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1-Describe some links between food and culture. How is food linked to your identity? 2-What are some concrete ways in which individualism, competition, and materialism are good for society? In what ways can these become destructive for society? 3-In what ways does American culture shape your personal lifegoals? 4-How do items of material culture that you have with you in class today reflect your beliefs, values, rules of behavior, and other aspects of nonmaterial culture? 5-What effect do you think global television coverage and communications networks are having on cultural universals? Will global diversity increase or decrease? Explain your answer. 6-What are some examples from your own experience of Baudrillard’s idea of simulation? 7-How do some images found in popular culture contribute to negative stereotypes regarding race, class, and/or gender?

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life — I wrote this some years ago — that were worth the postage. The penny-post is, commonly, an institution through which you seriously offer a man that penny for his thoughts which is so often safely offered in jest. And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.…