Sunday, November 9, 2008
What does popular culture mean to me?
Popular culture is my family’s morals and values inspired by my parents and grandparents. For example, The Golden Rule, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Popular culture is reflecting on the days when I had one telephone in the household and one television with a rabbit ear antenna and three channels. Now, I have a landline telephone, a cordless telephone, and a cellular phone with a family plan. I have the opportunity to communication with family and friends anywhere in United States. I have a television in every room including the kitchen with cable and 100 channels, equipped with a DVD player. My grandchildren are thrilled when they visit, as grandmother has “Toon Disney”, and they can watch “Hannah Montana”, “Dora the Explorer”, “Zack and Cody”, and all the “Toys R Us” advertisements in between.
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CFoxx, I agree with you in the reflection of today's world versus yesterday's society. I am a product of generation X however, I grew up with a landline phone in one or two rooms and black and white TV's with antenna's and no remote. Although I have described to my children what the culture of my day was like, I don't think they can appreciate all that I went through, like not having cable all hours of the day because it didn't start until the evening hours,after I was in bed, or doing a research paper by actually going to a library and looking material up in a book or encyclopedia because there was no such thing as an internet. I believe the culture of today has given us faster tools to find the information we need but has also made us extremely lazy in the process.
I agree with you that the technology has improved fast for the last 20 years. Now we have the opportunitiy to communicate easily around the world. The more we live, the more the technology gets better.
I remember the golden rule! I grew up with a land line and if you took the cordless phone too far from the base it'd die or fade out.
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