Ideas about masculinity
My presentation was ready in time! I found the article that helped me glue everything together the last moment, but I am finally satisfied. But I didn't get to present yesterday. Because most of the class was missing! (I will have to rant about strikes in Greece some other time) But I might enjoy some of your insights thanks to that!
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well, i think its better if u point out what is ur focus. the culture bout masculinity or the music. mixed of both will be good, ut still u should decide which one u want to point out the most
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1. As the comment above says, for Arabic worls you bring examples from books and for Japanese world you bring examples from music. It kinda gives the feeling of ununiformity (if it's a word) to the presentation. Perhaps you should give some sort of explanation why did you choose to bring examples from different media for the two cultures.
2. What also seemed "ununiform" to me is that for Arab culture you brought examples from the authors that are writing for potentially wide masses and have been (at least the one born in 1944) active for at least 40 years, while for Japanese culture you brought example from more modern artists, who appeal mostly (if I'm not mistaken and I might be) to teenagers.
3. Summing 1 and 2 I personally would prefer to have more examples from more various sources.
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I know that I could talk about some interesting movies, but I couldn't choose without seeing them... In Japan music and television are agents of great change and I want to show that... I could probably explain more in the conclusion about the agents of change... How does that sound? :D
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I would personally prefer to have this explanation at the beginning, because then I would know why did you choose to draw your info from the sources you mentioned. It doesn't have to be a big explanation, just a sentence or two. To explain what are the most influential factors in Arabic and Japanese cultures.
Basically I am not familiar with arab music and I have the impression that it will be just as traditional as their television...
The question is whether you speak of traditional music or the modern music. Because in Japan too, if I'm not mistaken, there is the modern music and there is the traditional music.
But hey, your prof will be the one to grade you, not me :D I also don't know what you are their expectations of you...
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And of course nothing spactacular is expected from me. Who is expecting anything spectacular from anyone those days? :X
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I've only got one negative comment. it seems to me that you don't need to mention anything concerning whether the west sees itself as culturally superior to Japan or vice versa, unless you clearly connect that to the issue of masculine superiority. otherwise you're sort of off the point, since it's not general views of cultural superiority you're talking about, but very specific.
just my opinion...
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:-P
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;-P
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