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'Creating My Own Cultural Bubble': Cultural Consumption of Japanese Spirituality in Anime
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meanings. For Tim, book, or “the written words,” is the most powerful source, without
which he could not be “anywhere near where I am today.” And he incorporates the use of
the media into his spiritual practice:
Tim: So, you’ll find information on them (web sites). And then as you get more into it, you’ll be looking for rituals, because in early stages, you wanna know what the right words are to say. … Eventually, you kinda get to the point where you don’t really go on the Internet any more, because you’ve done about hours of searching you can do, you can receive certain amount of basic information and then you have to go inside and figure things out for yourself and I think the next step is to go BACK (emphasis) out and kinda relay off of people, get their ideas, help reformulate your own, so that you come up with like…. You know you’re constantly, constantly moving up and up and up and up and giving more and more perspectives, but you gotta be in the next step. For me, eventually, after I’ve really figured out all the internal stuff and understand that, then I’ll go back to the Internet and go back to the books, ’cause I haven’t bought a Wicca book for at least a year, at least.
Tim does not right now search on the Internet or read new books because he is in the place
where he needs to “internalize” all the information drawn from the media.
Third, an interesting aspect in their media practices is on the selectivity. They are
very selective in consuming media artifacts and the most important criteria for the
selectivity seems to be their own religious identity. It is well exemplified in Mahdi’s
interview, where he employs a metaphor of “cultural bubble” to describe his cultural
practice:
Interviewer: You don’t feel any lack of cultural information because you don’t watch TV? Mahdi: It’s always I do. Um, but I don’t feel like it’s a bad thing. Because I know, I watched television so many when I was a kid. And they haven’t done anything new. If there’s anything, it’s gotten worse. And it just not worth it, you know. I mean, if like the hottest topic is Britney Spears, I don’t wanna watch it (laughs). You know, she doesn’t even write her own music. I guess what I do is I kind of create my own cultural bubble. Like, the music I listen to and movies that I watch, you know, they are all influenced by American culture. But, in this way, I can select what it is I am gonna let into my bubble.
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meanings. For Tim, book, or “the written words,” is the most powerful source, without
which he could not be “anywhere near where I am today.” And he incorporates the use of
the media into his spiritual practice:
Tim: So, you’ll find information on them (web sites). And then as you get more into
it, you’ll be looking for rituals, because in early stages, you wanna know what the
right words are to say. … Eventually, you kinda get to the point where you don’t
really go on the Internet any more, because you’ve done about hours of searching
you can do, you can receive certain amount of basic information and then you have
to go inside and figure things out for yourself and I think the next step is to go
BACK (emphasis) out and kinda relay off of people, get their ideas, help
reformulate your own, so that you come up with like…. You know you’re
constantly, constantly moving up and up and up and up and giving more and more
perspectives, but you gotta be in the next step. For me, eventually, after I’ve really
figured out all the internal stuff and understand that, then I’ll go back to the Internet
and go back to the books, ’cause I haven’t bought a Wicca book for at least a year,
at least.
Tim does not right now search on the Internet or read new books because he is in the place
where he needs to “internalize” all the information drawn from the media.
Third, an interesting aspect in their media practices is on the selectivity. They are
very selective in consuming media artifacts and the most important criteria for the
selectivity seems to be their own religious identity. It is well exemplified in Mahdi’s
interview, where he employs a metaphor of “cultural bubble” to describe his cultural
practice:
Interviewer: You don’t feel any lack of cultural information because you don’t
watch TV?
Mahdi: It’s always I do. Um, but I don’t feel like it’s a bad thing. Because I know, I
watched television so many when I was a kid. And they haven’t done anything new.
If there’s anything, it’s gotten worse. And it just not worth it, you know. I mean, if
like the hottest topic is Britney Spears, I don’t wanna watch it (laughs). You know,
she doesn’t even write her own music. I guess what I do is I kind of create my own
cultural bubble. Like, the music I listen to and movies that I watch, you know, they
are all influenced by American culture. But, in this way, I can select what it is I am
gonna let into my bubble.
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