Pop Culture References
The video game Sleeping Dogs by Square Enix and United Front Games, set in Hong Kong, focuses on the Chinese Triads from the perspective of an undercover agent, Wei Shen. The gangs Sun On Yee and 18K are based on the real life gangs Sun Yee On and 14K. In the game, as in reality, the two gangs are portrayed as harsh rivals, with each committing violent acts on one another, particularly 18K on Sun On Yee, as the 18K are the main gang antagonists.
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“There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.”
—Charles Krauthammer (b. 1950)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle- class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)