Now within these different mediums come different pop culture icons such as MTV, Cosmopolitan, and The New York Times. ... So for example if someone wants to learn about a new culture, their understanding of that culture will be whatever that they have seen on television. ... Postman also notes that every bit of technology is negatively reshaping the American culture without them even realizing it, that now technology has become a medium, and that it seems to always find itself in a social setting. ...

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Background of Study Contemporary English literature has produced a plethora of novels dealing with the everyday lives of people within the context of their place of origin and their unique culture. ... Nick Hornby, a music and pop-culture critic, has been at the forefront of this genre with works like High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, About a Boy, and How to be Good. ...

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It should be noted that the majority of formal laws concern exactly the rights of women, including their political rights (Ibraeva 2003:11) Inequality between the sexes is mainly based on gender stereotypes, which mean that women's rights were limited both in traditional nomadic Kazakh culture and in the soviet system before transition. ...

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