When I was thinking of a song,
movie, symbol, or just anything that represents our culture I went straight to
my computer for ideas. Of course I was checking facebook and twitter the whole
time. That’s when it hit me that the media has a very strong influence on
culture. This is why I uploaded a picture of Hollywood. I am representing this
as not only a sight seer but as the entire entertainment industry. It hasn’t always
been around but I feel as though today it shapes our culture, singers and song
writers, actors and actresses, movies and songs which are constantly changing
just as American culture is. While looking back on the Hollywood industry beginning,
it started off being very bias. Whites dominated the Hollywood social media
attention, creating prejudices against others. Just as how culture has changed
by becoming more diverse so has the industry. Now a days all kinds of people
are presented in Hollywood creating a melting pot so to speak in the entertainment
business just as America is described as the melting pot of the world. Hollywood represents culture from way back when
such as the TV series The Little House in the Prairie to predicting culture in
the future such as the movie Star Wars. Hollywood can be an accurate representation
with our generation growing up and learning social norms from it. It captures
the moment by being able to portray America and everyone in it through showing
the gradual change within different groups.
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