Songs For The Struggling Artist

For a while, I thought my interest in International Television was coming from a desire to escape, to be so far from my own world that I couldn’t even understand the language or the norms. That may still be a factor, but lately I’ve found that watching these things has revealed things about my own culture, the patterns that were underneath that were previously invisible to me because they were just the air I breathe. Of course a TV program is not the culture itself. A TV show tends to reveal things about a culture that it wants to be seen doing that aligns with its values or pushes them in illuminating ways. American TV is not American culture but it is how we like to imagine ourselves – and there a lot of things we DON’T do in our TV that reveal as much as we do. To keep reading Travel through International TV visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog. This is Episode 352 Song: Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Image of Sheep at a Bus Stop by misterfarmer via Pixabay To support this podcas