Semiotic thinking

This class really put forward what I want to do with my semiotic analysis. I’m going to attempt to write about Kurdish culture and how it compared to Western culture before and after the war. Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East consisting of around 30 million people. This is the biggest ethnic group in the world without their own country, although the Kurds in Iraq have enjoyed autonomy for the past 16 years. The way that American culture has seeped into Kurdish culture is due to a huge boom in business, which has made this society even more capitalistic than it was before. Also, before the war, Kurds were still a modern society even though they have been oppressed for as long as any Kurd can remember. Comparing these two culture is where most semiotic analysis will come from. Symbols mean very different things between the cultures and I’d like to look at what these differences are.