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My Culture is Not a Costume Nor Joke!

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Culture plays a strong part in people's lives. It influences their views, their values, their humor, their hopes, their loyalties, their worries, and their fears. Culture defines who we are and what kind of person we are, no one can take away the person you really are. Every culture has its own variety of clothing that defines their culture and their beliefs. (My Culture is NOT a Costume) A video named "My Culture is NOT a Costume" was released from the youtube channel 'Teen Vogue'. The channel asked six women about Halloween costumes that co-opt their culture. After speaking about their culture, explaining who they are and what their clothing represents. Halloween Costumes that 'corresponds' with their culture were then brought out for them to conduct what they think about, overall they all felt that the costumes were offensive and stereotypical towards their Culture, as it imitates their Culture based on their beliefs on them. Personall...

Young People Don't Vote!

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Knock the Vote Poster Recently a PSA has been posted and has gone viral across popular media platform. And has received much attention from newscasts making it a popular topic. The PSA was created to encourage young people to hopefully vote during the 2018 Midterm. After viewing this interesting PSA. I was confused about the message the PSA was trying to put out there but from watching it a few more times, I was able to receive the message they are sending to the youth. Elderly white people are taunting  young Americans and encouraging them to hopefully vote during the election. The PSA had a strange but quite a creative way of spreading their message around, by getting elderly white actors to say that rich, Donald Trump supporters will be out during the election in numbers, the elderly Trump supporters speak about why they voted Republican and the benefits they gain from it. The elderly trump supporters talk about the changes Trump will be making and how it suppo...