WEEK 1 TWO CULTURES

 My name is Roberto Gutierrez, I am a 2nd year business economics major. This has gave me the opportunity to take classes on both sides of campus and while not extremely familiar with the whole campus, I can clearly see there is a divide between the North and South campus. After reading both works by professor Victoria Vesna. and Snow, Charles Snow I think they both greatly helped in my understanding of Two cultures. It was very interesting to learn that Charles Snow originally did not intend to point out the separation of literacy and science intellectuals but that of the rich and poor. Snow blames this whole separation between cultures on the education system when he says "our fanatics belief in education specialization which is more deeply ingrained in the us than in any country in the world, east or west." On UCLA one of the biggest difference we can see is the building infrastructure, like professor Victoria states our newer buildings, which is most of the south campus, are built more in a corporate/business style. From this picture below we can see just from the overview the change of colors and architecture difference from the North and South.

(image 1: ucla virtual tour)

Kevin Kelly talks about a great point in his article The Third Culture, were he discusses how stereotype of culture are also to blame for the divide between two cultures. In this article he points out how for the longest time "musicians are esteemed. Novelists are hip. Film directors are cool. Scientist, on the other hand, are .. nerds." That was until recently in the past two decades with the rise of technology a third culture has arisen on that Kelly calls the nerd culture. That is what Thomas Samuel Kuhn refers to when he talks about paradigm shifts, how something that we know now can very well change in the future.

(Image 2: Sterotypes)

(Image 3: Science vs Arts)

This picture I think is a perfect example to describe what David Bohm talks about in his about "On Creativity" where he says " Creativity is, in my view, something that it is impossible t define in words."Creativity

is, in my view, something that it is cover the laws of nature, so that he can predict
impossible to define in words.

CreativityCreativity

is, in my view, something that it is cover the laws of nature, so that he can predict
impossible to define in words. is, in my view, something that it is cover the laws of nature, so that he can predict
impossible to define in words.

Images:

University of California, Los Angeles. in Virtual Reality. (n.d.). Retrieved April 22, 2023, from https://www.youvisit.com/tour/ucla/81405?tourid=tour1_11_15_15_32109 

ShanKula, |. “Fighting Stereotypes.” Mental Illness: From the Eyes of a College Student, 20 Nov. 2014, https://nomorestigmakula.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/fighting-stereotypes/. 

Morgan, Jules. “The Third Culture | Science.” Art vs Science in a Global Pandemic, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.279.5353.992. 

Sources:

Snow, C.P. Tuo Cultures (Cambridge, U.R.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1959).

Vesna, Victoria. Toward a Third Culture: Being in between (Leonardo, Vol. 34, No. 2. 2001).

Kelly, Kevin. “The Third Culture.” Edge.org, 27 Feb. 1998, 

        https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-third-culture. 

Bohm, D. “On Creativity.” Leonardo, vol. 1, no. 2, 1968, pp. 137–49. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1571951. Accessed 23 Apr. 2023.

Vesna, Victoria. “Lecture Part 3.” Accessed 22 Apr. 2023.