Pop Culture: The Influence Of Popular Culture

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Pop Culture is one powerful thing, it can be used to influence other people however using this may give an outcome wherein the influenced people will or may use it as a weapon to fight for what they think is wrong. (Lumbera, 1984) One author, naming Sir Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin, once stated that teaching Pop Culture will be a little difficult to teach especially because it is engaged on what is “IN” or what many people want to patronize. Or in other words using Pop Culture in education means teaching something which varies from time to time or from a specific season. None the less, Pop Culture is still significant! It does have a significant role in a person’s life.

It is said that pop culture is produced for the consumption of the masses. It is what they call mainstream, the easiest thing to have access to, what is “IN” and etc. (Campbell) Some good example are the songs, foods, clothing, expressions, technologies and etc. Which in return gives an impact whether it is a positive or negative one for the consumers especially base on what they are able to hear, taste, wear, say and etc. Can you picture yourself without the adaptation of the different influences that enters your own culture? (Hansen, 2013) According to Jim Taylor Ph.D. (2009) what if a genuine culture is substituted with a synth culture? What if your culture specifically is being influenced by other culture which you subsequently know what the effect may be? It is said that the one of the reasons why we get