Thoughts About Popular Culture: Looking at The Faces of Popular Culture
In a Political Science course that I took, my professor once argued that the Western way of thinking is caged in this yes-or-no, black-or-white, and good-or-bad model. It is a way of thinking that makes it difficult to see beyond the processes of Westernization and colonization and the consequences these processes have on indigenous cultures, which has shaped the way that popular culture is defined. But, as is argued in this article, there are more than just the obvious traditions of the modern world. This article seems to suggest a new way of looking at culture, one that does not consider one type of culture, but one that accepts that multiple can exist and effect one another simultaneously. The Spanish arriving to Latin America definitely changed how indigenous populations lived, but it was not just that the Spanish implanted their way of thinking and the indigenous people ran with that. It might be considered that the modern-day cultures that have arisen are just versions of mod...