Growing Up Research Paper

Growing up I always thought everyone, in every country lived just like me. I thought they went through the same situations, celebrated the same holidays, thought the way I did… lived the same way I did. I was too young to understand that the world was different than the small part I belonged to. Even as I got older and learned more, I would often forget that my world was not somebody else’s. I loved learning about other countries cultures, religions, languages, and daily lives. To me it was a way to put myself in someone else’s shoes, it was like reading a book of a whole other world. It was attractive to me to learn about other’s lives, to see what was ordinary to them, to see how shocking my world was to them as their world was to me. My …show more content…
It was so shocking to me and left me very confused. But I liked the song, it was catchy and upbeat, but the video was so strange and foreign to me. The first scene is a young man sitting on a damaged, almost post-apocalyptic, cement throne with his hair shaved on one side and almost 8 feet long, bright orange extensions on the other that trailed to the floor and mixed in with similar colored wires. The man is wearing a black and white vertical striped suit and holing a bejeweled cane. From the first scene it was so drastically different than western style music videos. I was used to seeing a nice camera angle shot of the singer or an actor going about their everyday life, maybe a dance number in thrown into the plot. But this video had masks, weird hats, a guy in a picture frame, a frozen man, and a …show more content…
I tried to see how much of a song I could understand, how many Korean words I could understand from these songs. It was fun for me to try and recognize the words, it was like a game. That’s how I realized that I enjoy learning foreign languages, that’s why I always liked hearing other languages growing up. My mother told her friend that had moved here from South Korea a while back that I had been listening to this one Korean band and she was really pleased and happy that I was interested in something from her home country. She ended showing and teaching me about Korean culture and introducing me to websites and people I could talk to that would teach me about the culture and language. She even took me to celebrate a Korean holiday with her church, and brought me back gifts from her trip back to see her