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Issue 77
The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
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¿ªÍ·¶ÎÈ«ÎÄ£ºCultural expression and representation are pervasive in individual interations and the social structure. Thus, it plays an important role in understanding our human society. When it comes to the best way to understand the culture of the day, some contend that one should investigate the trends of the young generation. In my opinion, the crux of this question lies in which types of contemporary culture we are talking about. For music, the trends of youngsters should be the main subject of study in order to grasp the lastest fashion. For other forms of contemporary culture such as architecture and literature, we shoud mainly interview contemporary architectors and famous writers respectively rather than analyzing the trends of the youth.
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Studying the most popular genre and style of music among the young generation allows us to grasp culture and spirits they want to express behind the music in an efficient manner.
Example 1: latest gnre, hip-hop, R&B, character, rebellion, against authority
Example 2: Lyric analysis, key words, spirit, antiwar, peace, love
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While investigating the popular trends of music among youngsters could efficiently understand one part of contemporary culture, this principle does not hold true for architecture since the young generation are neither the main consumers nor the desigers in terms of architecture.
Example 1: Youth, large majority, passive recipient, less control over the style of design of architecture, cannot show the pattern of culture
Example 2: Architector, small group, unique concept in design, reflection of culture trend
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Likewise, we should also investigate the ideas of those contemporary writers to have a sense of the trends of contemporary culture since they are the main creators of literature genre as a part of cultural expression, rather than the opinions from the young people.
Example 1: Youth, guided by the writers, not knowing where heading for
Example 2: Writers, clear understanding of the trend of literature, their thoughts=soical reality=one facet of contemporary culture e.g.Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
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While investigating the popular trends of music among youngsters could efficiently understand one part of contemporary culture, this principle does not hold true for architecture since the young generation are neither the main consumers nor the desigers in terms of architecture. Since most of the young people are in the process of paying off all kinds of debts, they does not have much money at their disposal, thus having no say in the decision of the architecture design. In addition, most people pay much attention to the practical use of an apartment or a house while knowing less about their concepts and ideas behind the design. In this sense, we could get barely nothing by simplying investigating public opinions of architecture in order to grasp the contemporary culture. Instead, we should interview the designers and engineers of the building to know what are the notions behind the building and what kinds of materials and techniques are applied in the process of building up the architecture. Only in this way could we understand the trends of architecture today in order to have a clear understanding of contemporary culture. In sum, it is a wiser choice to investigate the ideas proposed by architectors and engineers rather than the opinions of the young generation to understand the dynamics of architecture and, thus, the patterns of contemporary culture.
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