Urban Culture

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Urban Culture
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Introduction

• Definition
• Causes
• Characteristics
• Conclusion

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Definition

• Urban culture is the culture of cities. Cities
  all over the world, past and present, have
  behaviors and cultural elements that separate
  them from otherwise comparable rural areas.

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Causes

• Renaissance
• Industrial revolution
• Capitalism
• Technological development

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Characteristics

• Individualism
• Depthlessness
• Professionalism Materialism
• Postmodern View
• Technological development
• Slums
• Nuclear Families

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Characteristics

• Intermixing of cultures
• Cultural aping
• Short sightedness
• Recognition to Homosexuality

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Individualism

• Capitalism in urban culture
• Better life for better individuals
• Sacrificing Personal interests
• Profit oriented society leads to individualism

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DepthLessness

• Dystopic picture of the present.
• Loss of our connection to history.
• Fascination with the present.
• Historical transformation.
• A new depthlessness has surfaced.
• Rejection that one can ever fully move beyond the
  "false consciousness" to some deeper truth.
• Schizophrenia and drug addiction.

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Professionalism and Materialism

• Work for living or live for working
• Alienation from social life
• Increase in productivity

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Postmodernist View

• High and low culture
• Recognition to many cultures
• Celebrating hedonism
• Globalisation

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Technological Development

• Increase in communication
• Using online messengers
• Development of nuclear power
• Increase in medical facilities

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Slums

• Spread of industrial area
• Working class
• Poor people forced to move to slums

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Nuclear Families

• Need
• economic income
• difference between generations
• family size
• Problems
• Loss of traditional values social ties
• Lack of elderly guidance

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Intermixing of cultures

• Migration/Diaspora
• Cultural harmony
• Formation of popular cultures

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Cultural Aping

• East aping west
• Hegemony
• Complete cultural transformation
• West aping east
• Yoga
• Ayurveda
• Philosophy

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Shortsightedness

• Focusing on immediate interests
• Causes harm in long race

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Homosexuality

• Migration to cities
• Rise in gay/lesbian fiction
• Homosexuality in mythology
• Media Boom
• Gerbilling