Pop-Culture

When i went to make my classes i chose the Pop-culture class without even getting a small idea what i'm  going to be studying. In these 5 weeks I've learned a lot about different cultures and how important a culture is. I've learned how a culture is like an ID for a person. I've also learned how America used to be a melting pot and how it now became a salad bowel, which is a wonderful thing. I think its wonderful because in this way people would remain with their cultures also people would become familiar with other cultures around the world without traveling to every place. we also learned about different songs and singers from old days and their songs had a meaning and an aim that they wanted to reach and i guess they did reach it.I think this is a great class and every student should take it. yes we read lots of hard readings but we still learn a lot of new things every time we read.

Palestine

Palestine is a country that connects the three continents Asia, Africa and Europe together.  Palestine turns out to be a country that has a great culture starting with both maps for Palestine and America than i had the flag for each country. after that i talked about food. I've chosen the popular Palestinian dish which is called "Mansaf". Mansaf is a dish made of lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt and served with rice. In my poster i mentioned Knafa is the Palestinian sweet. I picked Knafa because Palestine is very popular in making Knafa especially Nablus city. Jumping to popular Palestinian  people or personalities that effected me in my life first the one is the first Palestinian president. He made lots of things to get peace for Palestine and Israel but sad thing that he died on Nov 11,2004. Another person was Mahmoud Darwish was a popular Palestinian poet. Most of his poetries were about love and war over Palestine. Then i had my favorite singer and my favorite Palestinian dress. I mentioned the american fashion and makeup trends because we don't really find the good trends in Palestine. I also mentioned the fast food because in Palestine you wont really find people who eat fast food as their lunch meal. Palestinians like home made food more than fast food.     

Cultural Diveristy

I am glad to take this course. At first, I want to learn more about the culture of America. Second,   in this class, students come from different countries and have different culture background. But we can get along with each other. We can introduce ourselves and the traditional culture of our hometown. We can learn more information of different life ways. And the teacher is nice and smart. She can make some assignments to help us to learn more about the culture of America and let us understand the meaning of the culture diversity.

Indonesian Culture

Unity in Diversity, the national motto of Indonesia, is a term that strikes deep into the heart of this dynamic and attractive Southeast Asian nation. Few places offer such cultural variety and geographical complexity as Indonesia, and no two journeys here are ever alike.

For over a century, visitors have been drawn to the legend of Bali, guests from all over the world received a warm Balinese welcome. With Balinese culture prizing tolerance, tranquility and respect for each other and their guests. Bali is land of incredible contrast, offering something for everyone. It's a gorgeous, glittering tropical rave, where day turns into night, and night back into day with barely a pause for breath.

The magnificent Borobudur temple is the world’s biggest Buddhist monument, an ancient site widely considered to be one of the world’s seven wonders. This awe inspiring monument is truly a marvel. After a visit here you will understand why it is Indonesia’s most visited tourist attraction and a famous icon of Indonesia’s cultural heritage.

West Papua is home to the most ethnologically primitive cultures on Earth. No less than 25% of the world's languages are spoken here and obviously you will find a vast display of tribes and tribal customs. These are people largely unaffected by the strictures of the modern world as we know it; a race adapted to daily life solely through their basic survival elements.

Learning Pop culture is really Useful :)

Popular culture is really useful for every body because we learn about behave and culture other people in the World . Pop culture the entirety of ideas , Pop refers more specifically to something containing qualities of mass appeal, while "popular" refers to what has gained popularity, regardless of its stylePopular culture changes constantly and occurs uniquely in place and time .Many cultural critics have dismissed this as merely a symptom or side-effect of mass consumerism .
I think this class help me about other culture and I learn new things from my classmate , It is reaaly interesting :)

IRAN was the world the became the third :( 

Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilization. The first dynasty in Iran formed during the Elamite kingdom in 2800 BC. The Iranian Medes unified Iran into an empire in 625 BC .The name of Iran (ایران) is the Modern Persian derivative from the Proto- Iranian term Aryana , meaning "Land of the Aryans", first attested in Zoroastrianism's Avesta tradition .

Wrap Up- American Cultural Diversity

From this class , I learned that American culture is unique because it is nurtured, formed and developed under certain conditions, which are characteristically American. The major factors contributing to the making of this nation and the forming of a new culture are the hard environment, ethnic diversity and plural religion, which is quite different from other nations in the world. What is more, these elements are still influencing the American culture.

America is a country with multiple ethnic groups and cultures. People learn from each other and cultures also evolve and change with the development of the society. Therefore America is sometimes considered as a melting-pot. However some people disagree and thinks different cultures in the society still keep their own identities and therefore it is more of a salad bowl than melting pot.

The salad bowl concept suggests that the integration of the many different cultures of United States residents combine like a salad, as opposed to the more prolific notion of a cultural melting pot. In the salad bowl model, various American cultures are juxtaposed — like salad ingredients — but do not merge together into a single homogeneous culture. Each culture keeps its own distinct qualities. This idea proposes a society of many individual, "pure" cultures, and the term has become more politically correct than melting pot, since the latter suggests that ethnic groups may be unable to preserve their cultures. The salad bowl has been accused of being a communitarianist model, while supporters of it speak of multiculturalism.

I am very interested in American culture, I wonder to learn more about it from this class.