Rain Rain rain. . .

Korean pop star Rain's lawsuit which was published by a media some time back has been published again. This news after being published, was talked about for a while before it died and once again it is talked about but only to tell the outcome of the lawsuit.

As shown in this article, the media tells us about the aftermath of the lawsuit against Rain for canceling his show in Hawaii. The lawsuit started with Click Entertainment suing Rain for canceling his concert last minute and causing the show producers to lose a big amount of money. It went on to say on how Rain did not want to pay for the cancellation. This commotion went on for a while and all of a sudden, it just disappeared. It clearly shows that the people did not care too much about that news after a while as the media just had it over-blown causing it to lose its audience.

Then all of a sudden, the news pop out again and it seems that the media is with the pop star when earlier on it seemed that they were against him. The current article shows a picture of him happy and smiling whereas, the pictures on the previous articles showed him down and distressed. Here, the media is making us believe what it wants us to believe when in actually case that might not be the case. It might just be Rain trying to portray an image og himself such that the public will support him.

All in all, what can we say about the media and it audiences? Is it the media leading and way and the audience just holding its finger and blindly following it? Or the audience misguiding the media and making it seem as tho they have the upper hand?
Can it even be that the media AND audience are working hand in hand? =)

Culture...hmm....

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, Society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
(John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

Culture is something that we are all thought to value and respect as well as follow. But, do we?
That is a question which is answered by all one way or the other. Yes, we may say "Of course we do, is that even a question?" and as usual, we contradict ourselves all the time. Singapore's culture for example, it says it is a various culture society which lives in harmony. Yet again, that is easily contradicted by the society itself today. For example, the couple who got jailed for passing out material that was against the Muslims.

It is true that Singaporeans do live in harmony with various cultures together. Than again, are they confident enough to say that each culture is accepted by the other? It is something which shows itself over and over again in it's various forms. Children are thrown into different cultural thinking which they carry with themselves as they grow and then pass it on to their next generation. Of course there are generations which tend to break these norms and start to have a whole new perception of the many cultures around them by unlearning the many things that have been passed down to them.

Everyone is narrow-minded to a certain extent and accepts certain things. If one was to be thrown into a hole where only people of his culture exists, do you think he will be able to accept other cultures when he returns to the normal society? OR, if it were the other way round and he had to return to a place from various cultures to one would he still be feeling the same way?


"People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live.
Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist."
( Japanese peace Activist and Buddhist Leader of Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International, b.1928)