The Melting Pot of Culture

What is authentic about YOUR teen subcluture? Does your generation have anything that it can call it's own? If there is nothing authentic about your culture, discuss how you feel about that. Does this even matter to you?

Culture in itself is a combination of so many subcultures that it could be considered a “melting pot” that has its own product overall. Our generation does have views, but because of the melting pot of culture, we too, have a wide range of views of what we would consider as a subculture. For me, technology is my subculture, but for someone else, it could be something entirely different.

In a different prospective, our generation does have a subculture- a mix of culture itself. I feel that we have enough culture even if the whole country has become consumers at heart. Each of us has something that we can consider as a subculture in their own eyes and therefore, they have something to call their own, even if some others do not approve. If we constantly had something authentic, in the end, we would have so many subcultures that there wouldn’t be a point anymore. This way, where each of us has our own, none of it can be taken away to be used against us. There is just too many teenagers that the corporations cannot keep track of all of the different varieties in styles.

"They may hear, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll listen"

"It's a shame that the people who are listening to you the most are only interested in you because they want you and your peers to buy their product."

The within this statement lies the truth, however, only to a certain extent. "They may hear, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll listen." This is one of my favorite quotes, and I believe that this holds a little more truth for what large companies are doing to coax people to purchase merchandise. They hear, and yet they add their own touches to the product, meaning that it has transformed from the popular item that gave birth to it. To the main statement above, I don't believe it, but that's my opinion alone.

Companies are not the only ones interested in listening, even if their main goal is for product placement. Friends and family listen as well, and they meet needs more promptly and more efficiently than any company could. However, now that we have entered a world where credit cards are used at an all time high, companies have full advantage to see into our lives and witness what makes us tick. But they are not the only ones that listen.