In Omar’s lecture we discussed the film “Merchants of Cool” and its relation to Asian American culture studies. In this film, these teens are being targeted by market researchers in order to make money off of them and these teenagers give in by actually doing so. With this back and forth of buying and selling a hegemony and a culture is developed amongst these teens. The same is done with Asians in American culture. Asians are buying American products which leads to some form of giving in to acclimate to a higher order for the better of everyone.
These articles both discuss non-traditional forms of resistance. For example, an often overlooked power that women utilize against the patriarchal society is shopping. At first, I thought this was an incredibly sexist remark that the author has made, but as they made their argument I realized that this was very true. Women using their husband's money and buying what they want is in a way giving in to a hegemonic system and an act of cultural defiance. The same way that ricers buy cars which given to the hegemonic system of capitalism but they take these cars and design them to be reflections of their identities. These cars not only are a hybrid form of assimilation and resistance, they are reflections of their personality. The customization of ricers can also be considered a form of art which is discussed in the second paragraph.
In the second article they discussed art as a form of cultural resistance. Radical resistance
groups realized that their traditional pickets and cries for justice were deliberately being ignored and unnoticed by attaching their art to the resistance, not only are they immersing themselves in a political standpoint but, embellishing and emphasizing the beauty behind their decisions and causes. An example of a form of undeniable resistance is the Bollywood flash mob to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. By performing their dance in front of a popular and widely used supermarket, they are attracting an audience by utilizing a very popular and public form of art and modifying it to spread their message.
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