Amid transient movements that attempt to define the 21st century, significant pop culture moments can create a lasting impact. “We Are One (Ole Ola)”, the anthem of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, is eminent to pop culture. This was popular at its time because the message of the song was not representative of the organization that it promoted. Modern-day pop...
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Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein has held much influence in culture throughout its time since its release to culture today. The novel focuses on a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who gives life to his creation out of old body parts. Once Frankenstein discovers this creation is not what he imagined, he, along with mankind, rejects the hideous creature leaving him sad...
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In the popular film, Chungking Express, Faye the antagonist of the film draws a picture of a boarding pass to signify that her crush, a police officer, should visit her in a year. For days, I could not understand why she would have him wait so long, especially if she was so obsessed with being ensconced within his house and...
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The term “Architectural ethnography” consists of two words “architectural” and “ethnography”. In the dictionary, the noun “architecture” is defined as “a physical enclosure that protects and supports human life and activities”, while “ethnography” is about the “representation of a society and culture of a specific ethnic group based on fieldwork”. Powell further explained “ethnography” in his article Viewing Places: Students...
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The topic I chose is the athletic clothing brand Adidas. Adidas, the second largest activewear brand in the world, is a multinational corporation brand that designs and manufactures shoes, accessories, and apparel. This brand has been striving to build on a passion for a “sporting look lifestyle and sports.” This brand’s apparel and shoes have always caught my attention with...
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Music has more influence over large groups of people than any other cultural product. With the power to unify, bridge, build, or protest, music can connect large groups of people to transform values, patterns, and habits. With the ability to provide an incredibly comprehensive framework to package and present a viewpoint or an idea, music serves to open up conversations...
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Based on our most recent census, Canada like many other developed nations encompasses an ethnically diverse populace that contains more immigrants than non-immigrants. Canada has offered protection to individuals fleeing persecution, individuals desiring an increased standard of living, and much more. As the Minister of Immigration, my commitment to all Canadians is to provide a smooth integration of immigrants into...
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Interestingly, the narrator highlights the ‘fragments of otherness in [her] body’ and yet chooses to dismiss them through his hunger to find beauty. When he first meets her eyes, he notes that they hold a strange look of greed, amounting to craving’ within them. According to Carolyn Burdett eyes are ‘one of the most prominent mystery tropes in Gothic fiction…...
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Introduction Experiencing culture shock is a multifaceted process that is often both intellectually stimulating and emotionally challenging. As defined by Oberg (1960), culture shock is "the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse." This essay delves into my personal experience with culture shock, which unfolded during a semester abroad in Tokyo, Japan. My...
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Abstract Culture shock is “the impact of traveling from a familiar culture and trying to adjust to an unfamiliar one.” Something I experienced for the first time in my life. Leaving a carefree and independent life in America where everything is done the proper way, to thousands of miles away in India where everything was the complete opposite. The endless...
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America today is omnipresent, but take us back 100 years and you find much more defined straight and narrow socio-cultural boundaries. Those who came to America during the earlier immigration waves were forced to experience a much different reality than they anticipated with the American way of life including different cultural values than the rest of the world like individual...
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The term popular culture refers to practices, beliefs, and objects in a society that represent anything that is considered fashionable, popular, or dominant at any given time (Ashby, 2010). Fiske defines popular culture as “a culture of processes rather than of products”. It is the accumulation of cultural products such as music, art, film, literature, dance, cyberculture, television, and radio...
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“Fashion thrives on its reputation for being lawless and the most famous notions of irresponsibility have captured the media and gained public recognition.” Lucy Siegle, journalist, founder of Observer Ethical Awards, and TV presenter. The concept of ethical fashion, it’s not new, although it is a substantial topic of discussion in the industry at this moment in time as climate...
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Introduction K-pop is a genre of music that originated in South Korea. While its earliest form dates back to the 90s, with Seo Taiji and the Boys, this industry doubled its growth rate in the mid-2000s in the Korean and international markets as well. During these years the concept of idols grew with the genre itself and became a representative...
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Australia is one of the most multicultural countries in the world. It is therefore essential that Australian society has access to the literature exploring the stories and experiences of people from multicultural backgrounds. Multicultural literature must authentically explore the challenges of people from diverse backgrounds, adjusting to a culture different from their own. 'Growing Up Asian in Australia' by Alice...
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In this essay, I will be exploring how urban youth cultures in today's society provide a sense of identity and belonging to many of its members. I will be sincerely analyzing how gang culture provides that sense of belonging, and there are both positive and negative outcomes of feeling like you have an identity from being a part of gang...
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When I was assigned an ethnographic essay as my first anthropology assignment, I was undoubtedly confused as to what topic I should write on. Feeling slightly defeated, I stumbled into the tram to go home. I stood in front of a girl facing her as there was barely any space to do otherwise. All was well until I looked up...
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The traditions of mythical storytelling organically developed as a way for human civilizations to relate to one another. This process of storytelling dates back to what antiquity recalls as the Paleolithic prehistory. At least, that’s as far as we can date back to early mankind’s prehistoric rock art. It is this shared cultural experience of storytelling, a deeply woven use...
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Whether it be through voices or instruments, music has always played an important role in mankind. Throughout time, music has evolved, and today music is split up into many different genres and sub-genres. Two extremely popular genres of music are pop and hip-hop. Pop is usually defined as music that is ‘catchy’ and ‘likable’. The genre covers a wide range...
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Picture this: you are a black teenager who constantly fears being bullied by your peers. You are continually being targeted as a racial minority. The negative stereotypes associated with your race are generalized about you. At home, bullying follows you, as the accessibility of the Internet has surged and cyberbullying is now another form to engage in bullying. Schools view...
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Selena Quintanilla, widely known as Selena, was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter, and fashion icon. Born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas, Selena rose to fame as the "Queen of Tejano Music" and left an indelible mark on the music industry before her tragic death in 1995. Her life and career continue to inspire and resonate with people around...
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Movies are one of the many forms of popular culture. Even though popular culture comes with various definitions, it is a culture that is favored by the mass media. Moreover, psychology can be a component of popular culture. A psychological concept that can be in movies is intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. The textbook, Human Development for Nursing, by Reilly (2020),...
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Swing music (1935-1945) marked a shift in jazz from improvisation to notated music and larger ensembles known as 'big bands.' Because of the size of the ensembles, which were made up of several horns, reed instruments, and percussion, swing required simplified written arrangements. Swing was typically more repetitious, and pop-friendly than other forms of jazz. Swing music is the closest...
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It seems as though people have worshiped artists/celebrities for as long as they have been around, but what is it that makes them so desirable and makes their music speak out to the world? Fans from all over the world are inspired by artists like Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift. But not just by their music which is...
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Ethnography is the systematic finding out about a unique crew of people based upon large subject work in one or extra selected locals. Contemporary ethnography includes the use of sound and digital platforms. These contemporary ethnographic tactics consist of sonic, visible, and digital ethnography. They have extra value discounts and extra fee effective, extra genuine responses, extensive time saving, safe...
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Humanity has always sought to capture certain moments and feelings and that way give it immortality. Hence film, bearing the features of an art form operating within the narration of time and space seemed to be a perfect medium. The world of film seems to support the illusion of immortal and immutable reality in the likeness of artificial sleep and...
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In the 1970s, Marvel comics and DC comics released stories that had black leading superhero roles with supporting black characters. These stories were released under a film genre called “Blaxploitation” which featured hyper-masculine black leading roles (Lendrum, 2005) with stereotypical “difficult” black female as their supporting characters. In the Blaxploitation genre, black leading roles were written and directed by white...
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Introduction Multi-national companies are increasingly prevalent in today’s global market, however cross-cultural competence including communication is a core aspect. Cross-cultural competence is integral to communications and having global companies work with teams in different countries; it is about understanding one’s own culture and that of the counterparts with varied values, belief systems, attitudes and language and adjusting communication to befit...
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Ethnography exists as an integral component of contemporary anthropology, allowing for the exploration and understanding of culture through the study of subjects and their behaviours in given situations. The practice enables the documentation of accounts of livelihood; producing credible accounts wherein knowledge and understanding is received through observation and immersion with participants to form a representation of a community or...
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Autoethnography approaches research and writing to describe and analyze personal experiences to understand cultural experiences. This treats research as a political, socially just and conscious act. Autoethnography is made up of autobiographies and ethnographers, making it both a process and a product. Crisis of confidence introduced new opportunities to reform social science and reimagine objectives and forms of social science...
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