Wednesday Logic

Today we went over more translation issues with regard to symbolic logic and went over the final exam questions. Note that the final exam is posted on the web at the bottom of the syllabus. The quiz question today is in regard to issues with translation and that is do you think movies are/is the most powerful tool we have to change other cultures to be more like ours? As examples of this I compared an American song which was modified in its presentation in the US to appear primarily romantic with the songs use in Germany and France where it was the main song in a musical that puts an entirely different slant on the words! (Is Europe trying to influence the US culture?) As a further comparison I brought up Disney's Frozen (again) and the translation of that into at least 25 different languages - as for example Arabic. Notice that often the translations are modified to appeal to the foreign culture.