trying to be cool but failing to understand the cultural contex
oh hi my name is wannabe cool guy from japan, can I be cool~~~~~~
I was at the ballard art walk by my self, and I felt kind of out of place.
I like ballard, it's really fancy, and artsy, but some how I can't help to feel that I do not fit in with that culture of theirs. They have shops designed specifically for the people over there who are really concerned with looking hip, and yes it is a hipster town, or what I would say a conservative liberal town. It seems like the culture has that hippie thing still wrapped around their head. I think the first setlers to the seattle area lived around there because it's close to the bay. Ballard has a very mature vibe, and alot of old towns get renovated to suit the arts.
I don't have anything against them, it's just I felt I am on a different vibe now a days and I understood more of that type of hipster culture, but right now I am comfortable, maybe too comfortable of my bubble and am ready to explore. I spent most of my life in Japan, and in Asian cultures, so there is no doubt that I understand more of the cultural context of where I feel familiar with and don't understand anything other than that. I thought I was multi-cultureed, but maybe I am shallow. Why do I have to feel that I have to understand "hipster" culture? It's because I still believe in modernism, like a sense of one way progress, like there is only one way that this art train is moving, and they are at the fore front. I think that kind of way of thinking died out as a result of post modernism, but I feel it's coming back again. It's all gravy though, I can just look at it as a separate culture that I don't have to build upon, and take what I can understand from it, and participate in this blurry art scene of my surroundings.
Traveling is fun, that's the conclusion, even if it's just to the other side of town, there is alot to learn about your self and the "otherness". The bottom line is that I should get out more often, to different places.
I was at the ballard art walk by my self, and I felt kind of out of place.
I like ballard, it's really fancy, and artsy, but some how I can't help to feel that I do not fit in with that culture of theirs. They have shops designed specifically for the people over there who are really concerned with looking hip, and yes it is a hipster town, or what I would say a conservative liberal town. It seems like the culture has that hippie thing still wrapped around their head. I think the first setlers to the seattle area lived around there because it's close to the bay. Ballard has a very mature vibe, and alot of old towns get renovated to suit the arts.
I don't have anything against them, it's just I felt I am on a different vibe now a days and I understood more of that type of hipster culture, but right now I am comfortable, maybe too comfortable of my bubble and am ready to explore. I spent most of my life in Japan, and in Asian cultures, so there is no doubt that I understand more of the cultural context of where I feel familiar with and don't understand anything other than that. I thought I was multi-cultureed, but maybe I am shallow. Why do I have to feel that I have to understand "hipster" culture? It's because I still believe in modernism, like a sense of one way progress, like there is only one way that this art train is moving, and they are at the fore front. I think that kind of way of thinking died out as a result of post modernism, but I feel it's coming back again. It's all gravy though, I can just look at it as a separate culture that I don't have to build upon, and take what I can understand from it, and participate in this blurry art scene of my surroundings.
Traveling is fun, that's the conclusion, even if it's just to the other side of town, there is alot to learn about your self and the "otherness". The bottom line is that I should get out more often, to different places.