Post #5

Over the past couple of weeks our class began studying the impact American Culture has on us Americans. I believe American's now a days are afraid to chase love because to them getting a promotion and working all your life is better then feeling "loved."Although many people can disagree with that it's very clear that many Americans don't like to think about how things impact us but instead move on with life as if nothing happened. The traditional culture in America is to forget our loved ones and move on with life but, in my culture we like to mourn the deaths of our soldiers and even keep that person in our head because it wasn't morally right to block out that person from your mind. Americans value many things in life but, none of them stop and think about the overall picture and how it impacts us majorly. For example in the TED talk by Chris Jordan, he brings up epidemics in America and explains how we have lost our national expression of America and how each year our country begins to negatively change. I agree with Chris because it almost seems like our country forgot about the pride it took by our Soldiers to help bring this place to peace. If people began wanting "change" then maybe we would see some change in America behavior wise. If we saw a change in behavior then we might begin to get a sense of "ourselves" and our national pride. In the movie Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie kept bringing up "if you learn to accept yourself and find use then you will live a happy life." What he means is that America is too busy working all their life for nothing and there too ignorant to accept the fact that their death is going to come therefore they should learn to accept that. In our culture we value Time because it's always good to be on time to Work, School, or even an event that has meaning to our life. In the movie, Morrie believes that you shouldn't worry about the time but rather make use in your life knowing your time is coming very soon. He was constantly giving advice in life which to me sounded very valuable and true.