Cultural generations

Every day, whether you are listening to the radio, watching TV, or even at school you will hear someone or a group of people talking about my generation (the Millennials) and how screwed or ignorant we are. In some ways they are right, but are we really as incompetent as they think? We know more about technology than our parents and grandparents, we are creative and optimistic when it comes to work, and we have a better understanding with the need to help others. Also, we stay connected to…

fictional characters whom through the different forms of media collectively create and become the foundations of our pop culture that heavily influence our lives from fashion, morality, political views, language and even our personalities. Unlike other generations, the increasing advances in technology and media platforms have provided unlimited access to more aspects of their heroes’ lives and Millennials try…

Members of the Lost Generation are known for being apathetic expatriates who go against traditional relationships, religion, and gender stereotypes. Since this generation is uncertain for their future, they don’t trust their political leaders and use alcohol to escape their reality. Generation Z is quite similar to the Lost Generation. Various people have argued that my generation is the next Lost Generation due to the indistinguishable qualities they share. Within the first chapter of The Sun…

The apology to the Stolen Generations was delivered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in the House of Representatives on the 13th February 2008. The national apology has become a symbol of hope for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders. Australia in modern day society are somewhat optimistic for the future of the relationship between both races. Attitudes to Indigenous lives and lifestyles, interactions and attitudes to personal involvement and cultural awareness and pride determines the quality of…

anthropology is the study of humans combining a biological and cultural perspective (MindEdge 1.05). Due to the complexity of humankind, anthropology can be broken down into four sub-fields; cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and biological/physical anthropology. Cultural anthropology is the study of how humans lived, and how their culture was handed down from generation to generation. Cultural anthropologists study a cultural society’s beliefs, ideals, artistic…

When the literature of beat generation first came, it was criticized by lots of people, since people thought the form and language are rough. It doubted and denied the traditional cultural value, but influenced descendant’s view of mainstream culture. As an Asian, I have to say that beat generation plays an essential role in propagating Zen and Buddhism, because many poets of beat generation write about Zen and Buddhism. The evolution of hip can be divided into six convergence, the first stage…

culture-enters the Beat Generation. The Beat Generation was a social and literary movement that was forming post World War II. The Beats were a group of writers that opposed conventional writing, spoke about issues regarding race, sex, and class, and rejected many cultural principles that was happening post war. The Origin of the Beats was in 1943, Allen Ginsberg meets Lucien Carr at Columbia University. Carr introduces Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. From there, the Beat…

depicted identity crisis of the first and second generation expatriates in her first novel The Namesake. This crisis is dealt through immigrant’s families and their internal and socio-cultural relations with the people of the foreign country. It deals with the cultural identity crisis which is faced by both the generation of the immigrants. In the case of the first generation, the immigrants face dilemma, consciousness of being an outsider and cultural identity crisis due to the language,…

even attack “counterrevolutionaries”. Often, education took a back seat to these revolutionary missions and children who were seen studying were viewed with suspicion (“Cultural Revolution”). Despite the revolutionary significance of this time period, the state of the Chinese education system during the early years of the Cultural Revolution was, to some extent, detrimental to the ideal China that Chairman Mao had envisioned. Not only did thousands of children lack proper education and…

the documentary, Generation Like, author and FRONTLINE correspondent Douglas Rushkoff dives into the massive obsession of social media and how the “like” button that throws kids into an abyss of identity and connection correlates with corporations discovering a way to generate revenue off of likes, retweets, and followers. Chris Rojek, author of Cultural Studies, delves into how social media creates this social phenomenon through cultural hybridity, and how corporations use cultural genre and…