Writting Assignment: Popular Culture
Popular culture is interaction among people which mostly affected by mass media that could influence to their everyday lives and attitudes. However, there are various ways across different contexts to define popular culture. This paper will explain both points of views.
In one point of view, it is clear that popular culture shows good new trends which stimulate new behaviour in social activities. Moreover, it bears a variety of information to expand people's perspectives. For example, Indonesia Stock Exchange has successfully released a way to increase lower-middle class interest by splitting share companies cost till it reaches their economic capabilities to invest in stock area. It is a new behaviour that exist for them besides investing in gold, property and others.
In the other point of view, as people know, each new ones also has negative impact esspessially if it not prepares to counter behind it. Moreover, popular culture is foreign culture that comes and tries to blend in Indonesia, and at some point people not aware that folk culture slowly vanish by the times. As lower-middle class applied, they would prefer stock as their investation instrument because stock is far better than gold or property. In other similar case, people lately prefer watching youtube and being a video bloger than watching television and being an actor/actress.
To conclude, popular culture has both advantage and disadvantage effects in people's life. The writer agrees that popular culture has more beneficial aspect espessially in rapid stream of information era. In order to prevent negative impacts of popular culture, they should make regulation to anticipate it.
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Kediri, 24th may 2019 || Faisal Nizar












