Showing posts with label Yu Su. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yu Su. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Why should we study popular culture?
After having studied pop culture this semester, I realized that there are so many things need to learn about culture. Although pop culture is around me, I have never tried to understand it before.
We are surrounded with many technological and information advancements in this age, popularity changes much faster than before. People can get information from everywhere, social networks, televisions, newspapers. People are not worrying about where to get information, but sometimes they worries about how they can get rid of overloaded information. However, people are in pop culture, but they have never tried to analyze it.
Thinking about the meanings behind pop culture is an interesting thing to study.Pop culture is something that we have to confront everyday and everywhere， so it covers a lot of areas. Financial crisis can impact the thesis of pop culture. Mass shooting may have something to do with social medias. How about food? Is it related with pop culture? More female managers or male managers in you workplace? Are people addicted to facebook or twitter? Have people ever thought that those things have relations with pop culture? People are annoyed by so much information, but they can actually find rules in there.
Studying soap operas, reality shows, or social networks are not a waste of time at all. All the people can find something useful in pop culture. A lot of companies are more and more putting emphasis on social networks to promote their product, and some of them get a big success because they have studied pop culture.
We are surrounded with many technological and information advancements in this age, popularity changes much faster than before. People can get information from everywhere, social networks, televisions, newspapers. People are not worrying about where to get information, but sometimes they worries about how they can get rid of overloaded information. However, people are in pop culture, but they have never tried to analyze it.
Thinking about the meanings behind pop culture is an interesting thing to study.Pop culture is something that we have to confront everyday and everywhere， so it covers a lot of areas. Financial crisis can impact the thesis of pop culture. Mass shooting may have something to do with social medias. How about food? Is it related with pop culture? More female managers or male managers in you workplace? Are people addicted to facebook or twitter? Have people ever thought that those things have relations with pop culture? People are annoyed by so much information, but they can actually find rules in there.
Studying soap operas, reality shows, or social networks are not a waste of time at all. All the people can find something useful in pop culture. A lot of companies are more and more putting emphasis on social networks to promote their product, and some of them get a big success because they have studied pop culture.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
When girls started getting better performance than boys in schools?
I have seen several reports about
girls doing better than boys in schools. Some people believe that is because the
educational system nowadays more focus on memory and recite, and the others believe
that the reasons are girls work harder and desire to succeed. In addition, more
and more girls who do not have clear characteristics of female become popular
now. Their target audience are wider, not only boys but girls. Girls around me
are becoming more independent. They wear short hairs, do not wear dresses, and
do not expect help from boys. Whatever the reasons of these phenomena, the
result is that girls seem get higher status now.
However, do girls really become
more powerful nowadays? From the definition from class, empowered girls reject
boys, are social, are the lead, are complicated or contradictory, and are “real”.
Actually, those empowered girls are not those who are neutral in appearance,
but those who look like “girls” and also have desire to control. Those empowered
girls are like princesses. To some extent, it is a good thing, because they
want to fight for themselves. At the same time, they will be spoiled and become
out of control. They will get mad easily, focus too much on appearance, and
expect the coming of princes. If those empowered act this way, they will be loss
their power.
The girls seem have made progress
in fighting for equal power for themselves, but they must be very careful or
they will be taken advantages of.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
"homosexuality" is popular on T.V.
When Ellen came out of the closet, she was nervous and painful but did not want to keep the secret anymore. In the class discussion, students talked about the way Ellen coming out, and if Ellen did not do like that, she would not successful now. They are right. However, as time goes by, today's situation is different from Ellen's, and "homosexuality" is popular on T.V.now.
The "homosexuality" doesn't mean that gay singers,actors can come out of the closet without hesitation, but this fake "homosexuality" --two guys seems have some romantic relationship, can attract more audience.
The English diver, Tom Daley, was straight and had several girlfriend, are now dating with a man now. After this announcement of Tom, he became more popular and many talk show asked him to tell his feeling about this change. It seems like in one night, Tom became the positive image of tell the truth bravely. On the contrary, the figure skater, Johnny Weir was treated unfairly on the Olympic games because of his girly costume style and sexual orientation. The differences between those two guys are obvious. Tom is not a gay because he likes woman, but Johnny is totally a gay since he was young. Tom is still a man because he wears and talks just like a normal man, but Johnny wears make-up,wears heels and that is not a man's style. Both of them did not keep their sexual orientation as a secret but ended up differently. So what is the problem? Have people made progress that they can treat gay normally? I think the answer is still NO.Tom is popular on T.V.because audience can treat Tom the same kind of people as them,but not Johnny.
And not just them, the producers of soap operas also have noticed that. The Sherlock Holmes from BBC is a typical example. The relationship between Sherlock and Watson is extremely different from before. They are like friends, but not just friends; they are not lovers, but they always act like lovers. This difference is new and attracting. As we all know, this opera was a huge success, not just in Britain, but all over the world.
The "homosexuality" doesn't mean that gay singers,actors can come out of the closet without hesitation, but this fake "homosexuality" --two guys seems have some romantic relationship, can attract more audience.
The English diver, Tom Daley, was straight and had several girlfriend, are now dating with a man now. After this announcement of Tom, he became more popular and many talk show asked him to tell his feeling about this change. It seems like in one night, Tom became the positive image of tell the truth bravely. On the contrary, the figure skater, Johnny Weir was treated unfairly on the Olympic games because of his girly costume style and sexual orientation. The differences between those two guys are obvious. Tom is not a gay because he likes woman, but Johnny is totally a gay since he was young. Tom is still a man because he wears and talks just like a normal man, but Johnny wears make-up,wears heels and that is not a man's style. Both of them did not keep their sexual orientation as a secret but ended up differently. So what is the problem? Have people made progress that they can treat gay normally? I think the answer is still NO.Tom is popular on T.V.because audience can treat Tom the same kind of people as them,but not Johnny.
And not just them, the producers of soap operas also have noticed that. The Sherlock Holmes from BBC is a typical example. The relationship between Sherlock and Watson is extremely different from before. They are like friends, but not just friends; they are not lovers, but they always act like lovers. This difference is new and attracting. As we all know, this opera was a huge success, not just in Britain, but all over the world.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
using yin yang to explain gender problems
When the professor said yin yang in the class, I was little surprised and excited because I knew this word. The professor used this word to illustrate some example about male and female.
From my point of view, yin yang talks about two opposed things, and those two things can represent almost everything, like black and white, female and male, darkness and lightness, bad things and good things. Although it describes two opposed things, but the relationship between those two are very complicated. From the image of yin yang we can tell that there is not a clear line between them, and some black exists in white and some white exists in black.
Yin yang not only can exhibit Chinese philosophy, but it can also suitable for the topic of feminism. To talk about female and male, the first and the most important thing is to know that they are different. Men and women cannot exist solely without the other and it doesn't mean women must marry a man. Men have labels like strong, brave, good at science, and women also have labels like sensitive, gentle and soft. But at the very beginning,I think these characteristics do not have relationship with gender. Women also need to be brave to give birth to a child, men also need be sensitive enough to observe others. The combination of those two must be the most solid and long-lasting relationship.
For men and women, the differences are not strange,but the way people treat those difference are strange.
From my point of view, yin yang talks about two opposed things, and those two things can represent almost everything, like black and white, female and male, darkness and lightness, bad things and good things. Although it describes two opposed things, but the relationship between those two are very complicated. From the image of yin yang we can tell that there is not a clear line between them, and some black exists in white and some white exists in black.
Yin yang not only can exhibit Chinese philosophy, but it can also suitable for the topic of feminism. To talk about female and male, the first and the most important thing is to know that they are different. Men and women cannot exist solely without the other and it doesn't mean women must marry a man. Men have labels like strong, brave, good at science, and women also have labels like sensitive, gentle and soft. But at the very beginning,I think these characteristics do not have relationship with gender. Women also need to be brave to give birth to a child, men also need be sensitive enough to observe others. The combination of those two must be the most solid and long-lasting relationship.
For men and women, the differences are not strange,but the way people treat those difference are strange.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Food Inc and tortured animals
We watched the "Food Inc" in class, judging from the reaction, I believe many students there would not eat meat at that day just like me.
The animals in this video are born and designed to be killed and eaten. They are chickens but they are not like chickens in our common sense because they just can take a few steps at one time and have huge breasts. They live in crowded and dirty factories and the most important work is to eat that people can sell them and earn money in a short cycle. Those scenes always remind me the marginal cases I learned in my philosophy class.
The marginal cases raised a question: why animals like pig, cow and chicken have lower status than pets like cats or dogs. Many people consider pets as their family members and treat them at a much higher level than animals in factory. And some animal rights campaigners fight against who tortures pets a lot but not animals in factories. It is the time to do something for animals in factories, they are treated like that not because they do not have intelligence but for the human beings' selfishness.
On the other side, eating healthy is another key phrase in today's trend. It is absolutely not healthy to eat chickens who are dirty, feed with hormone, infected by other died chicken, or full of fat. The way to change this situation can be designed as a trend: eat organic food and eat healthy.
The animals in this video are born and designed to be killed and eaten. They are chickens but they are not like chickens in our common sense because they just can take a few steps at one time and have huge breasts. They live in crowded and dirty factories and the most important work is to eat that people can sell them and earn money in a short cycle. Those scenes always remind me the marginal cases I learned in my philosophy class.
The marginal cases raised a question: why animals like pig, cow and chicken have lower status than pets like cats or dogs. Many people consider pets as their family members and treat them at a much higher level than animals in factory. And some animal rights campaigners fight against who tortures pets a lot but not animals in factories. It is the time to do something for animals in factories, they are treated like that not because they do not have intelligence but for the human beings' selfishness.
On the other side, eating healthy is another key phrase in today's trend. It is absolutely not healthy to eat chickens who are dirty, feed with hormone, infected by other died chicken, or full of fat. The way to change this situation can be designed as a trend: eat organic food and eat healthy.
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