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发表于 2016-8-24 14:32:17 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyzethe trends of its youth.
The statement contends that studying the trends of young people is themost effective way to understand contemporary culture. This is a ratherambitious assertion that needs check for its better application. Contemporaryculture itself is a broad concept, which comprises all aspects of personal lifeand social phenomenon, ranging from food, music to collective activities suchas open plaza dancing. The validation of this statement also succumbs todifferent conditions, with demography in particular. If a society is consistedmainly of young people, like the United States in 1960s, young people’s tastemay faithfully reflect that of the entire community. If otherwise, as in Japanand Shanghai, where elder people make up for 25% of the population, one musttake their lifestyle into consideration while judging the contemporary cultureof the society.  
It is rather justifiable to say that in most communities, thinking of theyoung minds does effectively mirror the contemporary culture. Young people arethe major consumers of high-tech gadgets and the vanguards of trying out newthings. When a newly-opened hotpot restaurant wanted to raise its brandawareness in my town, it disseminated try-out coupons only to young people. Theassumption is apparent: if young people like, people like us. Similar publicitycampaigns, for a plethora of products, ranging from cosmetics to canned drinks,inevitably pinpoint young people as their potential customers. Sinceentrepreneurs are prudent in spending their fund on preliminary sifting ofclients, the fact that they place higher priority on the young generationattests to the young people’s indicative function of a society’s contemporaryculture.
However, the same theory may not hold true in societies where the elderscompose a larger proportion of the population. Taking a post-dinner stroll onany major street in Shanghai, you will soon be attracted to open parks andplazas, where middle-aged people - mostly women - dance along with clamoroussongs played out from portable stereos. Plainly dubbed “guangchang wu” or plazadancing, it has become virulently popular among retired (or working) “aunties”,a coinage affectionately referring to middle-aged women in local dialect. Infact, this salubrious recreation has become so prevalent that the national bureauof sports has applied for its enlisting as a national event, with well-organizedcontests and competitions every year. Chances are narrow that young peoplewould be willing to participate in the swinging and commingling. If anything,they would only shy away from them without second thought. Yet one can hardlyexclude the dance from the city’s contemporary culture icons. Obvious, whilestudying contemporary cultures in these societies, one cannot quickly neglectthe elder generations and the middle-age generation.
Another compelling example is the mooncake. Moon-cake, a traditional foodfor Mid-Autumn festivals in China, is a relic of the last century. It is rare chanceto find someone under twenty who would confess his or her fondness of the traditionalmoon cake, with its insipid dark skin and slimy stuffing made of cloying beans orsalty seasoned yolk. Valetudinarian children prefer a salad bowl. Yet theundeniable market size for traditional mooncakes every midautumn festivalunveils the fact, however surprising, that people - not necessarily poepel ofthe younger generation, but people as a whole - love the flavor of this ancientdim sum. Again, disregarding people of other age groups impairs the objective understandingof contemporary culture of a society.

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