Why can't Spanish be like English, and English be like French, andFrench be like Arabic?

Language is ❌ just a 💻📠 💁💍 to 📱🙆; it’s also 👦 👥. Language is a 👊💵💶, a 💱 group, a 📕📖 of 🔡 that can 🐝 ➕ to create meaningful 1⃣➕2⃣. Language is given a set of 📋, and is used to convey 📄📲 and 💭 to 👫👬👭. But language isn’t just a 🔐 📔; it’s a 🍴 of the🍕 —a 👦 👥. 👬👭💕 more than others, it is their 👥.

❓ isn’t 👄🇪🇸 like👄 🇺🇸, and 👄🇺🇸 like👄 🇫🇷? Well, for a language to 🐝 a language, 🎠👶 ❌ just 👀 at the 📖📌 or 💭 👆 the 🔡. 🎠👶 must 👀 beyond the 📖 and into the 😱 👥, the legitimacy of the language, the 📰📇 and the 💭💥💫 of 🔡. A language is only legitimate if it can ✊ the ⚓💪 of 📚📘 and 📜📓. No 1⃣ 👶 language can 🐝 👑 to the other, ❓ Well, language in itself isn’t 👯. So for something that isn’t even considered 👯 how can it 🐝 👑 to another?

Language creates an 🚗🏠-🏡🌳🌰🌿 💑 with the 👫👬👭 who share that language and the 👫👬👭 who have ❌ 💭 as to what that a particular language may mean. 👄🇺🇸 may 🐝 👀 as an 🇯🇵🇩🇪🇰🇷🇮🇹 👄; but how can it 🐝 an 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹 👄 when 👫👬👭 are obligated to 🔬✏ it. As language is an 👥, it creates 🚧🚧 for 👲👨👳💂 who have ❌ ❔ as to what “👄🇺🇸” is. But of course, even if a 👳👨👲💂 knew 👄🇺🇸, unless their 🔡📒 was 📂📁 with 🏤, 🏫, and 🏢 🔡 they wouldn’t be taken as seriously and would be 📌✒ as 😋, or just a 😶 👳. Should it matter whether a 👦 is 😱 “👆 and 👇” or 👇 and 👆, or “to whom” or “to who”? The 👱 📝 🇩🇪 are gone, but ❓ do we still expect 👲👨👦👳 and basically 👦👧👩 else to 👄🇺🇸👄?

Whether a 👦 is from a 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇮🇹 👄 their language or whether they are from a 🇮🇹🇯🇵🇷🇺 💵 🕓 📝 the “🇯🇵🇰🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪 👄,” 👄🇺🇸? Regardless, they will feel as 🏡🌳🌰🍂 to the common language like other 👫👬👭 feel in the 👪 of a different language.

👄🇺🇸 isn’t the only language in the 🌐. However, 🎠👶 believe it is—well that it should 🐝. But why? 👄🇺🇸 is❌❌ else but a bunch of borrowed 🔡. A language that was borrowed, that brings together so much 👳🇯🇵💂🇪🇸, and then ✅ its 👄👦 to judge other languages, doesn’t seem ✅ at all. How 🔨👏👍 a borrowed language and its 👄👦 ✋💨 👳💂👨 groups to 💰📥💷 their 👥 and 📝 the 👄🇺🇸, when 👄🇺🇸 is only but a 🍦🍯 of languages and 👥👥. Regardless of the 👘👚🇯🇵🇷🇺🇮🇹 and language 🚧🚧, a language is ➕ than just 🔡; it’s a 👦 👥 and potentially their entire 👶👧👩.

This was one of my hardest blog posts to write because it went from being a meaningful blog post to a well written text message. Using the emoji’s to replace words was difficult but easy. I knew what emoji I wanted to use for each word I wanted to replace, however I was afraid that none of the audience would understand what I was saying. I made many compromises while writing because I knew I had to choose words that I would be able to easily or effectively communicate the meaning through emoji’s. Standard English of course was included, however if I ever had to type or write with emoji’s right smack in the middle of my sentences I would probably go nuts. The way I had to create words through emoji's was difficult since there isn't an emoji for absolutely everything. However whatever much I could do, I did, so that the meaning of the post wasn't changed too dramatically. Ultimately I don’t think I was able to fully get my point across effectively.

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"You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right?" - Ad Analysis

"Welcome to Sant’Agata Bolognese. Home of Lamborghini"

Here is a Lamborghini advertisement, one of the most renowned and most expensive cars in America, Europe, and Japan. This advertisement is one of the famous print ads that Lamborghini has released. A car promisingly said to be the car “you buy when you are somebody.”

            The first one ad comes from Lamborghini’s “Welcome to Sant’Agata Bolognese. Home of Lamborghini,” line. This ad, along with many others are composed of a sepia and gray tone, a message in white capitalized letters, and the Lamborghini badge in the upper right corner—a trademark for Lamborghini actually. Here, if not for the famous tone set, message, and badge for Lamborghini there would be no other way to identify what the product is here.

In this specific ad, we’re shown 6 different men, and they’re not the typical young men in the regular ads, they’re older than the average spokesperson for car companies. Each man has a pair of headphones—you know the kind that you see on the ground cabin crew and pilots when the airplane is preparing for take-off. Each man has a pair of headphones, and an activity they are interacting with. There at this magnificent Italian style venue, the three men to the far left are playing a simple card game; the man leaning on the pillar is reading a newspaper, and the man sitting at the table with the two tea cups just has a simple smile on his face; and the men closest to the foreground, that seems to be reading like the man leaning on the pillar; seems pretty casual huh? But when taken a closer look at some of the men, the word “Lamborghini” is seen. The ad takes a deeper step at attracting the audience to the car, not only through the trademark badge in the upper right corner, but the cleanliness and relaxed attire of the spokesmen here.

This ad not only signifies the speed of Lamborghini, the commitment of the company, and extraordinary automobile, but it also induces the audience—mainly directed at a higher class group of individuals with his high reputation and quality ads. Also, there's only two sentences, but regardless it says a whole lot. The two sentences 4 and 3 words long tell a whole story with the pictures and actions going on in the ad. The ad simple yet effective through its use of older men, to show the commitment of its workers to the design and details of the car, but also to show how casual it is to hear and see the Lamborghini. 

This Lamborghini ad welcomes the audience to the famous city where the Lamborghini was born through a picture which not only shows the many perks of the actual car—like the fact that it’s so fast, the people, the men and the actual employees have to take the precaution to plug their ears with a set headphones—just like the land crew for an airline or the myth busters when they’re trying to make something crash or explode. Even though in reality, the Lamborghini like many other vehicles isn't really as dangerously loud as maybe a jet or airplane. This interesting enough ad not only gives the upper class a reason to boast but the ad also conveys a little story through the sepia and gray toned ad. I think the ironic thing about is that this car ad has absolutely no sight of the car in the advertisement. Lamborghini purposely does this in order to entice the audience and attract them to the car gallery and potentially become an owner of a Lamborghini.

Sant’Agata Bolognese, not just a small commune in the midst of Italy but the home of the extraordinary Lamborghini, but sadly, it's not the average car for the middle class or lower class. This car is especially meant for the upper class and of course to attract the middle class into a reputed product that's been the eye of their dreams. 

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Fairfield County Culture Entry #5: Drumroll please, FINAL REFLECTION!

After this both fun and academic exercise, one can draw that Fairfield County’s culture, as well as the culture of the US as a whole, is very unique to the rest of the world. The things we value and the ideas we surround ourselves with come to define who are as a group, and come to outline our own cultural boundaries. Some of the things are, without a doubt, representations of our flaws. However other things are a little better, they are things we can be proud of as a group of people.

Sadly while examining our culture, I found a couple of things to be disturbing. For example, the vast amount of ignorance that my foreign friends tend to associate with America is pretty true for the most part. A large part of our society plays upon our inability to take interest in the world outside our “cultural bounds”. As portrayed by my analyzation of the yahoo article, which pretty much catered to selfish Americans who would only read news articles if it only involved how much money was coming out of their pockets, many people were ignorant of the Arab Spring and Islam in general. They fail to see the meat of the religion (halal obviously) and focus on only the exterior stereotypes that the media chooses to broadcast. Americans do this about many issues happening around us, and it’s a practice that many should rethink indulging in.

The trait or character of being well rounded and knowledgeable about the world around us, or even our own backyard, is highly undervalued among the cultural group that is Fairfield County. What we value is for more irrelevant, as highlighted by batman, the materialistic bags of water that’s calls itself humans look toward shopping or television for interest. Men value money, women, cars, expensive suits. Women value shoes, shopping, Ellen or Pretty Little Liars. Only a small percentage of us value our own ideals or even bother studying and defining what we truly believe in.

The ideals of a terrorist, albeit a little crazy, is an ideal that is strongly held. Yet many people choose only to look on the surface rather than underneath the man in the turban to ask what he truly was thinking at the time he blew his brains out. Due to this, people wrongly judge an entire religion and group of people, without even looking at what they define themselves by.

However we do value things that should be held important. We value female empowerment, and ideal not valued in other parts of the world. We value our family, our relationships, and love. As proven through our shows and movies, we will go to great lengths to defend what we love most, whether if it’s our country, as in Homeland and Unthinkable, or our children like in Finding Nemo. What we as a culture should hold most proud, is our belief in ourselves and in our own abilities. It’s this sense on independence and perseverance that defines people of Fairfield County. No matter if there is racial divide or a physical obstacle in our path, the people of our cultural space, as evident by the values we choose to impose in our media, have the ability to get through any challenge that lies before us.

Every society has its flaws, it’s only after defining those flaws that we can truly target what we need to change so that we as a society can become better. As part of a society, every person has the responsibility of changing their society’s flaws bit by bit. No one has to devote their entire life to it; however small changes made by everyone can eventually form into something much bigger. I believe the flaws of our society lies entirely in the education. If we all, including me, took the time to observe other cultures and not just what’s happening on our favorite show, Fairfield County and America would be a far better place. I don’t believe there should be a single excuse why we should call Muslims, “Islams” (and neither should you). To a certain degree, we should all pledge to look into the world outside of our interests, or we will always be criticized just as “Americandude74 “was. In doing so, we will not only gain awareness of events happening around us, but we may even change what we value as well. With kids in Africa starving, what use is looking at cuff links all day? By becoming well-rounded as a group of people, we can surpass our simple materialistic values and even come to cherish our ideals.

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Fairfield County Culture Entry #2: Oh great, an Ogre! A lesson from fairy tales

The Ogre…oh the horror! No, in this trilogy everything is not as it seem. Shrek is not only an entertaining set of movies for all ages, but it also holds an abundance of societal beliefs that explain the rich liberal society we live in today.

Throughout the movies, the common theme is that love holds importance above all else. In the first movie, Shrek is given the option of fighting for his love or simply accepting his land and living in peace, however he chooses to risk his life to save Fiona. This is a reoccurring theme in many fairy tales and stories, that love is a value held dearly and more important than even our lives at times. An alien could even say that we Earthlings revere or honor the love in our life. (But then again, why would an Alien watch Shrek?)

Shrek, throughout the movies, plays the part of a rough ogre who only wishes for peace. This goes to prove the common misconception that ogres are aggressive, which represents that stereotypes do not apply to everyone. Shrek’s difficulties could be applied to the stereotypical racism of African Americans or Latinos.

In the movies, Shrek and Fiona find true love, as well as donkey and dragon. Each person is from a radically different species, which in life is supposed to represent nationality or ethnicity. Shrek and Fiona are looked down upon by the King and Queen at first, and have to face both dissatisfaction and rejection before Shrek proves himself worthy of being Fiona’s husband.

Yet, even though some of the notions are deemed ridiculous by society’s perspective, for example the wedding of donkey and a dragon, which not associated with something so different as a donkey, they still get married showing that no cultural or ethnical obstacles can truly stop you from fulfilling your dreams and uniting true love.

Unfortunately, at times the ethnic divide that Fairfield County has cannot relate to this cooperation due to the many conflicts that occur because of the mixing of the so many different cultures Fairfield has. At other times, Fairfield County is the perfect blend of races in a kind of melting pot of cultures (Original, I know)

Fiona, a woman of great beauty, has two sides to her that represent that beauty is only skin deep. While during the day she’s a beautiful princess, at night she’s an ogress that is associated with disgust or unattractiveness. Shrek falls in love with her while she’s a woman and even though Fiona’s other bachelor turn away from her after seeing her transformation, Shrek does not. (Surprisingly of course) Shrek’s love does not disappear, supporting that beauty is something much more than what lies before our eyes.

Throughout the films, the idea of female empowerment and independence is shown both by Fiona’s strength as well as her mothers. In the third movie, the princesses are all gathered and held captive while Shrek is in trouble. To save him, they decide to depend on their own power, showing great strength in a time of need and taking up arms against the soldiers holding them captive. This is meant as a message encouraging female power and success, a value that Americans and people within our society uphold with much vigor.

Almost as if made to be analyzed, Shrek provides ironic moments left and right, disproving old and less liberal societal notions and supporting not only self-reliance, but also the right to be our own person. Of all the rights embedded within our society, this is the strongest ideal that we should all keep close.

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Fairfield County Culture Entry #4: He touched the butt

Here comes a movie I’m sure can all revel in the memory of, Finding Nemo! Yes, time for a pleasant flash to one our favorite movies of all time (I’m sure at the die-hard fans you are; you've all seen it in 3-D). Although I’m sure you know it, the plots about a clown fish, Nemo, with a tiny little problem (laugh with me if you get the joke).

 Since he’s a little different, he’s treated differently from the other fish. His dad is over protective of him, restricting him from having the fun other kids his age have. Often in society, those with physical disabilities are often treated differently, although they are capable of much more of the same things as the rest of us. At young ages, they often get picked on as well.

 After he gets captured and taken away, Nemo finds the courage and gains the confidence needed to believe in his own abilities. He finds himself in tank full of other fish, and the leader, the most respected one of all, has a deformity of his own. Nemo learns from him that our physical aspects are only our exterior, and that they should stop us from being what we want to be.  Although initially portrayed as a curious but unconfident fish, he overcomes his challenges and matures into his own person.

The sharks in the movie go against their stereotypical nature. Usually the blood thirsty and evil villains, the sharks start out pretty nice and only desire to be friends with the fish. Although this quickly changes after they smell blood and their true nature comes out, they made a valiant effort at what Pixar wanted to be a “don’t judge a book by its cover” moment.

Marlin, the usually cautious fish, defies his entire character to go out and save his dear son. In his effort, he did almost everything he told Nemo not to do in the beginning (is that hypocritical or what?) but he decides to sacrifice his life for the love of his son. This theme of love over everything truly portray the familial ties we as people value and cherish above all else.  Although normally a simple kids movie Finding Nemo subconsciously gives kids (and us), valuable lessons about life that we should all come to understand.

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