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Week 1: Two Cultures

These article are all about culture and how they shape our thoughts. 

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(The combining of cultures)
Within "Toward a Third Culture: Being In Between," Vesna explains the views of two cultures. Vesna goes into detail of how thinking in different ways becomes our culture. Later Vesna explains how we are able to slowly emerge into a new culture by thinking in different or unlikely ways. For example, we are already divided into different cultures when we think. Given that our society has been sculpted into believing that there are two different ways, science and history.

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North vs. South Campus 
This sort if division is see all over the word, yet, it is also closer to us then we believe. With UCLA we accept this difference in culture. When meeting someone new, we often ask, "Are you North or South Campus?" This is a prime example of the division. We have to choose what culture we would like to be apart of. Knowing a person that is able to obtain a major that is both can be very rare to come across.


The article by C.P. Snow acknowledges that hardship that scientist of the 1900's had to go through, which was choosing this culture. Back then, society only allowed one person one sort of culture. In this specific case. Scientists were creativity people though they were not able to show their creativity in other ways accept for scientist. If a scientist were to enjoy any sort of art form, they could be view as less as an intellectual. This was the difference between the two cultures of being traditional and being anti-scientific. 

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art and technology in today's world 
The article that I found most interesting was the article "John Brockman: Matchmaking with science and art." I just really loved the combination of the two and the story of how the science of media has also become an art form. I also think that it was a great article to read given that our society revolves around technology. I personally have never viewed media and a certain art form so I really enjoyed reading this article from a different perspective. 

Veronica Thompson 

Work Cited 

Vesna, Victoria. “Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between.” Leonardo 34.2 (2001): 121-25. Web.Kelly, Kevin. "The Third Culture" ScienceVol. 279 no. 5353 pp. 992-993. Web.Snow, C. P. “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” Reading. 1959. New York: Cambridge UP, 1961. Print.Duncan. Graham-Rowe. "John Brockman: Matchmaking with science and art."Latest Magazine, Web. 03 February 11.
Quora. "Why Art And Science Are More Closely Related Than You Think." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 16 Mar. 2016. Web. 07 Apr. 2019.

Comments

  1. PiperMonkApril 9, 2019 at 10:29 AM

    I feel like I am also guilty of asking people whether they are North or South campus. It is so easy to perpetuate these ideas of separation without realizing what you are doing.

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