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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.
You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.
Too often, it is presumed that young people will only like art that they can immediately relate to. Working-class students may be steered towards popular culture like hip-hop, new media and film on the basis that they will find older art forms such as opera or ballet irrelevant.