Something new that has entered my life is foreign music. I've become more interested in music from other countries. I find it amazing how American rap and hip-hop has influenced others and how they change the culture to make it their own. For example in South Korea, they have a variety of music genres that are inspired from American music but it's different in their own way. They have K-soul, K-RnB, K-trap, and the most commonly known is K-pop. But the downside is because they are foreign and are from a conserved country they often do very racist renditions mostly pertaining to black people. It kind of puts you off a little bit when you find out an artist you like thinks that all your people are ugly and ghetto because of their skin tone from the multiple stereotypes painted by bad media and likes to paint their skin black to mock you. And this is not only a downside to K-music but to also every other foreign music.
Are these myths bias or are they true? In Irvin's essay, "What Is “Academic” Writing?" he outlined and debunked 7 myths that most high school and college students were made to believe as they evolved as writers. The Myths Are: Myth #1: The “Paint by Numbers” myth Myth #2: Writers only start writing when they have everything figured out Myth #3: Perfect first drafts Myth #4: Some got it; I don’t—the genius fallacy Myth #5: Good grammar is good writing Myth #6: The Five Paragraph Essay Myth #7: Never use “I” Most of these myth's I have personally never heard of but I just can't agree with myth #1. The myth is described as "writers believe they must perform certain steps in a particular order to write “correctly.” Rather than being a lock-step linear process,-". Maybe it's just me being stubborn but I've always been taught to follow an evidence triangle or some type of layout when I wrote essays and it made it a little more easier an...
It sounds like you really take an interest in music and actually take the time out to learn different backgrounds on each. Kinda remind me of my younger sisters. They’re more into Korean music which i think is classified as K-pop.
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