Unit 2 Reflection

            In section 2, I learned more ideas of what popular culture is about. While I learn more about Pop Culture, we read articles about pop culture, learning about how stars become stars, star presentations, doing research about fads and trends. These activities are fun and interesting. It is a step by step process brings me and our classmates into the ‘play’. During the star presentations project I know many stars that are famous but I never heard of. But the important thing is, a star becomes a star he/she overcoming obstacles to success own a huge part in their star road. I never expect this will reminds me of what I need to do to move on in my life. There are many small or large obstacles waiting for people to overcome to move on, if not they will just stand in the same spot forever or fallen. For example, if a star has the potential of becoming a trend, but if the star stopped by an obstacle, then the star will only become a fad.  I didn’t know that pop culture is part of our life. It includes culture no matter they are low or high. In the ‘pop culture studies’ websites I found out popular culture is a universal language. This means things from popular culture could be a conversation starter with stranger or friends. I think I will be interest by pop culture even after I graduate college. This unit is just like a “light in the darkness” to me. I can’t wait to move on to the next unit.

Fad and Star

Fad
The Black Jack chewing gum from the 1950s

It is one of the first gum series. It become the 'new york no.1' later in 1980s.

My star presentation

Kobe Bryant

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Unit 1 reflection

            Pop culture, the first sight I read this title I have no idea of what it’s really about. Now, I can tell a little bit about it. It’s about culture. I never know that much about culture before I took this class. My aha moment was culture is not that simple. Before, “Culture is just culture, there is nothing special?” will be what I know. Now, I could tell no matter where you came from, we can share our culture. It comes from our ancestor learned and pass from generation to generation. During each time period, it will come up with some new things apply to it, and it will also goes to the next generation. It is in the sight, symbolically express and transmitted in our daily life. We have drew a picture of “Ice Berg”, to have idea how culture is like. It shows 90% is under the water. They are out of awareness and have no specific rules. The 10% above water are in awareness. They are the things in sight and you could tell. Everybody have a cultural identity. We are lucky that we are in the United States so we can see culture diversity from different countries come together looks like a ‘salad bowl’. Maybe we will got shocked in the beginning, but after we getting used to it and overcome then it will be fun. I didn’t know that after this class I will have more topics to talk with my friends. Before, almost nobody will have topics from their class to talk with. It is like “The departure of freshness” expressing the essence of this unit. I’m looking forward to what is the next unit is about.

Cultural Identity Poster

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Hi, my name is Ken. I'm from China.

The first thing I'm going to talk about is Tea. Most of you must drink different kind to tea before. Maybe from England, India, or America. But China, you could say is the ancestor of tea. We got so many types of tea and forms the Culture of Tea a few thousand years ago.

Holiday, the main two holiday for Chinese are Chinese New Year and Moon Festival. No matter where are you(Chinese) in the world right now, you must remember this two. Chinese New Year is for everyone, and Moon festival is for family gather.

You must heard of the Great Wall even you've never been to China. It's one of the miracle in the world from 3,000 years ago. It's 2,000 miles long. It came from the idea of fence. A lot of houses have fences outside of them. The Great Wall, is the fence of the country. It first came up from defend the enemy from the north.

Cheongsam, this is the only classical dresses people still wearing. It usually appear in some high culture party.

Guangzhou, the city that I came from. It is not well-known as Beijing or Shanghai in the world. But they're the same level of cities in China.

Voki

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Hello!!