Saturday, August 28, 2010

Culture shock, the cultural revolution, and have culture will travel.

The implication from "The Politics of Culture" is during the 60's and 70's we went through a cultural revolution. A non conformist group fights against a conformist group. The non conformist group is fighting against the establishment. Society experienced culture shock. Out of this movement freedom of expression emerged. It manifested itself in literature, dress, television, movies, music, dance and social encounters. Your culture is who you are, what you know, when you arrive, where you live and why you left in the first place. Sometimes you might even consider how you got there. Cultural makes us think and move towards change. Culture is a noun, an adverb and an adjective. A person may be cultured. A person may have a cultural experience or live amongst a culture. Cult is part of the word culture. A large part of society that is devoted to a specific type of behavior and continually reinforces it through mass media and appearance will ultimately create a culture that others will participate in. Culture is constantly changing and moving back and forth and up and down and going round and round. It's continuation is circular. The socioeconomic group that has the strongest message at that particular moment will have the greatest influence on where our culture travels to and how it defines us.

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