For two days, keep a record of your mass media- tv, internet, including what you watched, read, or communicated. During these two days I watched tv some of the shows were Jersey Shore, Teen mom, storage wars, and soap operas. While watching these shows I realized that the people that are in these shows are from different cultures from all over the world. During Jersey Shore i realized that their little subculture is very different then any subculture that I have been apart of. These people only care about partying and drinking. Their values and norms are very different.
I also watched some episodes of teen mom and came to realize that depending on your culture your values and norms change drastically. I come from a family that teen pregnancy is not allowed and if it does happen, people will think that the teen is irresponsible and she will be an embaressment to the culture were apart of. These girls from teen mom come from a culture that there values and norms are very different. Some of these girls families were perfectly fine with them having a baby at such a young age. This comes to show that culture means alot on how people are raised and how drastically values change.
Facebook was also a big part of my media usage. Communicating with old friends and meeting new people also proved that peoples values are very different. The media effects people from all cultures and we tend to pick up different values as we go along. Learning things from other cultures we begin to start our own little subcultres.
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