American Culture Influences

1. How can an understanding of the complexities of culture help us make sense of the day-to-day world which we live? Give an example from your life to illustrate your answer.

American Lore is just like any other lore it has myths, legends, and fairy tales, but American lore shows the history of America and how we live today, with a twist to the story. With Legends, myths, and fairy tales it expresses the way americans think and how creative we can be to come up with these stories from things that could actually happen. Legends are based on historical facts Myths are based on religion and gods and goddesses. Fairy Tales are made believe not real, includes special creatures. Tall tales and legends are more based in American lore and is heavily based on history and the many traditional stories that are spread from generation to generation. American lore is based on, “power social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources. Achievement which is a personal success through demonstrating competence according to social standards . Hedonism pleasure or sensuous

I come from a place that is heavily influenced by Mexican and American culture mostly due to living in a border town with Mexico. My mother is more in touch with her Mexican culture, while my dad is more influenced by a Tejano/American culture. They both have been great influencers in the person I am today. Growing up in my house all I spoke was Spanish mostly due to my grandmother only knowing that language, I eventually learned English as I entered school. I remember spending my weekends watching shows and movies like ‘El Chavo del Ocho’, ‘La Nina de la Mochila Azul’, and ‘Rebelde’ or listening to the songs my mom put by Mana, Juan Gabriel, and Vicente Fernandez. I took a liking to school from a young age, I found learning fun and friends

America was hit hard during the Great Depression, it was a time of low income and the overall struggle of the American people. Some industries however happened to use their wisdom and flourished during this time.

The shaping of any culture requires adaptation to their environment and its problems, such as economical, social and geographical, and the learning from these in order for their culture to live by and survive. The Christian Church would prove the most important in shaping a new European religious civilization. In as much as Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam undergirded civilizations in Asia and Africa, Christianity served as the basic unifying force that held together the new European civilization. (Sivers 2015) This process entails having the ability of shaping ones behavior in order to survive and have this same behavior passed onto the following generations.

Throughout the 1960s there was a cultural phenomenon that started in the United States and spread like wildfire to multiple other cultures in the world. This phenomenon was also known as countercultures. This decade raised the 76.4 million Americans born during the baby boom generation. The babies of this boom entered their teen years during the 1960s and they definitely embraced a multitude new standards, dramatically different from the way their parents were raised. While some encompassed new ideals in dress, music and movies others joined countercultures and rebelled against the social norms with poetry, novels and art. Three of the most altering countercultures were the Hippies, the Sexual Revolution and the Gay Liberation.

Technology has a huge influence on the American culture and American society. Over the past couple years technology has made a big impact on everyone's lives, whether they realize it or not. Anywhere you go or anything you do you will come in contact with technology. The Doctors office, The Dentists office, The Grocery store, your workplace, School, Restaurants would all be a completely different place without technology. I think the piece of technology that has the biggest impact on everyone's lives would probably be a computer or a laptop. In my life a laptop has played a big role in my life these past couple of years in school and during my education.

While America was being formed it was influenced by three different cultures, early native Americans, explorers, and imperialist and the colonists. Each of them treasured different things. The native Americans cared more about nature and supernatural things, while colonials cared more about religion and unity.

When Europeans started to travel to the Americas, they had other Intensions in mind; to bring with them the Christian religion. The men that arrived there began to have relations with indigenous women, which lead to a mixing of cultures. Although the European men overpowered the indigenous people, there were some who continued to worship their own beliefs privately (Bentley, Ziegler. Pg 539)

I jumped and hastily removed my earbuds, startled by the man standing inches away. Suddenly he spoke: “Is that Stromae?” I followed his gaze to my phone, where “Ta fête,” a song by Belgian-Rwandan rap sensation Stromae, was playing. The man in front of me, who I learned was a recent immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intimated excitedly that French was his first language. I enthusiastically told him that I had been learning French for six years. Our shared language had broken down the heavy silence.

How does playing games affect the mind? Well in general there is so much to talk about games. From the History of games, to the vast variety of games in America! I mean think about it, you have to have played at least some sort of game, but first I need to not get ahead of myself and first get your more informed on the history of gamin in America! How did games come to America? Good question let us start off from the roots, before games even came to America. Dating back at least 2300 B.C Greeks, Japanese, Chinese and even Romans were know to be playing risk games for amusement. Let us review the sort of games these countries played. Greeks and Romans, they both had some sort of coliseum were they pit people against each other to fight to

The citizen’s life of today is influenced by its history. Nations of America cultures have been shifted diversely every decade. A various of challenge and courage have been developing life qualities and civil rights dramatically. The time which had the biggest change was after middle of 19th century. In 1960’s, counterculture placed in a big part of American society.

Music has been around for a very long time, 55,000 years to be exact. All different types of music, and all different types of artists have existed. For this essay, I am going to research about how music has impacted our culture. I will be specifically writing about the influence of music on American culture. Pop culture has always been a big influence and is still a huge part of today’s world.

American culture has always baffled me even though I grew up here. I never understood why somebody wants to lay around all day watching other guys play sports on TV or pore all their time and money into materialistic things like cars but not put the same kind of effort for their own bodies. Now add in nutritionally uneducated dual working parents who would rather what little time they have watching the sports channel or Dancing with the Stars then getting educated about their diet, our children are doomed.

American culture refers to the traditions and practices of the people of the United States. Culture comprises of the nature of buildings, religion, music language and marriage. The population of the United States is more than 320 million people making it the most culturally diverse country in the globe. Books such as Crabgrass Frontier, Manifest Destination and Muscular Christianity are important sources of information about American culture. This paper is a reflection on the methods that these books use in providing information about the evolution of the US culture. The paper examines the relationship between these three sources and ways they challenge or inform an understanding of the American society during the late 19th and early 20th century. There is an analysis of the efficiency of the issues tackled by these books in influencing the contemporary discourse surrounding American culture. The major argument of this paper is that Crabgrass Frontier, Manifest Destination and Muscular Christianity provide reliable information about the evolution of the US culture and they supplement each other through the use of relevant examples.