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Essay On Media And Pop Culture

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Media and Pop Culture are two huge fields in today’s world that are exponentially growing and broadening their fan bases, but maybe their fan bases are expanding a little too much. The other day, I was sitting in the living room of our house in the weekend when my 9 year old nephew walked up to me with his iPad and asked me if I heard this new song that everyone has been talking about, I hadn’t heard the song and I told him so, he then played the song for me and I was speechless, not because of how good the song is, not because I admire the vocals, but because I was shocked that it is popular, I was surprised that a music video like this is aired on television without any regard to the children that could be watching. As we were surfing the internet we came across a website called 9gag which shows all the popular memes now and we came across one that I felt was quite offensive to my culture and my religion and sadly, that is a common theme for memes to smear the reputation of religions, culture and praise stereotypes like they are a good thing. People, including children, now a days are very much obsessed with pop stars and media personnel, to the point that they start to mimic what those celebrities do, try to look like them and act …show more content…

They could use the huge influence they have on the people to do greater good, like show the people their role models doing good instead of highlighting and dwelling on the times they do bad, this could create a positive change in the world and influence people to focus on their education more and deal with greater issues in life rather than just what would

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