My Reflection about Unit II (Pop culture)

        By reading the texts you gave us, I learned that all people have culture, some have high and some have low. Also, I learned about fads and trends and the differences between them, now I know trend is for long time and fad is for short time. By researching among websites and You Tube videos and TED talks, I learned about pop culture and how important it is. For instance, I learned from one of the TED talks videos that pop culture may change the future of children, how? The speaker mentioned that when she was child, she was a nerd and shy, her parents had put the name of a woman hero on her and bought her some comics books about this hero, she said this caused her feel well about herself and thought she is a hero. In bell hook video I learned that learning heavy sociology and political concepts can be easier through pop cultures such as movie, TV shows, and so on. By the fad presentation, I knew the old and recent fads, and I found out the differences between fad and trend. For-example, Converse shoes are trend, but Walkman was a fad because nobody uses Walkman these days, but there are a lot of people who use Converse shoes and it still are fashionable. My AHA moment was that I used to think that some people have no culture, and I believed that culture belonged to the elite and educated people, but I understood that this is not true, and everybody has culture. Also, before Unit II, I considered Pop culture with low esteem and I thought I am avoiding it, but it was wrong! I figured out that I used Pop culture whole my life, and everybody uses Pop culture during their life. In this case, the “What is Pop culture” sheet surprised me a lot! MYBumper Sticker is “If you want to know people, look at their favorite pop cultures!”, and it means that the pop cultures one is interested indicate their personality and taste. For example,if someone likes comics books, we can know his/her taste, or if someone likes American Wrestling, it shows their personality and taste.I did not know that Pop culture can change with time and becomes high culture or high culture becomes pop culture and it indicates relativism of Pop culture, which is interesting. I learned it from the paper sheet of “What is Pop culture?”, so all these sources helped me to form the concept of Pop culture.

Bumper Sticker: If you want to know people, look at their favorite Pop cultures!