Americans are crazy about multimedia devices. To possess a smartphone is such common among students, that, according to someone's report, people not only wonder about a cell phone with simple functions, but literally push one to buy a multifunctional phone to increase reputation. Total terror of presence with facebooking on smartphones probably is not more prevalent that anywhere else in the western world nowadays. But a smartphone could particularly function as a mean of distinction in a social space like a campus, which, though or maybe because basically structured by uniformity and equality, procudes principals of symbol stratifcation.
However, more apparanently is the general presence of both cars and inside the houses TVs, which indicates peoples affinity with technical innovations, deeply rooted in American culture. The TV is the center of private life standing in the middle of the living room. Furthermore, being literally always powered the TV primarily shape mood and conversation in private life. The suggestion to listen to music instead of watching TV would probably confuse a lot of Americans. Feeling committed to intercultural exchange and in my own interest, it would be great to influence my home environment to bring in the idea of the living room as a place to hang out listening to nice, atmospheric music. I enjoyed myself so much two nights ago, when I watched a movie with a friend, laying afterwards alone on the couch with a glass of Jameson and listening to some music. I would love to repeat and to share with others.
Facing the football game at TV, I realize that this night was a divine, lucid moment, that probably will not come again soon. Sunday is football day! However, in addition to Jazz the TV soap was invented in America, and American TV culture produces many great TV series like The Wire and House M.D. that are loved all over the world. Furthemore, importance of the medium TV yield a great plenty and variety of TV channels. My recent discovery is the Turner Classical Movie (TCM) channel, which screened Orson Wells Citizen Kane tonight. I found this channel incidently a morning this week, when it sweetened my breakfast with Fred Astaire and the wonderful Rita Hayworth in "You'll never get rich". Thus, exploration of American TV program is not only an option, but a promising task for the future...
However, more apparanently is the general presence of both cars and inside the houses TVs, which indicates peoples affinity with technical innovations, deeply rooted in American culture. The TV is the center of private life standing in the middle of the living room. Furthermore, being literally always powered the TV primarily shape mood and conversation in private life. The suggestion to listen to music instead of watching TV would probably confuse a lot of Americans. Feeling committed to intercultural exchange and in my own interest, it would be great to influence my home environment to bring in the idea of the living room as a place to hang out listening to nice, atmospheric music. I enjoyed myself so much two nights ago, when I watched a movie with a friend, laying afterwards alone on the couch with a glass of Jameson and listening to some music. I would love to repeat and to share with others.
Facing the football game at TV, I realize that this night was a divine, lucid moment, that probably will not come again soon. Sunday is football day! However, in addition to Jazz the TV soap was invented in America, and American TV culture produces many great TV series like The Wire and House M.D. that are loved all over the world. Furthemore, importance of the medium TV yield a great plenty and variety of TV channels. My recent discovery is the Turner Classical Movie (TCM) channel, which screened Orson Wells Citizen Kane tonight. I found this channel incidently a morning this week, when it sweetened my breakfast with Fred Astaire and the wonderful Rita Hayworth in "You'll never get rich". Thus, exploration of American TV program is not only an option, but a promising task for the future...
No comments:
Post a Comment