Americanization: Attitudes Toward American Pop Culture

Popular culture is consumed through interaction in the social media that includes television programs, movie theaters and virtual social networks. From the media, interests lie in the political developments and discussion concerning governance. These media satisfy appetite for political information while guiding an understanding on the national issues and choices made.

Every country around the world loves to follow the American culture, whether if it’s the clothing or music.Most countries that are our allies just deal with it, meanwhile non-allies has a problem with it, like Iran. Iran is located in the middle east and is one of the 3rd world countries that face a lot of problems. Iran was one of America's good friends from 1950’s until the end of the 1970’s. Once a new person came into office, that’s when he said that he didn’t like the Western culture.The new guy in office was a lot more strict about religion so more laws were enforced. The reason why America was just close with Iran because of the good oil they had around and it was one of our good trading allies. America started to notice how much Iran hated them once American culture was not able to be shown in Iran. Iran didn’t and still don’t accept American or Western pop culture because Iran wants to keep their own culture. American Pop culture is more modernized and popular than all of the other cultures in the world; from the clothes to the english language. Who doesn’t want to speak English dressed in H&M ?

The American Century’s first change resulted from U.S. involvement in World War II. The United States was brought out of the Great Depression following this war. The entertainment industry also took off at this time. Movies and new types of music were gaining in popularity. Eventually, the U.S. entered the Cold War. Americans at home were not initially

Of course, when anime first came over to America, it had to be edited to go over well with the popular audience. Television stations would go through and remove excessively violent scenes, alter translations, and even change whole plots just to make the shows more suitable for American audiences, (Ladd & Deneroff, 2009). Of course, it didn’t help that Americans viewed anime in general as children’s cartoons when it wasn’t created to be that way.

Pop culture has always influenced the American way. In fact, there is a saying that politics is downstream from culture. What this means is that laws, policies, and guidelines that the government enforces are all influenced by what is being said and done in pop culture. It may be hard to see this example today, but there were certain parts in time where this idea could be easily seen. One of these eras was the 1960s.

The United States is renowned for its title as a melting pot for a variety of different cultures, and is very unique in the fact of having many different people in one place. The diversity of the beautiful nation that will call home is one of the very aspects that makes America the great nation that it is. The United States, albeit influenced by many different cultures and a vast array of continents, is most influenced by the country of England. The most widely spoken language in the United States is English, and the second most widely spoken language is Spanish. The most prevalent religious denomination is Protestantism with over 51%, then Roman Catholicism at 24%, then Mormonism at 2%, and Jewish at 1.7%. The United States is a very pop culture

From this course in the beginning I expected to learn how American popular culture changed throughout the year. Now that have been in class, I expect to learn why Disneyland real meaning. This one of the concepts I expect to learn because I love Disneyland. I also expect to learn what I can do to change the way popular culture affects certain people. Every since the first day of class I have not stopped talking to my friends on everything we have went over in class because I know that they are not aware of this information.

Television is a persuasive intermediate of mass communication. Today it has been argued that television does an unsubstantial job of portraying race and ethnicity. The current programming and advertising shown on television today, advances one’s ethnocentric view of American culture, and validates many existing racial stereotypes.

Popular culture is a society’s likes and dislikes of that year. America’s tastes are unique and always changing. In the year of 2004 Americas admirations were different from the ones now. Three aspects of popular culture in the year of 2004 were movies, food,and cellphones.

Pop culture is information that keeps a hold of the public interest and is mainly discuss through various mass media outlets, pop culture has to be attracted to the public to get his attention and can use as propaganda at times. Mass media paint a picture of the a few views versus sociology which is for each individual and all views of the problem, a social problem can be different many issues but pop culture we will only advertise what is popular time. Pop culture will more than likely show the viewpoint dad has a hidden agenda to mass produce a certain perspective. Contrasting the sociological views will show others prospectus and reasoning with good research. Using social imagination, linking personal Life and experience with the social

Cultural trends are significant since they relate to the values practice within a society. Nonetheless, we live in a much more connected work, via social media, such as Facebook, Twitter etc. Moreover, we live in a multiplex work.

Chapter 3 in Major Problems with American Popular Culture discusses the meaning and purposes of popular culture in the 19th century American society. The text presents a variety of materials attributed to America popular culture of that time, such as accounts of Fejee Mermaid exposition, extracts from the 19th century Shakespeare's adaptations and the eyewitness testimony of the Astor Place Riot in 1849. Furthermore, the YouTube video sources discuss the concept of imagined community, first suggested by Benedict Anderson. Imagined community is discussed in the light of popular culture, which becomes an alternative instrument of imagining communities with the emergence of different types of media, it being film, theatre, news or internet.

From the beginnings of its first mentioning, back in the late 20th century, the popular culture gained the status of a global mainstream, allowing it to have a greater impact on most of the Western countries. Although it is often used as a term in general, almost every country in the Western culture has its own pop culture that usually dominates only in their country. However, one type of popular culture found ways to dominate, not only in their own territory, but also around the whole globe: American pop culture. (McGaha, 2015) Being one of the first countries to develop pop culture, the US popular culture grew enormously in the last couple of years, and most of all movies. Throughout this brief elaboration, we shall explore some of the characteristics

Anime over the past few decades has decade increasing important in American society. This is important as anime and related products generate over 1/3 of international media revenue (Shirong Lu, 2009). For example, the English release of the Japanese mobile app, Pokémon GO, has gone viral in the United States, with people young and old playing and catching Pokémon. Every year in California, Anime Expo was held bringing over people from all around the world. This year there was overall turnout of over 300,000 people to the convention. Funimation, a leading supplier of anime across North America, has convert several animes since 1994, creating an English version for viewers to enjoy and broadcasting newly release shows. People daily cosplay, designing and creating outfits, dressing as different anime characters and attend different events. Anime has a huge impact today not only in the United States, in the several other countries around the world, converting into over 30 languages (Shirong Lu, 2009). It is important to see how people view race in anime since it has an international audience.

What pops into your mind first when you think of popular culture in today’s day and age? The latest dirt on celebrities or the latest iPhone release? The latest controversial issue or the latest iTunes hit? Regardless, pop culture encompasses all four of these concepts and many more, which consume the world we live in each and every day. Think about education. At first thought, your mind may not make the connection between the newest Taylor Swift song and the highest ACT score, but the linkage between the two becomes undeniable when you dive deeper. Ponder this: each day millions of kids walk into school buildings across the United States, each of them glued to a little slice of pop culture, a.k.a. their phone. And each day these millions