hose words have no meaning when it comes to music.
Do you understand music theory to be pronouncing such a judgement ?
Do you know what is and isnt a balanced piece of music, whats a decatonic or do-decatonic scale to make that pronouncement ?
Or do you consider yourself knowledgable about music simply because you listen to any number of vocally mismatched, scalarly inconsistent and tonal distorted trash that plays mostly on the radio ?
If you dont understand music, you have no business trying to judge music !
For you have to understand what constitutes music to guage its flaws or technical mastery.
I cannot explain to you (nor am i inclined to) what it means to be 'technically closer to perfection' in musical terms if you dont know the basics of music.
But make no mistake- musical quality is quite clear-cut if you know the fundamentals or beyond. Much like how the untrained mind wont pick up the logical
error in an engineering report, the untrained ear will also not pick up the nuances of music (though many do because of their innate talent in this regard).
A Carnatic or Hindustani musician will find Schubert or Chopin to be far superior in musical quality than Brittney Spears. Or a western classical musician will find Rabindrasangeet to be far superior than filmi music. Or consider Bheem Sen Joshi to be a superior vocalist to Sonu Nigam. It has nothing to do with taste or elitism. It has everything to do with understanding what constitutes music and appreciating a piece/player based on their technical mastery of music.
So Mr. Culture, the governments of nations should now be in business of propping up unpopular sports with taxpayer money? Which sports should be funded this way, or does this pinnacle of sports limit itself to test cricket? You can take your socialist ideas and stick em you know where, thats what I think. Why should my money be used to prop up Squash?
Test cricket is one of the few sports i can think of - badminton would be another. But in general, i am not much into sports so i dont care much about it.
As per propping up unpopular sports with taxpayer's money - well they'r already doing it with arts and as i explained to you, with good cause.
And as far as i am concerned, you can take your hyper-capitalist 'i'll sell me mum if the price is right' completely self serving and laughably ignorant philosophy of life and stick it up where the sun doesnt shine.
Your tax money is NOT something on which you have absolute say, given that it serves the society as much as it serves you,if not more tilted towards society. You arnt doing a service to the society by paying taxes- you are fulfilling your obligation. Some of those obligations won't match what you like but as far as i am concerned, its tough beans for you. As long as my money isnt being used to kill someone or some creature or torment it/torment people, i am not gonna create a fuss.
"the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another."
Again - expected. Very American, very crude and very blaize. Much like most of your country. Culture is what you described above. But much much more than that as well.
Its the celebration of all the worthwhile accomplishments of man- which given how common your 'sell me mum' types are, is few and far between.
Culture is also the sum total of philosophical and artistic heritage of a nation. Given that your nation doesnt understand the concept of heritage very well and is extremely illiterate about its own heritage ( i dont blame them honestly- if my country was as stark historically as your's i'd not be very inclined to learn about it) and given that you'r a quintessential immigrant/2nd gen 'wannabe', i dont expect you to understand these nuances either.