Is there an "American culture?"?
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What a great question. Yes there is an American Culture.
You believe deep down in the First Amendment, guaranteed by the government and perhaps by God.
You're familiar with David Letterman, Mary Tyler Moore, Saturday Night Live, Bewitched, the Flintstones, Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby, Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Donald Duck, the Fonz, Archie Bunker, Star Trek, the Honeymooners, the Addams Family, the Three Stooges, and Beetle Bailey.
You know how baseball, basketball, and American football are played. If you're male, you can argue intricate points about their rules. On the other hand (and unless you're under about 20), you don't care that much for soccer.
You'd count yourself fortunate to get three weeks of vacation a year.
Mustard comes in jars. Shaving cream comes in cans. Milk comes in plastic jugs or cardboard boxes, and occasionally in bottles.
The date comes second: 11/22/63. (And you know what happened on that date.)
The decimal point is a dot. Certainly not a comma.
A billion is a thousand times a million.
World War II was a just war, and (granted all the suffering of course) ended all right. It was a time when the country came together and did what was right. And instead of insisting on vengeance, the US very generously rebuilt Europe instead, with the Marshall Plan.
You expect marriages to be made for love, not arranged by third parties. Getting married by a judge is an option, but not a requirement; most marriages happen in church. You have a best man and a maid or matron of honor at the wedding-- a friend or a sibling. And, naturally, a man gets only one wife at a time.
If a man has sex with another man, he's a homosexual.
Once you're introduced to someone (well, besides the President ), you can call them by their first name.
If you're a woman, you don't go to the beach topless.
A hotel room has a private bath.
You seriously expect to be able to transact business, or deal with the government, without paying bribes.
If a politican has been cheating on his wife, you would question his ability to govern.
Just about any store will take your credit card.
A company can fire just about anybody it wants, unless it discriminates by doing so.
You like your bacon crisp (unless it's Canadian bacon, of course).
Labor Day is in the fall.
Yes
Enjoy reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cultural_hi...
Yes
Get rid of PC and Multi-cultural causing divisions among us.
We are all Americans. not hyphenated Americans.
Assimilation is essential and needs to be stressed for this great country to remain great!
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8 to 5 black VS white ... the culture of contradictions.
There was an American Culture. A very good one.
Now lets all say it together now.
Adios
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MyTend.com is a product of our ever changing culture. It morphs with each generation with our older customs always under attack. (Christmas , Easter etc.) It makes for a common ground for the rich and poor to relate. We can preserve it by always remembering and respecting our elders.
yes whatever you make of it
American culture is derived from other cultures and melded into a strata that makes up "American" culture, over time this changes as ther influx of new Americans will add to the mix and thus redefine what is American Culture, 100 years from now it will be different as we know it. Change is always inevitable.
I believe American culture is very much in its infancy; after all, we are a VERY young countery, and we have a lot of learning and developing to do. I do think some parts have begun to coalesce, especially in musical forms such as jazz.
As to preserving it - I think that the parts of it that are important will survive without any special help, as do all important cultural aspects of any society. If they have to be helped along very much, then it seems to me that it's not really worth preserving.
yes
There used to be. We were proud to be Americans, we were law abiding, for the most part, we taught our children values morally and financialy, we loved our children and didn't abandon them, we fed our families and encouraged them to be productive not welfare people, we limited television and sexual exposure, we voted and we even said prayers in school, not to mention the pledge of alligiance. It's the decline of the American family that has caused a great deal of this crap and also the need of two incomes to pay for our lives. And yes, it is worth preserving but the way it stands now, teen pregnancy, drugs, thieves, murderers, etc. are getting all of the attention. Maybe we should all become Amish and leave technology and all of the advances we've made behind. It's so far gone now, I don't know if we could accomplish the change or not. I'd surely be open to suggestion. I openly admit that I'm not smart enough to have a plan to implement that change.
As far as what I see, "American culture" is just the stars and stripes, red white and blue, freedom, uncle Sam, and other things of that nature. If theres more to it than that, I am unaware.
There are various traditions, and/or customs that are "American", but when I look at some other country's such as China, or various African country's, or Ireland, or wherever, many countries seem to have much more obvious and collective cultural differences. In that you can describe them with out reference to other countries. I would be interested to hear how other countries would describe our culture.
It may sound ignorant, but no there is no American culture. Its everyone elses culture blended in the same place. All the food that is available, comes from various places in the world. India, Africa, China, Italy, Germany etc.
Same goes for the dances. Theres not really any cultural clothing.
Why yes!
The Culture of the United States is a Western culture, and has been developing since long before the United States became a country. Today the United States is a diverse and multi-cultural nation.
Its chief early influence was British culture, due to colonial ties with the British that spread the English language, legal system and other cultural inheritances. Other important influences came from other parts of Europe, especially countries from which large numbers immigrated such as Ireland, Germany, Poland, and Italy; the Native American peoples; Africa, especially the western part, from which came the ancestors of most African Americans; and young groups of immigrants. American culture also has shared influence on the cultures of its neighbors in the New World.
The United States has traditionally been known as a melting pot, but a better analogy of it tends towards cultural diversity, pluralism and the image of a "salad bowl "rather than a melting pot.
And don't forget about the indigenous Native American culture - they were here first!
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