introduction to popular culture in Hong Kong. Students will learn to assess for themselves the form‚ meaning and significance of popular culture‚ as well as to analyse the formation of cultural and social identity of Hong Kong people through concrete case studies. Students will study popular culture as something more than leisurely entertainment: it is a cultural process already inscribed in relations of power. Students will be asked to analyse the politics of Hong Kong popular culture in its particular
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Additionally‚ the United States is considered a low-context culture in relation to the Denmark‚ “however‚
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Allen High School in Dallas‚ Texas spent $ 60 million on a football stadium. The same Allen High School‚ according to U.S. News‚ ranks 1‚543 among Texas high schools. This is just a recent example of the overarching problem with America’s high schools. This problem stems from the domination of extracurricular activities‚ especially sports‚ to the detriment of academic culture‚ the ultimate purpose of American secondary education. Bard College president‚ Leon Botstein‚ argued that American high schools’
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When I Grow Up: An Analytical Study of the Interpretations of Children on Pop Culture Elements found in Selected TV Commercials “TV takes our children across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the streets.” - Joshua Meyrowitz BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Advertising is a form of mass communication strategy created to promote the purchase of a certain product‚ message‚ or service in the market. It carries the messages that come to you from the people who pay for the media (Biagi
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Popular film and media have become prominent sources of influence over contemporary society. Mitchell & Weber (1999) suggests that this is because “the knowledge and images that are embedded in popular culture might be taken as common ground” (p. 164). The representation of teachers in filmic bodies has generated clichés and stereotypes of ‘larger than life teachers’ that have had irrefutable influence on how the ‘everyday teacher’ is viewed by society and how the practice has been shaped. In
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subordination between high and low classes. Third one is the power of laughter that gave the ability to ridicule the feudal system‚ which had permeated human life. This paper will argue that the culture proposed by the Catholic Church and feudal system was opposed with the creation of popular culture and it led to the creation of purely human relations within the carnival. By the Carnival‚ Bakhtin means the specific popular tradition in the medieval Europe. Bakhtin argues that the culture of the Middle
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The Role of Local Culture and Context in English Language Teaching -Mabindra Regmi The Relation between Language and Culture The structuralists portrayed language as an entity that could be segmented and through learning these segments‚ the totality would also be learnt. This method has been tested‚ challenged and in many cases discarded in the world of linguistics. The conception‚ propagation and inevitable discontinuation of ever new methods has prompted Sowden to express “there has indeed been
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Culture Influences through Mass Media Our culture is highly influenced by mass media by promoting celebrities and ordinary people who do astonishing things into a stereotype that we base our lives on. Society as a whole is represented in the mass media and impacts our culture and how we relate on a daily basis. As much as we would like to believe that we have control over our own lives‚ the mass media impacts the way we see gender roles‚ use symbols‚ distinguish between high and popular culture
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“The ruling ideas of the age are ever the ideas of the ruling class.” – Marx & Engles High culture is characterised by timeless artefacts that shape and reflect the taste of those of the ‘high class’. In the past‚ before the introduction of popular culture‚ it was the ‘ruling classes’‚ the people with the money‚ power and status that defined what was considered to be of a high quality hence a part of ‘high society’. It was these people who outlined what was ‘good’ and what was ‘bad’‚ what was acceptable
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The definition of the term‚ popular culture‚ is not definitive. Each individual’s feelings toward the term may differ depending on their own standard of beliefs‚ values‚ and social behavior. In general‚ culture has to be accepted by the majority of the particular community‚ depending on the ideas and phenomena it entails. In Stuart Hall’s “Notes on Deconstructing ‘The Popular’”‚ he defines popular culture in a unique‚ thoughtful way. Hall agrees that popular culture involves society accepting new visions
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