This view states that communication is the key to holding our world together. It also states that through this communication, “social groups create collective ideas of themselves, of one another, and of the world they inhabit”(29). This view seems to be the most difficult to completely understand only because I am sure what it means by “building worlds”. What this perspective means to me is that through our own cultures language, beliefs, attitudes, values and guidelines, our world is shaped differently than what another person see through their culture. It seems to me that this view states that societies views are what shape us. I do believe that our way of thinking in society today is shaped by everything around us from TV to magazines. We do begin to think the way everybody else is thinking. I understand that this becomes a problem when we are faced with someone from another culture. Our thinking is completely different, sometimes causing serious problems. Some things that we might talk about in our society could be entertainment and celebrities. Other cultures do not rely on what celebrities think or say because they do not value entertainment like we do. These concepts directly contribute to our happiness because we do rely so much on what society thinks and what other people think. We all try so hard to be like what we see in TV when it is just not realistically possible or even right. People’s confidence and wellbeing could be seriously affected by this way of thinking.
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I couldn't agree more. Media does have an effect on perspectives. Let's take the new and young generation these days. Everyone of them has a cell phone or an ipod. The way they dress these days, it never existed when I was their age. I have to admit that some of the new styles are pretty cool but I never got on the whole baggy pants thing. That suprisingly is still constant since I was a kid. And believe me, I tried it. Also, what's important to them is different. The topics they talk about with the utmost priority are different. They talk about boyfriend, girlfriend stuff, dating and partying. And these kids are only about 15 or 16.
And they expect everything from Mommy and Daddy and they get it. Why?
I mean, I didn't start partying until I was 18, but I still was rolling with a different crowd who just liked to hang around and toss back a few cold ones. Nothing to drastic. Plus, everything I wanted, I rarely got, unless it was christmas or my birthday, because over time, it just stopped being important to me and I focused on other stuff. And then I started working and bought my own stuff and learned how to save money.
It is very interesting to wonder how the new generation of teenagers are fixated on these sort of things when they really still have no experience or business involving themselves in the things they do. Its funny to think that at one point in our lives, we were once like that.
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