High Culture

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In a capitalist society, money is power and the culture classes are based on financial earnings. High culture, or capital “C” culture “forces on what we usually think of as high-end creative production” (O’Brien, Szeman 4). When asked in tutorial what is the stereotype of ‘high culture’ vs. ‘low culture,’ it was established that the mind automatically goes to such activities as: going to the opera or a theatre production, holding memberships and habitually attending country clubs and the social aspects that are included, watching equestrian races, drinking wine, and watching National Geographic. On the other hand, the vision of low culture is: naïve, ‘redneck,’ close minded, working class (blue collar) citizens who find leisure in such things as watching “Family Guy,” attending pubs and bars, drinking, watching soap operas, and falling under the spell of reality television. Throughout the ages there has been a partition between the working class and the higher classes. Divisions caused by the privileged causing a blockade between lower classes in order to continue the elite groups ...

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