Throughout the article Greenfeld makes the point that we need to be culturally literate to make it through a conversation, instead of expressing how a conversation should be an enjoyable experience. Greenfeld says that we try to “survive” the conversation, and with that thinking we are never going to make closer relationships. With this logic, we are going to “learn” events to simply make it through awkward small talk rather than make connections. We need to be able to make these connections and while cultural literacy can be the first step to talking to people, it does not allow for lasting communication. With a world becoming more technical we need to place more value in face-to-face conversation and not just survive a meeting we have with someone. Greenfeld discusses that conversation cannot happen without cultural literacy, however, I strongly disagree. This article manipulates how the reader looks at conversation and devalues genuine conversation. Cultural literacy does nothing to help improve our relationships with people. As a society, we have become more distant by having the world at our fingertips, and it has become evident with our everyday conversation. We need to be able to step out of the comfort zone of talking about the latest new trend and start making real connections with people. We do not need to fall back on cultural literature, we need to be able to make connections with people. We need to stop placing so much value on making conversation about pop culture, and to start bringing more value to actual
Throughout the article Greenfeld makes the point that we need to be culturally literate to make it through a conversation, instead of expressing how a conversation should be an enjoyable experience. Greenfeld says that we try to “survive” the conversation, and with that thinking we are never going to make closer relationships. With this logic, we are going to “learn” events to simply make it through awkward small talk rather than make connections. We need to be able to make these connections and while cultural literacy can be the first step to talking to people, it does not allow for lasting communication. With a world becoming more technical we need to place more value in face-to-face conversation and not just survive a meeting we have with someone. Greenfeld discusses that conversation cannot happen without cultural literacy, however, I strongly disagree. This article manipulates how the reader looks at conversation and devalues genuine conversation. Cultural literacy does nothing to help improve our relationships with people. As a society, we have become more distant by having the world at our fingertips, and it has become evident with our everyday conversation. We need to be able to step out of the comfort zone of talking about the latest new trend and start making real connections with people. We do not need to fall back on cultural literature, we need to be able to make connections with people. We need to stop placing so much value on making conversation about pop culture, and to start bringing more value to actual