dodd.kyle102
Interconnected isolation.
For "Hitting the Streets" I wanted to depict the youth of Italy, offering a compare and contrast between what we Americans understand everyday life in public to be back home. I chose to focus on the youth because they are a demographic which we can relate to better.
I think that we all make this comparison to life back home internally with every person we see, every place we go, and every experience we have, as it is foreign, different, and new to us. Like in learning another language, we interpret foreign words in terms of our first language, that base language which structures our entire perception of the world. To be given the chance to exist in a different culture for a time we are given the opportunity to broaden our understanding of the world by comparing this new place to the one which we know so well.
Are we so different from the Italian people? Are our cultures so dissimilar?
Interconnected isolation.
For "Hitting the Streets" I wanted to depict the youth of Italy, offering a compare and contrast between what we Americans understand everyday life in public to be back home. I chose to focus on the youth because they are a demographic which we can relate to better.
I think that we all make this comparison to life back home internally with every person we see, every place we go, and every experience we have, as it is foreign, different, and new to us. Like in learning another language, we interpret foreign words in terms of our first language, that base language which structures our entire perception of the world. To be given the chance to exist in a different culture for a time we are given the opportunity to broaden our understanding of the world by comparing this new place to the one which we know so well.
Are we so different from the Italian people? Are our cultures so dissimilar?