The way our generation has progressed determines how
technology has built this social norm where we are constantly around it no
matter what the circumstance. Almost everything in this world revolves around
our technological innovations. As I sit and ponder upon this question on my
computer, I realize how tech driven we are. Most of what we do needs
technology. Waking up in the morning with an alarm, watching TV, warming up our
food in the microwave, driving to work/listening to music in the car, doing work
on a computer, etc. We get the point. However, I wouldn’t take it as a bad
thing. It’s human evolution whether we like it or not. Why question the reason
for not being like before where our world wasn’t centralized around technology.
It’s better to move on and grow with this technological aspect. Instead of
making it an awful societal norm, we should just move along with it rather than
trying to repel away.
The media plays such a large role in regards to the way
people receive their information for certain aspects. For an example, I will
use the fraternity aspect of how the media portrays every single one of them.
The media only highlights the bad parts about fraternities. They never show the
good in fraternities and what they actually do for the community. This year, in
my fraternity, we had our own philanthropy where we obtained thousands of
canned foods and delivered them to the Good Shepherd Center in LA.
Additionally, brothers go to Thousand Oaks each week to help individuals learn
how to speak English. We also organized an event where we fed the homeless
twice last week for a couple of hours. Other fraternities here on campus do
their own set of volunteering also, so I’m not sure why people always choose to
emphasize the “bad” stuff. Volunteering and doing good deeds for humanity is
the stuff that goes unnoticed, yet say a fraternity throws a party, then that’s
where the social media capitalizes on them. Not when they are doing good deeds
for the community.
The 5 issues that we are faced with when it comes to
activism are intercultural exchanges, intercultural communication,
culture-specific rhetorics, translation issues, and Creating Translation
rhetorics. It will always be a challenge to communicate cross culturally with
other human beings, yet it’s the way we progress technologically speaking where
we will overcome that burden and simply break down that blockade. It will be
extremely beneficial when the communication aspect of cultures becomes
efficient because that’s when the other problems will resolve themselves.
