I've been thinking about a couple things since class ended just a couple hours ago that I felt like writing about briefly.
Firstly, about a comment I made near the end of class about how we want everything to be easy, simple and logical. I was looking for a snack in my room after class since I hadn't eaten lunch, and I found some packs of ramen noodles under my bed (don't worry they are still sealed and don't expire for another 10 years or so). That didn't sound too bad, so I looked at the directions and it said you have to actually cook them, like on a stove. My reaction in smiley was basically -_- . In words, it's unlikely I'm ever going to cook those noodles, unless I can figure out how to do it in the microwave.
The other thing I've been thinking about is the China Tracy video and the city she created. I personally do not think it was an act of individualism - she herself said that was not her intention at all - she claimed it was a space of culture, where people could be in a community of sorts. She took images and customs of modern China (that greatly combines new and old aspects of the society) and made a virtual world out of it. It didn't strike me as something particularly original or a way for her to escape the supposed lack of individualism in China - it was more a representation of what she saw in her daily life, just a few years in the future. From my experience, individualism and originality are not characteristics typically valued in Chinese society as they are in American society, and I've found that many foreigners do not very well understand why that is the case. And now I'm sprinting away from computer-mediated communication relevance, so I will end my mini-tangent at that. If you are interested you can leave a comment and I'll rant further :)
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