Why do people like popular but have trouble accepting symphonic and American music?

By way of analogy, African indigenous music is unbearable to our ears, basically no melody, but Africans just like to listen to; the old Chinese people listen to Peking Opera, Qinqiang, they have never seen any other form of music since they were young, their ears have been stereotyped; and then there is a kind of music in Xinjiang, which is called the "Twelve Mukams", in which there are many "differential tones", that is, many of the notes are keyboards. In Xinjiang, there is a kind of music called "Twelve Mukams", in which there are a lot of "differential tones", that is to say, many of the notes are not played by keyboard instruments at all, and they are "notes in the cracks of the keys", which are out of tune and strange to most people, but they are the cultural treasures of the Uyghur people. The Uyghur people's cultural treasures.

So, the so-called good or bad sound is really a very subjective feeling, there is no objective standard. Nowadays, people accept the popular probably because since the reform and opening up of the music to the public in the middle of Hong Kong and Taiwan, Europe and the United States, Japan and South Korea are mainly pop music, television and radio broadcasts every day, the children from childhood immersed in such a musical environment, and it is natural to think that the popular music is good to listen to. Classical symphonies and operas are new stimuli for most people, and they do not match with the existing experience structure, so they are not well accepted. If a person is immersed in classical music from birth, he will only find classical good.

I don't think we can say that classical music is "better" than other music, because there is no absolute standard for psychological, subjective utility, but we can safely say that classical music is better than most other music that has come out of human history, and that it is more reflective of the human spirit and intelligence.