Today's presentation on Barack Obama's election campaign took me back to my childhood days. It was 1990 and I was in grade 7. Democracy in Nepal was recently re-established and a new election was taking place to replace the old 'Panchayat system', direct rule of king.
There were different political parties participating in the election but there were no musical messages like that in Barack Obama's case and no huge media coverage. Obama had used musical messages and neo media to target his people but our politicians were not that clever enough. The only similarity was the use of accessories like caps, T-shirt, pen, note books and stickers for their election campaign. Things that I remember are small round stickers that had impression of election symbol of political parties and a small plastic plate attached to a safety pin, with a message to support that political party.As I had seen my soldier father put on all his medals and decoration , when he had to attend any formal function, I thought of copying him. When I went to school one day, I stuck all those small round stickers in my school uniform in a way it looked like medals and those plastic plates as my decoration. People on my way to school were giving me a queer look, but I was finding it normal. Things changed when I reached school and my friends started teasing me. I then realized how funny my medals looked. In my class that day, my teacher had elaborated about election campaign and all those accessories, and today's presentation on Obama's campaign took me back to those nice days..It was nostalgic..
There were different political parties participating in the election but there were no musical messages like that in Barack Obama's case and no huge media coverage. Obama had used musical messages and neo media to target his people but our politicians were not that clever enough. The only similarity was the use of accessories like caps, T-shirt, pen, note books and stickers for their election campaign. Things that I remember are small round stickers that had impression of election symbol of political parties and a small plastic plate attached to a safety pin, with a message to support that political party.As I had seen my soldier father put on all his medals and decoration , when he had to attend any formal function, I thought of copying him. When I went to school one day, I stuck all those small round stickers in my school uniform in a way it looked like medals and those plastic plates as my decoration. People on my way to school were giving me a queer look, but I was finding it normal. Things changed when I reached school and my friends started teasing me. I then realized how funny my medals looked. In my class that day, my teacher had elaborated about election campaign and all those accessories, and today's presentation on Obama's campaign took me back to those nice days..It was nostalgic..
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