taking photos; Dreamweaver MX 2004 used for webpage making; photshop 7.0 used for images editing; Cute FTP 7 used for files upload and download

In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Doors to Diplomacy project both on-line and in person.
In order to experience the culture of the Western diet, the three of us personally do Western food, and shared with the students, the three of us went to the West restaurant to taste the charm of the Western food, and communicating with the boss to get his support. In order to get more information in the study, we also mobilized a lot of students and teachers to help us.

We enjoyed our achievement of our hard work.

What has been the impact of your project on your community?　
Many people in our community know more about cuisine and cultural significance in different countries through our research, we also recognize that the problem of world food exchanges is existed. The people around us take the initiative to study the culinary culture of different countries, understanding the history of a nation's culture.

Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises
We also found that the same problem is existed in the diet exchanges, such as religion has great impact on food culture, and there is food safety problem.