All of a Sudden ...

  All of a sudden, i found my self thinking sociologically when i was in school walking down the hallways.  In our school there is a lot of PDA.  And i mean  A LOT of it !  Yea it is okay to hold hands and give each other huggs and even a peck its fine.  But once you sit there and make out and have a tongue war, umm that's a little too much.  Do that on your own time, not in school. 
  In class the other day we were talking about how in the US our culture is very different from other country's culture.  What we think is okay other country's might not.  For example in one country if you do the O.K sign that sign in their country means F-you.  Also if we do the Peace sign in another country that means the same.  Our culture and what we do is very different from others. 
  So in our country giving a kiss on the cheek seems okay, right ?  Well maybe in our country it is but in India, it is not allowed ! If you do such a thing you can get fined ! and you can go to jail.  Scary isn't it.  Richard Gere was accused of coming a crime you could say, for kissing Kirna Mohra.  And just kissing her on the cheeks.  The country didn't like that and they fined him $12 and they issued a warrant for Gere's arrest.
  This goes to show you that our cultures and how we Americans see things differently from others.  To us a kiss on the cheek can even be because your being polite, greeting someone.  I mean High Schoolers practically eat each other in the hallways, and in India that is unacceptable.

Symbols

I chose this picture of a 3-D television because America depends too much on technology.  They all expect for technology to make their lives easier.

     

 

This picture of an advertise of Dolce & Gabbana shows that advertising is too sexy now.  The company of Dolce & Gabbana are saying "Sex sells!"  So they try to pose their models in a sexy way and try to make the picture look hot so they can make you think that you could look like that.

 This picture say that us Americans do not have to say word by word the way we are feeling.  We can just show an expression and people will know how were feeling.

McDonald's means that people can go to their fast food restaurant through the Drive Thru at any moment they feel like eating a Big Mac.  It shows that people sometimes are too busy with work, school, sports, anything to stop by at their house and make something to eat. 

All of a Sudden ...

  All of a sudden i found my self thinking sociologically when i was watching Jersey Shore on tv.  In Sociology we were talking about Culture and Language.  And we had a discussion about how us Americans made the English language shorter and we over use some words too much.  For example "like" "ummm" "uuhh" and "so".  Of course there is more but this words are the ones that we hear the most. 
  So as i was watching Jersey Shore, i decided to sit down and count how many times they said "like" "umm" "uhh" and "so".  Well they said "like" about 50 times.  They said "umm" about 5 times, "uhh" about 5 and "so" about 5 also.  I might of missed some but i mean that is a lot of likes umms and uhhs if you ask me. 
  Our language is getting worse by the minute.  But i guess there is nothing we can do for now. 
  Just listen to the people go on saying "like" about 20 times in one sentence. :D

Bemused in America

  The article that i examined is called Watching Joggers.  The journalist that wrote this is from Munich, Germany.  His name is Stefan Schirmer.  So while he was out here in Chicago,  he noticed that people would be running for no reason.  He thought it was strange because they werent going any where, they were not chaising after anything, they would just run.
  He probably thought this was weird because at his country he says that if people are going to sweat from getting a workout why do it alone?  They would rather have fun doing it with other people.  For example playing soccer.  He says that its better to run after a soccer ball then running to nowhere and back.

All of A Sudden . . .

  All of a sudden, i found myself thinking sociologically when i was at the mall with one of my girls and her friend, this weekend.  My friend and i were at Vanity and we were just looking for clothes, you know doing what girls do at the mall lol.  So when we were at Vanity, three girls walked in there.  They weren't ugly or fat or anything.  They looked normal i mean they looked like innocent people.  People that would never do anything wrong.  So we were by the jewelry section and the three girls went by there, and so were these two other girls.  So we were just looking and all of a sudden one of the girls that was in the group of three broke the seal from the necklace off and put in in her purse.  We all saw it and we didn't say anything.  They also took other things.  But before they left the store the two other people that saw went and told the girls that worked at the store.  I don't know what happened to them because i left before i could see what happened.
  This situation reminded  me of a project we had to do in class.  On what would people do if they say someone stealing things from someone else that you didn't know.  And i guess there is some people that would stop others from stealing :D