My Time Learning About Chinese Music and Its Culture

This Thursday, we as a class got to meet a group of children from China that were in Dallas for a performance and to learn about American culture. They came and talked with us for a while on Thursday. The conversation was extremely interesting and said a lot about the differences between the two cultures.

The biggest difference was the much bigger focus in their culture on folk music. When we were asked, outside of popularized folk music, we had literally zero examples to give back to their class. Since America has really never been as big on traditions, outside of maybe the recent super bowl, it makes since. This could be because of the countries extremely young age, or just a difference in culture overall.

Both cultures definitely had a huge amount of diversity in both their music, and many regions that enjoy different types of music. Also, just as a side note, the fact that they mentioned Michael Jackson as a well known favorite artist makes me wonder how long he has been popular in China, and if he is viewed in the same light as bands in America that have been around for a long time like the Beatles, or as something on the radio like other popular music.