Blog#7

Pop Culture!



Pop culture has developed just as rapidly as communication technologies over the last 60 years. Inventions like the television and cellphone have had a profound effect on our culture. No age group has experienced a greater impact than the adolescents of today. Many teens are so consumed with pop culture they do not realize it. The media has shaped teens into clones of pop teen icons. Teens care too much about what others think to be themselves. The main source of this problem is Hollywood, MTV, Much Music, BET and teen magazines.

I think teens are old enough to believe whatever they want but this love for pop culture starts to become a problem when their younger siblings start to imitate their older brothers and sisters. I've noticed the passed few years, while walking through Square One, more and more pre-pre-teens are starting to dress and act like teens. I've seen ten year old white kids wearing Fubu sweaters and talking like "ganstas." I remember when I was ten all I wanted to do was play street hockey with my friends. Now kids want to go to the mall, dress like teens and carry around cellphones. Kids are losing their innocence at a much younger age and its sad.

Article relating to this topic
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061126/ap_on_re_us/teen_tweens

This song by Every Time I Die is all about going against pop culture.