Blog Post#2 - Chi Wai

For the blog post 2, I would like to focus on the oral culture in story. In our society, we have another term that call “Narrative”.  “Narrative” means a connected events, which can present to a reader or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words.

To continue, I would like to talk about how the oral culture applied in people live from the very beginning to now in our modern society. During the article ”History of story”, which said that in the old day, people in the communities focus on storytelling so much, some of the stories become a culture heritage. The oral storytelling basically is used to teach children on proper behavior, cultural history, communal identity and values, etc. Since people in the old day don’t have the high education, they might now know how to write so well. The only way that to keep the story is through oral storytelling. People pass that from one generation to one generation.

In our modern society now, oral culture in storytelling is also very popular. “Radio drama” and “Storytelling Radio” are the very popular media for audience to listen story. Because of the invention of the high technology today, the invented of the storytelling radio that made people can very easy to listen the story or narrative at home or everywhere. Also, our society is growing so fast everyday, people in our modern society is kind of being lazy, they don’t want to type so much, they prefer speak to write. Some people are lazy on reading, they would just want to listen rather than read. There are some of the reasons that made the Radio drama or storytelling radio becoming the mainstream event.

Finally, after compared the oral culture in story in the old day and the modern society. No matter in the old day, or in the modern society, according to the points that I pointed out above, oral culture is important to people. Sometimes, I would think that oral culture is better than writing culture because oral is speaking straightforward to the meaning.