Once a professor thought I was really "out there" when I said I like to study archaeology and linguistics together becuase it helped to reveal how the people "thought". Just maybe I am not that far off the mark afterall.
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Once a professor thought I was really "out there" when I said I like to study archaeology and linguistics together becuase it helped to reveal how the people "thought". Just maybe I am not that far off the mark afterall.
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Once a professor thought I was really "out there" when I said I like to study archaeology and linguistics together becuase it helped to reveal how the people "thought". Just maybe I am not that far off the mark afterall.
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You're not out there at all. This kind of finding is exactly why I went into cognitive science for my major, even if it's not obviously related to the field, many of my professors would immediately see the relevance.
This makes me think about syncopation and funk. In a sense it makes the concept of syncopation specific to a cultural context.
My comment is purely speculative but I wonder if this helps explain why popular music from english speaking countries always seems to do better than the same from non English speaking countries.
Biased much? You could ask the same question as, is this why Non-Western Pop music is "better" than Western Pop?
Even within areas of a set language, people hear things differently. It can be difficult to understand your own language spoken with a strong accent.
20 years ago I moved from London to Mildenhall in Suffolk. A year later, they hired a local boy with a very strong accent in a do-it-yourself shop. I couldn't understand him and had to ask to speak with somebody else. Over the next few years, he lost his strong accent.
A few years earlier, in Las Palmas, Gran Canary, the man in the bank had a bit of trouble with my attempt at Spanish, then had to ring mainland Spain to OK my credit card. He had trouble making his Spanish understood to the person he was speaking to in Spain.
A friend who had been learning Spanish for years went for a change to a different area of Spain for his holidays. He spoke to a man who clearly did not understand him and told him (in English) to speak English as he couldn't understand his Spanish.
20 years ago I moved from London to Mildenhall in Suffolk. A year later, they hired a local boy with a very strong accent in a do-it-yourself shop. I couldn't understand him and had to ask to speak with somebody else. Over the next few years, he lost his strong accent.
A few years earlier, in Las Palmas, Gran Canary, the man in the bank had a bit of trouble with my attempt at Spanish, then had to ring mainland Spain to OK my credit card. He had trouble making his Spanish understood to the person he was speaking to in Spain.
A friend who had been learning Spanish for years went for a change to a different area of Spain for his holidays. He spoke to a man who clearly did not understand him and told him (in English) to speak English as he couldn't understand his Spanish.
QUOTE (Hmm+Dec 2 2006, 02:07 AM)
Biased much? You could ask the same question as, is this why Non-Western Pop music is "better" than Western Pop?
When I say better, I don't mean artistically better, I mean in terms of sales and airplay, the two are not always riding in tandem. Western music does well in a lot of non western countries but the reverse is not true. I don't pay attention to the music charts myself but I have kids who do. You almost never hear non western music on those types of shows.
I have friends that spend a lot of time in the far east and they tell me western music is heard there a lot, along with local stuff.
Even in Europe, UK and US music does well in terms of airplay and sales but the reverse is not true. I also think there is some kind of automatic bias in the west against any song not sung in English. I've often wondered if this is in some way connected with the lower prevalence of second language skills in these two countries.
Please understand that for me personally, the origin of the music is irrelevant, I listen and it either moves me or it doesn't. Simply rejecting a piece of music because it's not from your own backyard is to deny yourself another potentially fulfilling experience in my opinion.
When I say better, I don't mean artistically better, I mean in terms of sales and airplay, the two are not always riding in tandem. Western music does well in a lot of non western countries but the reverse is not true. I don't pay attention to the music charts myself but I have kids who do. You almost never hear non western music on those types of shows.
I have friends that spend a lot of time in the far east and they tell me western music is heard there a lot, along with local stuff.
Even in Europe, UK and US music does well in terms of airplay and sales but the reverse is not true. I also think there is some kind of automatic bias in the west against any song not sung in English. I've often wondered if this is in some way connected with the lower prevalence of second language skills in these two countries.
Please understand that for me personally, the origin of the music is irrelevant, I listen and it either moves me or it doesn't. Simply rejecting a piece of music because it's not from your own backyard is to deny yourself another potentially fulfilling experience in my opinion.
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