My response to the reading is a commentary on the culture we are raised on and how that can affect the repetitions and difference in our lives and they way we go about exhibiting those behaviors. I probably watch more Korean shows than America shows but I live in America so I have an International perspective on the Korean shows that I do watch.I notice a lot of societal behaviors that characters will display in the shows that wouldn’t phase someone who was born into the culture.In the world there are many of the same incidents will repeat themselves across multiple cultures but due to our differences and the environment we were raised in people will respond to the same situations differently in best response to their own background. Repetition is the same events that occur worldwide and the generality is the slight differences in response mechanism each person uses in the situation.The article explains “...generality expresses a point of view here one term can be exchanged or subsisted for another”(page 1). A similar situation can take place on a globally spectrum but the way a person reacts to the situation is a sign of the environment they have been exposed to.
The importance of Age and position in the Korean culture is very prominent and influential in the character's development and interaction with other characters.I took a scene from a Korean Drama titled Jealousy Incarnate where the main lead is a low level weather girl in a big broadcasting company. The importance of position plays a huge role in her behavior because she is the least powerful of the group and is often looked down for in her position. The differences between this and the environment I have been brought up is that the constant reminder of age and position is not an existing factor in my environment. in Korean they have separate words to define someone's age in reference to your own that becomes part of everyday speech. A person who is older than you even by a year would be called Noona( if a girl) an Oppa (if a boy),giving them an edge of power before the conversation even develops. The culture requires that you be aware of someone position and age when addressing them in conversation which can make ranking feel very important all the time. Where in America there is no need to reference some position and age if causal conversation, that can be left to a work. Having a constant societal urge to figure out rankings and your own position in relation to others can you feel less powerful before the conversation even starts.
The scene that I switched from Korean to an American perspective relates to the ID tags workers use to identify an “important” full time worker who wears blue and who is “inessential” part-timer who wears red. The charters receiving so many signals of her importance at the company through the way they rank her in conversation to the color of her id tag that her surrendering to their low position feels like a correct response since she's constantly aware of her low position. In my American version I took away the constant reminder of position and made charter notice the color difference less. I did this in order to show that in the society I have been exposed to the reminder of position of is not as common therefore she would feel like she has a better chance of moving up in the company based primarily on her skills and education. I also gave her brother a more important role as a person who is also unexposed to the position difference in the culture and believe his sister can achieve and move up in the company and become an announcer. This contrast his initial response in the Korean drama where he considers his sisters ranking and tells her to be wary of trying again, afraid that she might upset the an taboo subject at work.
From the reading I can further understand the contrast between generality and reception in relation to cultural habits and how that affects a person. Placed with an equal situation people will respond to that events in multiple ways in response to their environment and what the place higher in importance.I think it's important to understand a cultural difference in order to understand the decisions people make around the world.
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