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Cultural Change Quotes
Cultural ChangeGenerationsMusicPower of ArtUnity The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
Cultural ChangeDigital AgeEphemeralityMedia InfluenceMusic Industry With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
AssimilationCultural ChangeCultural IdentityLanguage and Communication What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.
Communication EthicsCultural ChangeDialogueLanguage and SocietySocial Justice I'm actually all for political correctness. If you want to work to change the usage of a word that's discriminatory then fine, I'm behind you. But that's a conversation that needs to be had in the culture. You can't just decide that commonly used parts of a language are evil and that the people who didn't get the memo must be bad people.
Cultural ChangeInnovationMusic EvolutionPopularityRevolution Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.
AestheticsAuthenticityCultural ChangeLiteraturePerception of Quality I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.
Cultural ChangeGenre FluidityMusic EvolutionPersonal PerspectiveSubjectivity in Art All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
Cultural ChangeHistoryInnovationMusic EvolutionPersonal Growth Trap is new. It didn't start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn't exist - not even in the U.S. I've evolved with the music.
Cultural ChangeEntertainmentMedia ConsumptionTechnology How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.