What's your bag?
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Another way to ask this question would be, 'What's your thing?'. Your 'Bag' is a combination of your style, interests, musical taste, fashion and lifestyle choices. In this song James Brown is singing about a certain kind of youth culture in the 1960s.
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In the youth culture of the 1960s there was an explosion of new styles and new dance moves can you name the ones mentioned by James Brown and Ray Charles?
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It is easy to think about culture and countries as the same thing but this is not the reality of how the world works. Some countries like Japan have very homogeneous national cultures whereas others such as the Brazil, Russia or the U.S. are a 'melting pot' of lots of different peoples and cultures.
National cultures are particularly influential but so can particular subcultures that people choose to follow. For example, the cultures of Rock music or Hip Hop music can be more important for some people. Many musical genres have evolved their own fashions, ways of speaking the language and even value systems, rituals, heroes and symbols. The Hip Hop culture began in the U.S. but has reached people all around the world. Hip Hop in Japan may be different to Hip Hop in Germany because it is influenced by the national culture, however, Hip Hop culture has the same basic qualities wherever you find it. |
Popular western subcultures during the last 100 years.
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Other kinds of culture
Wherever people come together and form specialized groups subcultures evolve. They differentiate from other groups through dress, language use, value systems, etc. · Corporate culture (the culture of Microsoft, Sony or Google) · Professional culture (the culture of lawyers or doctors) · Military culture (Army, Navy, Air-force) · Generational (youth culture, Gen X (born late 1960s-1980), baby boomers (1940s-1960s) · Religious culture (Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism) · Regional culture (Northern and Southern Italy, Eastern and Western Canada) · Class culture (working class, middle class, upper class, white collar/blue collar workers) |
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Common symptoms of culture shock can include any of the following:
o Homesickness
o Headaches or stomach aches
o Easily tired
o Loneliness or a sense of hopelessness
o Distrust of people
o Withdrawal from people and activities
o Lowered work performance
o Anger, or anxiety and suspicion
You may or may not experience any of the above – but if you do, it is perfectly normal!
o Homesickness
o Headaches or stomach aches
o Easily tired
o Loneliness or a sense of hopelessness
o Distrust of people
o Withdrawal from people and activities
o Lowered work performance
o Anger, or anxiety and suspicion
You may or may not experience any of the above – but if you do, it is perfectly normal!
What is culture shock?
The term 'culture shock' is simply a term to describe the emotions one gets when moving into an unfamiliar culture – inclusive of the shocks of being in a new environment, meeting new people, using a foreign language and being separated from family and friends.
There are many elements that can contribute to culture shock, such as;
The term 'culture shock' is simply a term to describe the emotions one gets when moving into an unfamiliar culture – inclusive of the shocks of being in a new environment, meeting new people, using a foreign language and being separated from family and friends.
There are many elements that can contribute to culture shock, such as;
- Food – strange ingredients and aromas, different styles of cooking.
- Language - constantly speaking in a different language can be exhausting. Additionally, you will come across a range of regional accents and dialects, which can make understanding the language even more difficult.
- Climate – eg, always cold, grey and wet or always hot and sunny
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