A moment that is generally agreed to have had a significant influence on pop culture and everyday life. While the term was coined by Rose McGowan in context of the #MeToo movement, and is mostly associated with the K-pop community, the phenomenon is universal and a basic component of how culture works.
Real world events such as social/political movements, the election of a new U.S. President, major catastrophes and disasters, as well as entertainment such as movies, music and TV, can all function as cultural resets. Notable cultural resets in relatively recent memory include:
* The Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964
* The Watergate scandal of 1974
* The release of Nevermind by Nirvana in 1991
* The September 11, 2001 attacks
* The election and inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009
* The COVID-19 pandemic
Real world events such as social/political movements, the election of a new U.S. President, major catastrophes and disasters, as well as entertainment such as movies, music and TV, can all function as cultural resets. Notable cultural resets in relatively recent memory include:
* The Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964
* The Watergate scandal of 1974
* The release of Nevermind by Nirvana in 1991
* The September 11, 2001 attacks
* The election and inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009
* The COVID-19 pandemic
"The Nineties politically started with the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 and the Soviet Union dissolving on December 26, 1991, and ended with both the 2000 Presidential election which saw the victory of George W. Bush and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 which left people so stupefied that it functioned as something of a cultural reset button." - TV Tropes' article on the 1990s
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Get the cultural reset mug.It is a Social Justice Warrior movement that is essentially segregation and extremely racist. SJWs claim that groups of people "own" their cultures and nobody is allowed to use it except for that race.
SJW: I am helping the world by enforcing the laws of cultural appropriation!
Normal person: *Proceeds to beat the absolute shit out of this potato*
Normal person: *Proceeds to beat the absolute shit out of this potato*
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Get the Cultural Appropriation mug.an emotional/mental condition wherein an individual is so malaligned with the culture lived in that it brings on anxiety, stress and an inability to adapt to the culture they are immersed in.
a californian trying to live in the deep south or vice versa could become victims of cultural dysmorphia because their cultures are diametrically opposed.
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Get the cultural lag mug.A term used by people who try to make someone feel guilty about their discovery of another culture different than their own. (It's usually used by a white person or a radical sjw doing it to a white person) In general, it has no basis since no human within the human race can truly appropriate another culture. We are all related.
Person 1: Look at your hair! Why do you have braids? That's cultural appropriation.
Person 2: I like it. I think it's cute.
Person 1: So? It's still cultural appropriation.
Person 2: Braids are universal. They belong to several different cultures - just like humans do.
Person 2: I like it. I think it's cute.
Person 1: So? It's still cultural appropriation.
Person 2: Braids are universal. They belong to several different cultures - just like humans do.
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Get the cultural appropriation mug.A popular cultural trend that leaves a negative impact on society, either through encouragement for the populace to ignore greater issues, even regarding itself, to direct more attention to instant gratification (in more modern terms, "consume product and then get excited for next product"), mass psychological harm, glorification of disreputable traits such as crime, vulgarity, or materialism, or other effects that can leave a moral of intellectual "hole" in societal values.
K-pop is a commonly cited example of a cultural sinkhole, with it's propagation of unrealistic beauty standards, immoral corporate practices, and rampant idolatry of people based on personality instead of talent, all upon impressionable youth, it's main demographic.
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Why is there so much hatred in the world? If everyone followed neo-culturalism then we would all just get along.
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