My culture

Hi, I am Panayiota Pavla, and  I was born in Owensboro, Kentucky (USA). I  now  leave on the small island of Cyprus. I am 22 years old, and I have a bachelor's degree in teaching. I am currently studying for my Bachelor of Arts in Fashion design.  To become fashion designer is my dream, and now I have the opportunity to follow my dream in University of the west of England. I can write pages and pages about fashion, fashion designing and style. The tasks is to write about my culture. As I said I was born in the Us and from that day a go every year in the Us because of family. I love staying in the Us but i love Cyprus too.  There are absolutely different and if you ask me to chose i would say - I cant chose because in both countries I fill like home.  So I think I have multi culture, because staying in a huge town and opposite in a very small town there are many other things that you could do. In Us I love going climbing, road trips, having open parties to everyone, skying,e.t.c. But in a small town (Nicosia) there aren’t a lot of things you could to but I love going to a quietly cafe with no that much noise also out week routine is more loosely. The air is more fresh than Us, it doesn’t have that much exhaust.  Also in Cyprus you can go everywhere by your self and don’t get scared. So I couldn’t say witch Country I love. But Us is in my future dreams for MA. Also I love partying, making people laugh, be friendly with all people, helping people, music (English songs) Rihanna, that I’ve been to her consort last year in London,  last but not least I love shopping, sewing my own designs and making cakes:) My favorite foods are: hamburgers, fridays (oouhh i love fridays), souvla (cypriot food) and of course I love sweets :)

Critical Perspectives

Critical Perspectives:

Introduction

Broadly speaking, there are probably 3

different explanations of culture

1.“Culture is a special intellectual or

artistic endeavour/ product”

Mathew Arnolds: Culture and Anarchy, 1867

“High Culture VS Low Culture”

look at the photos bellow: What you see? The first photos are hight culture and the second photos on your right are right culture.  You see one modern and hight building and then you see KFC building:/. You see opera and then you see Miley Cyrus that i dont have words to describe what she’s doing. 

 

2.“Culture is a quality possessed by all

people”

Edward Taylor: Primitive Culture, 1870

See the photos below, you see Knowledge, religion, language, art, laws, customs (as culture)

—> there are Three levels of uniqueness in human mental programming (Hofstede 1994:6) 

1. Human rights
2. culture
3. personality

What is ‘Visual Culture’?

It combines —> cultural

          —>  historical

          —> philosophical

                   —>political

                   —>psychological

And other critical frameworks to make sense of contemporary cultural forms;

Writers are not disinterested, objective viewers – they and positioned.

—>We all have a position and that position is not neutral;

—>we are sophisticated readers of cultural “texts”;