In this week's lecture, the topic of the Material Culture and Globalization was introduced to us. I found it interesting how different cultures had different values of things, which takes me back to the research I did for the first project where I had the statement - "Design should be sexy" and explored how different cultures have different points of views when it comes to design's being "sexy". There was also a fact where apparently the happiest people in the world were stated in one single place, due to their state of living or what not. I disagree with this since different culture's especially myself being Filipino, value things and see things differently from other people and other cultures. I think back to when I was in the Philippines, and seen little kids as old as 5-10 running around laughing and having a good time, but yet looked back at the lifestyle they were living and obviously came from a poor family. And yet they did not care, or knew what it was like to be rich. They were happy the way they were, and I thought this was a god example on how we as humans in the different cultures, value things differently especially relating it back to the material world.
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