As Unit 2 is called Introduction to Pop Culture, I think this unit should be like a warm up before we can go any further. In this unit we mainly learned about the four components of pop culture; people, objects, events, and places. Also we learned culture means of the people, and pop means popular, so it is not hard to understand that pop culture is about the majority of people.
In this unit, we were assigned with many researches and projects regarding the four components of pop culture, which helped me to form an outline about what we are going to focus on. After reading the Introduction to student, I also learned that pop culture is not fixed in time from an example of Shakespeare that he was only recognized by few people, but later on he became extremely popular. I think that is one of the reasons we did the research on trends and fads, because they may be reintroduced in the future.
Other than fads and trends, we also learned about people; public icons. And how did they become popular. As well as technology, and how are they related to each other.
There is another thing I found out very interesting from the youtube videos that so many people were asked about what American Culture is, and it turned out with all the funny answers. I think if I were asked the same question before, I wouldn’t know the answer either. Pop culture is very close to us, but we don’t notice. One time I was writing an essay about cross culture love, and I mentioned American culture. My friend Jun saw it and told me that there is no American culture. I asked why, but he couldn’t explain it very clearly. I think even we don’t call it American culture, but the character of the culture is very clear that it is mixed with some different cultures from all over the world. Therefore, learning pop culture is very important, and it will help us to have a good perspective when dealing with different people.
In the end, if there is a bumper sticker on my car after this unit, it would be “ I know American Culture”.
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