parablue74
New member
Recently, I've seen many music competitions have age limits, no younger than this age, no older than this age..
I question the fundamentals of the music experience.. why are there an age discrimination???
What is the difference in reasoning between age discrimination and racial discrimination??? Just because one has political interconnections and the other does not??? Isn't it still discrimination by itself???
This type of ruling, I feel, tend to undermine the main reason for music itself..
Music is free for all..
Music unites all people..
So often have I handled Indian events, and it's so exciting to see their culture, that they bring their whole families to enjoy partying together, from their grandparents, parents, children..relatives.. all dancing to music, all having a fun time together.. that really builds family bonding..and every time I see this, I had really hope Chinese had such culture too.. (ok, I'm chinese). My family would have better bonding had it be..
Music as a culture, can be a separatist entity by itself.. I remember my days of Hard Rock and Metal, my self-display of torn jeans, long hair and 'bad' behavior was detesting for my parents.. but they learned to accept those as days passed. However, they were more glad when I grew older and started becoming 'normal'..
A separatist altitude to music itself is to have events dividing the different age groups, thus bringing further the gap further away between generations, breaking the already commonly 'damaged' family bonds that most people have.
I really hope that our music culture in Singapore should not engage in further discrimination of these sort, but see how important music is to our lives, how useful it could be for common sharing and breaking the ice between ages, races, countries, religions.. etc etc
I question the fundamentals of the music experience.. why are there an age discrimination???
What is the difference in reasoning between age discrimination and racial discrimination??? Just because one has political interconnections and the other does not??? Isn't it still discrimination by itself???
This type of ruling, I feel, tend to undermine the main reason for music itself..
Music is free for all..
Music unites all people..
So often have I handled Indian events, and it's so exciting to see their culture, that they bring their whole families to enjoy partying together, from their grandparents, parents, children..relatives.. all dancing to music, all having a fun time together.. that really builds family bonding..and every time I see this, I had really hope Chinese had such culture too.. (ok, I'm chinese). My family would have better bonding had it be..
Music as a culture, can be a separatist entity by itself.. I remember my days of Hard Rock and Metal, my self-display of torn jeans, long hair and 'bad' behavior was detesting for my parents.. but they learned to accept those as days passed. However, they were more glad when I grew older and started becoming 'normal'..
A separatist altitude to music itself is to have events dividing the different age groups, thus bringing further the gap further away between generations, breaking the already commonly 'damaged' family bonds that most people have.
I really hope that our music culture in Singapore should not engage in further discrimination of these sort, but see how important music is to our lives, how useful it could be for common sharing and breaking the ice between ages, races, countries, religions.. etc etc
