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Fresh Off The Boat: The Influences Of Pop Culture

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Pop culture refers to anything that exists mainstream entertainment, it’s social life most actively involved in by the public, it also affects people of all ages. The ways that the pop culture can influence people by TV, film, and music. Pop culture is everywhere and almost impossible to avoid. Every single day, every single person is exposed to some sort of media. TV, film being the big one being that gives anyone freedom to watch and pay attention, some people may say popular culture help us to understand more about the world because of the globalization factor but the point in every young person’s life when they have a rude awakening about how they fit into the world. This point came when I watched the movie “Fresh Off the Boat” also I read …show more content…

It’s happening everywhere, so people who are non-white or white are unavoidable. People from other countries, or non-white always find the way to belong this popular culture in America and enjoy the ways of popular culture. There are many ideas thrown around as to how pop culture began, though the truth lies in the history of mankind. Before people were able to travel and experience difference groups of people, people predominantly stayed in the same kind of area with the same kind of people. We feared things that were different, and were lacked the power to face those kinds of things. All this changed once we did, in fact, obtain this level of human advancement, but the fear never drifted. The truth is, racism began as soon as people faced those of different races for who are non-white. We’ve always the fear of change, in the movie “Blackish” and “Fresh Off the Boat”, it’s two favorite movies for who are non-white (I guess), because the movie which feature non-white people talking candidly about race, the movie also show that black people are always lower class, and love wearing Jordans and playing basketball, …show more content…

It was inevitable that pop culture would circle back around on itself to address how white people feel about racism in America. But the part of the movie about some of the recent depictions of white men who either feel guilty about their racial privilege or learn more about the realities of racism in America is just how useless their raised realization seems. For the chapter 8 “33” from Sex, Drug, and Cocoa Puffs, Klosterman thinks very clear about pop culture he expects before. For the first start he state that “A black guy and a white guy are going to get into an argument over basketball, and the debate will focus on the fact that the black guy loves the Lakers and the white guy loves the Celtics.” and he explains how the 1980s rivalry between the Lakers team and Celtics team symbolizes all rivalries in life, including politics, religion and race. He compared and contrasted all

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