As a Korean international student, I feel that the culture of the United States is pretty different from that of my homeland, (South) Korea. However, since I have been experienced American culture around for three years, even though still there were some parts that are still hard to adjust, I know that I gradually have become a part of this culture.
When it comes to the two culture, according to the Dr. Snow's article, there is a severance of the science culture and the humanity culture because of the lack of communication between the two. Each side of the intellectuals do not even try to understand the other and that is enlarging the gap. This disparity between one extreme literary intellectual and the opposite extreme science intellectual is quite influential to this society.
The most of you might feel the same way as mine, the most distinctive "two culture" paradigm is to be shown in our UCLA campus. Our campus is mainly divided into North -- Humanities/Letters majors and South -- Science/ Engineering majors. No humanity classes are lectured on South campus and No science classes on North campus. As a political science major student, I've never visited South campus and didn't even need to. Learning an academic political strategies and theories (highly humanitarian parts), natural science is far from my interest and studies. UCLA campus shows this disparity very well.
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| North Campus -- Humanities/ Art |
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| South Campus -- Natural Science/Engineering/Math |
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| Star Wars Movie Scene |
However, today, the clear disparity between two culture is closing, which is called, "The Third Culture." This new paradigm represents the literary scientists, or the art with technologies in the contemporary pop culture. In these days, many artistic culture is coming from technologies. Even though the two cultures were separate for a long time excluding each other in their fields. For example, a lot of sci-fi movies such as Star Wars or Transformer. They are definitely an artistic work but most of the content and basis is from science technologies. Also, Video art could be another typical combination of technology and the art. Utilizing diverse camerawork, it makes great masterpieces today. Nam June Paik, who is the Korean video artist, left outstanding video artworks before he passed away.
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| Nam June Paik - Global Groove, 1973 |
Now I think that the concept of two culture has been already penetrated into the way of my thoughts. I naturally separated the humanities/art from the science regarding totally different two genres like oil and water. Furthermore, I realized that even if they were thought to be opposite in some ways, they also had been collaborated each other since before, which is good. By doing so, we could more diversely understand two culture separately and together as well. It can broaden my perspective to see my own studies of Political Science. From now on, I would try not to differentiate one from another that I used to do, but think them collaboratively so as "Consilience" to illuminate unique aspects of every each academic field.
Citations
Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge UP, 1959. Print.
Kelly, Kevin. "The Third Culture." The Third Culture. N.p., n.d. Web. Feb. 1998.
Humanities vs Science: Does One Score over the Other? Youtube. N.p., 16 Mar. 2015. Web. 5 Apr. 2015. <https://youtu.be/387k_zunwME>.
Global Groove, 1973. Dir. Nam J. Paik. Youtube. N.p., 1 Sept. 2010. Web. 5 Apr. 2015. <https://youtu.be/7UXwhIQsYXY>.
"South Korean VS American Culture - Alyssa Williams-Sinn." South Korean VS American Culture - Alyssa Williams-Sinn. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Apr. 2015. <https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/alyssa-williams-sinn/french-culture>.
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