I hope this isn't considered late due to the prompt not being up until this morning.
Consider the current youth popular culture compared to those of the past. What movements do you have in your youth culture? How are you a part of your youth culture?
Thinking about my youth culture, I seem to draw a blank. I spend most of my days in my room, in my bubble studying all day. I feel like i'm not exactly part of anything. When in reality, I am part of the movements of women getting a collage education. The number of women who go to college almost out number men. As a teenager I was part of the typical generation X movement where I sat around all day, didn't work and partied and did drugs all the time. In those partying years it seemed like no one cared about anything or anyone. Drugs weren't scarey, they were fun and whatever happened, happened. My parents give me lots of freedom and didn't make me work for anything that I had. I was definitely part of the youth culture that did whatever they wanted and the attitude was all about me. Now that i'm older, I feel like i'm in the movement or part of society that any job you try to obtain requires years of experience and some college education. I had to go to school for a year to earn enough credits to become a preschool teacher. I busted my ass getting good grades in classes that taught you how to play with children. You might as well have parent training classes before you decide to become a parent. Also during my youth, I am stuck in a time where the country is not doing well financially. Luckily, neither of my parent's jobs have been effected by the economy and they are able to support me while I am going to school. Had that not be the case, I would not be able to attend school or get a decent paying job due to lack of a college degree. Along the same lines of growing up in the "me" generation, I have become very impatient and needy. I do not know how to wait for things, how to budget my money, and I feel extremely selfish. I think I am trying to balance that out by becoming a nurse. Either way, I feel like the movements I am part of are creating a monster of a person and I am not excited to see how people my age act 20 years from now.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Pre-Reading Blog #3
How do you perceive your popular culture? What does popular culture consist of in your world? Music? TV? The Web? Fashion? What attracted you to this particular section of popular culture? Why do you like it? How do you understand its history? Please end your blog with at least one good critical question.
I perceive my popular culture as lively, fast paced, cutthroat, and materialistic. Music from previous decades expressed needs of love, clarity and compassion. The music of my generation is about showing off material items, bragging about how many women or men people have slept with, whining about how hard life is, and screaming about how depressed people are. As an oppressed society women are expected to be thin, have big boobs, big hips, big lip, a tiny waist and straight hair dressed in designer clothes with a Gucci bag on the shoulder. Men are expected to be tall, dressed to look like that have money and to show off any material possession they have. As time goes on, our generation is changing a bit from the gender roles our parents had and still follow, if you've got parents like mine. Our means of communication with the help of technology have rapidly expanded and now it's illegal to talk on the phonw while driving your BMW you're leasing. Heaven forbid someone can't get ahold of you for 15 minutes. As technology makes progress by means of mass communication, personable communication is becoming more awkard and less acceptable. Person to person conversations are a thing of the past and communication is inturn becoming less personable, making us less connected. All kinds of information is being accessed from the internet and it easier now than ever to cheat through things and to steal people's idenity and ruin people's lives. Technology has ruined our lives.
In the world I live in if you don't drive a mercedes, bmw, or range rover, you or you're parents are not up to par. If you don't wear true religion jeans and carry a marc jacobs bag then you have no class. If you don't wear a pound of makeup and straighten your hair, then you are ugly. I was raised with hippie parents and raised not to give into society, but being schooled in a private school, I was taught to be quite the opposite. I've been so confused my whole life as to what I really want out of life. I'm not sure if I want to make a bunch of money and have a lot of things or if I want to make a decent amount and enjoy all the small things. I guess that decision comes to you as you grow and mature, but I feel very pressured to work my ass off to give all my money back to the man. So now more than ever I feel so torn. Do I work hard to become successful in the eyes of society or do I work hard to enjoy life and take it easy?
I perceive my popular culture as lively, fast paced, cutthroat, and materialistic. Music from previous decades expressed needs of love, clarity and compassion. The music of my generation is about showing off material items, bragging about how many women or men people have slept with, whining about how hard life is, and screaming about how depressed people are. As an oppressed society women are expected to be thin, have big boobs, big hips, big lip, a tiny waist and straight hair dressed in designer clothes with a Gucci bag on the shoulder. Men are expected to be tall, dressed to look like that have money and to show off any material possession they have. As time goes on, our generation is changing a bit from the gender roles our parents had and still follow, if you've got parents like mine. Our means of communication with the help of technology have rapidly expanded and now it's illegal to talk on the phonw while driving your BMW you're leasing. Heaven forbid someone can't get ahold of you for 15 minutes. As technology makes progress by means of mass communication, personable communication is becoming more awkard and less acceptable. Person to person conversations are a thing of the past and communication is inturn becoming less personable, making us less connected. All kinds of information is being accessed from the internet and it easier now than ever to cheat through things and to steal people's idenity and ruin people's lives. Technology has ruined our lives.
In the world I live in if you don't drive a mercedes, bmw, or range rover, you or you're parents are not up to par. If you don't wear true religion jeans and carry a marc jacobs bag then you have no class. If you don't wear a pound of makeup and straighten your hair, then you are ugly. I was raised with hippie parents and raised not to give into society, but being schooled in a private school, I was taught to be quite the opposite. I've been so confused my whole life as to what I really want out of life. I'm not sure if I want to make a bunch of money and have a lot of things or if I want to make a decent amount and enjoy all the small things. I guess that decision comes to you as you grow and mature, but I feel very pressured to work my ass off to give all my money back to the man. So now more than ever I feel so torn. Do I work hard to become successful in the eyes of society or do I work hard to enjoy life and take it easy?
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