Dear Mom:
After 3 weeks of study in culture study, I started to realize that culture is all the things that around us. I mean, is everywhere! For example, the cloths we wearing, the car we driving, everything is culture. Maybe is not very clear when I said it like this, let me explain to you more specifically.
There is an article called" The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity" is written by Susan Bordo. In the article, Susan talked about the idea that our behavior, our thought is influenced by the things around us. She gave us the example that how girls was always affected by the information around us which gave them the idea of how girls should look like and how they should react.
In my opinion, the idea Susan talked about is actually vey true. Because we are affected by the things around us. In my culture study course, we talked about object and subject. I think that subject and object are affected of each other all the time. Subject will affect object, and object will reflex subject and also affect subject.
Such as Internet! People invented internet because they found out that computer users sometimes need to communicate with each other in order to gather the of each others. So they invented internet! Internet this object was created by the subject us for our needs. However internet complete changed our ways of living, our ways of communication. In the old days, if we want to talk to a friend at a far place, we could write letters, we could make phone calls, but today we just need to login to Facebook! No matter where is that friend, as along he/she has a computer with internet connection, you could talk to him/her all the time! Even video chat!
This is a very great example for how subject and object affect each other! Of course, culture study is much more than this, but I can't explain all of them to you yet, because I'm still studying it. Well, at least this prove I learned something already. talk to you later!
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