Essay On Pop Culture

POP CULTURE

What is Popular Culture (Pop Culture)?

As decades go on, pop culture gets different meanings to each of them. It could mean baggy jeans, tie-dye shirts, throwing up the peace sign, punk or pop music, hard-core rap, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Keeping Up With Kardashians and much more. These are just examples of what a pop culture is, it is basically a trend amongst people in a particular period of time regarding different popular culture topics that change between times over years. So many trends which have been considered as pop culture have come and gone over the years, we have had Marilyn Monroe days, then Audrey Hepburn and now we are in the Kim Kardashian era. Same way we passed from James Dean to David Bowie and now Bradley Cooper. Some of these pop cultures that forever stay in style, just like a George Clooney and a Chanel suit, and some, we simply do not even want to remember anymore.

Back in the 70’s mini skirts, flared jean trousers, bell bottoms and platform shoes were sharply recognized as a pop culture. And of course because everyone water to be hip and cool they wore such in different styles to fit in. Everyone wanted to look different, in his or her own way, different from their parents, but funny enough they kind of all ended up looking the same.

Pop culture is the entirety of ideas, attitudes, perspective and other phenomena that are within a given the mainstream of a given culture, especially the Western culture of the early mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. It is heavily influenced by the mass media as it is a part of our everyday lives in the society.

In so many cases pop culture is viewed as something that has small ...

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The Buddha bar has branches in Paris, Dubai, Prague, Mexico City, New York City, Budapest, London, Beirut, and Manila.

CONTROVERSY WITH BUDDHISTS

Going back to the Buddha Bar arousing controversies because of its theme, the Buddhists generally happy with the whole idea of cheapening their precious religion to make money in the name of art.