“People
opinion on wearing mangalsutra by women”
My topic was all about the
“people opinion on wearing mangalsutra by women”. While going through this
topic I got opportunity to explore different aspect that is associated with it.
I got opportunity to learn various aspect of the popular culture and correlate
the topic with such theories, which are very much applicable in our life. In
this course, I was introduced to the theories like popular Beliefs, Myths, Icons, rituals and Stereotypes. All the theories were very much informative and essential in
understanding the surroundings in which we live our life. Among many theories,
popular belief, myths and the ritual are very much related to my popular
cultural topic.
After going through these theories the most
interesting fact that I was able to find and research is the myth and the
popular belief that is associated with my topic. My topic is quite religious
and the cultural one that is practiced by all the Hindu women. Mangalsutra hold the popular
belief that on wearing it by woman, her husband will hold everlasting life and
will always be blessed by the Holy Spirit. They wear it until their death i.e.
their entire life seeking blessing from the god and goddesses. It also possess the popular myth that husband
will hold everlasting life. However, no one is immortal, i.e. everyone has to
die so despite of wearing the mangalsutra by women, and husband dies which is
the tragic moment. People’s opinion about
wearing mangalsutra is related to belief towards their religion and towards
their god. When women do not wear this ornament, they believe that some omen is
going to place soon, which is the sad moment in their life. After going through
this course, I was able to analyze the theories to my topic. Before, going
through this course I was always ignored from all this sort of the theories.
These theories seem simple in seeing but while going through it, all the words,
theories were very much informative and essential in our life. I am so much
thankful that I was able to deeply analyze the popular belief and myth in my
topic and I was able to share those findings to my mom, grandma and sisters.
All were happy for my findings. In this sense, I believe that I got good
insight in these sorts of the theories. Moreover, heroes, cult of the
celebrity, stereotypes etc. were all the interesting findings from my analyses.
As before going
through this course, I used to take any sort of the topic in the simple way and
used to feel relax. It happened to me because we were very new to different
aspect of viewing and thinking. When we were introduced to different theories,
I now realized that all the simple words are also delicate and challenging and
provides valuable insight. I now started to see my chosen popular culture with
different dimension. I was able to find out the hidden stories that were
located to my topic. I was clear about the myth, beliefs, stereotypes, cult of
the celebrity and so on. Now I realized that what components are most required
to form the culture and later the popular one in the given mainstream culture. Finally,
I am now able to locate the impact caused because of the culture that is
popular in the mainstream culture and the society. Hence, in this way I think of my
popular culture subject in a different way based on my analysis
Saroj,
ReplyDeleteI also agree the thing you have stated that we were used to take the things and topic lightly before as we were not known to any theories and way of thinking before we used to analyze what we see in front not inside it. we are more known to clear about the myth, beliefs, stereotypes, cult of the celebrity now so we can analyse anything from many aspects.