Individual Medium Post 2

Culture is something that whether fostered or antagonized will be practiced one way or another. As humans, it is how we identify. Those songs we sang as kids, grandma's soup, the block party every easter, all things we often dismiss but make us who we are. Cultural products as referenced in the prompt are often unfiltered windows into the feelings of the people at that time.

Cultural products often fill out the picture that historians and politicians never fully encompass in their narratives. the cultural products such as art and music while maybe not an explosive scene but nonetheless there, just like the Okinawans singing folk songs on the battlefield even after all of their cultural reformation. Cultural products are often the only things an indentured person may have access to that remind them of home.

I believe that not only are they items of comfort but a driving force, these cultural products may also be political. There is political music, political visual art. I see cultural products as the door into the citizen on the ground rather than the high-class authors who analyze this Phenomenon from abroad.

Just as a straightforward example, reggae music. regarded as one of the world's most peaceful has roots in anti-oppression movements and the violent revolution of jamaica in the 1960s. Bob Marley's records are almost historical written records of the political injustice of the times.

In my life, I describe who I am by the music I listen to the language I speak as well as the vast amount of practices I may not even realize are cultural. For me to ripped from my home and dropped into a foreign land, my culture my only lifeline. Therefore there will be no more candor representation of a people than through their cultural products.