Sabrina Brown Brown
ICW
Sep 16,2013
Culture
Culture to me is a category of hobbies and characteristics
that a group of people has in common. I identify myself as being linked
to the urban culture. The music I listen to, the grammar I use, the movies I
love, the places I go, are characterized into the urban culture. They way I was
raised also plays a role in the culture I identify with.
Music plays a huge role in the culture you identify with.
For example, I listen to a lot of rap music. Not just mainstream rap that you
hear on the radio though. In Chicago there are a lot of young underground
rappers. Being an underground rapper you do not go that far beyond where you
are popular. When I am at a party that is the music that is being played and
the mainstream radio hits. When I am in the car with my friends that is the
music we play. Not only Chicago music, a lot of underground rappers from
different places. When I listen to someone’s iPod we have the similar songs. I
think music is one of the most powerful and influential things in our society.
That is why it plays such a huge role in the urban culture.
I feel that movies are also a factor that plays into
culture. Movies like, Love and Basketball, Poetic Justice, Juice, and Blue Hill
Avenue to name a few. We like the same movies because we have the same
interest.
Where you live and your surroundings are characteristics of
your culture you identify with. Urban culture is usually more in the lower
income areas around the world. That does not mean that someone in a rich neighborhood
cannot be apart of the urban culture. Defining what culture you are apart of is
mostly about what interest you and what you can relate to.
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