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Ever since I was small I have loved going to different towns and states to gain from folk and places that were different than what I was familiar with. My love for travel and for finding out about different cultures only grew as I got older and eventually I went to varsity to study Urban and Global Development.

I selected this Major just because it might teach me about 2 of my favorite things: towns and other nations. I can always remember entering my first urban studies class and taking a look at the chalk board that related “Don’t Look Past Graffiti Art.” on it. I rolled my eyes and questioned what type of silly situation I had gotten myself into with this class.

I was tickled that any real professor whose experience is in urban studies would inspire not to mention remit that his students focus on the graffiti art that practically screwed the feel and look of many major towns in our country and around the planet. After a short advent of himself, the professor of that class started the semester by showing us a slide-show of graffiti art from across the world. He played the whole show without saying a note of reason.

When it was completed he simply walked over to the chalk board and wrote another line beneath what he’d already written about concentrating to graffiti art. He wrote: “Because it unearths the major issues of that culture’s youth.”.

I got out my notebook for the 1st time that semester and wrote those 2 phrases onto the head of the 1st page. I was still hesitant about where the professor could doubtless be taking an introduction like this, but I was more curious than before after watching the slideshow of graffiti art and realizing just how creative it really was. Our first assignment for that urban studies class was to get an image of graffiti art that was from a major US town and to draft a 2 page reflection on what we presumed the graffiti art made public about that particular town’s youth. I had not got any idea when I selected a picture from Chicago and wrote about it just what I was doing to shape the rest of my life. To make a long story down in size, that urban studies class and in particular our discussion of graffiti art revolutionized my considering the races of the planet. I learned a culture is disclosed by little things like graffiti art that we customarily take as upsetting when we visit somewhere. All that to claim, the next time you travel don’t discount a town’s graffiti art as something repulsive or offensive.

Instead, see what you can find out about the youth of that town thru the graffiti art because I guarantee there’s much to be had.

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