Negative Effects Of American Culture

Since its inhabitance, competition and dominance has been a concept that remains prevalent throughout American life. Past ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, Cultural Imperialism, and Ethnocentrism are all practices and beliefs comprising what it means to be American for many citizens, while also continually shaping outside perception of Americans today. On one hand, many countries have and continue to fully embrace American culture, globalization, and the rise of capitalism. In contrast, many countries have and continue to reject America’s stride for world assimilation regarding their ideals and values.

Although Mexican Americans have struggled with various segregation acts and racial discrimination while adapting to the American lifestyle, many achieved the American Dream by countless job opportunities provided by America 's industrial and agricultural sectors.

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

The issue of American culture and its globalization has raised a lot of controversy. “The era of globalization” is becoming the preferred term to describe the current times. The term Americanization has been around for years. It was first used when the United States was being heavily immigrated into. The new Americans began to enjoy the freedoms associate with our country and gradually began to act less like a foreigner and more like a real American.

Many things were unusual in the 1800s for example: Women didn't have the same rights as men*, black men and women were either mistreated slaves or free people but living in a discriminated society*, Indians were forced to move out of their own lands*, or the fact that immigrants were not welcomed by people of the pure American society*. Many of these things are negative effects influenced in the 1800s.

In contemporary American society Arab Americans are perceived as Muslim immigrants whose intentions are tied to terrorist groups, when in fact 35% of Muslim Americans are native born here in America, (Moule, 2012, p. 315). In addition, 60% convert to Islam later in life and only 40% are born Muslim, (Moule, 2012, p. 315). The misconstrued view of Arab and Muslim Americans began in part with the tragedy on September 11, 2001 when the Twin Towers collapsed. Following this event the media exploited the Islamic culture and anyone tied to it. Tragedy continued with the Iraq War in 2003, a civil war that continues to plague the country and its borders.

“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts”-James Madison

As the sky mimics the bleakness of ash and the life below it reflects the same somber manner, the air reeks of agony, angst, and anguish. Throughout the town, people wear solemn expressions on their faces as they see their loved ones slaughtered —day after day. They are enduring a nightmare with the fear of being accused of witchcraft. They are living during the corrupt time of the Salem witch trials. Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s oil painting “The Witch Hill,” which typifies the mood described above, depicts a young woman being escorted to her execution because she has been accused of witchcraft. Looking at this work, it becomes clear that this alleged witch is a regular woman with a regular life. Her soft eyes suggest that she is innocent.

While many Americans may not really think about their native culture, it does exist (as the “mom and apple pie” stereotype demonstrates.) Like most world cultures, it arose from myriad factors, not the least of which is its immigrant history. Many of the foods and customs that we take for granted as part of the American tradition actually got their start elsewhere. Here’s a look at four different ways immigrants have influenced American culture.

We believe that the people of America should be more concerned about the negative impacts in the changes of Earth’s Environment/Human Activity. The positive impacts mostly just benefit us as a society (money, economy, etc.). The negative impacts actually, not only hurt us, but our entire Earth as well. Including other living organisms. While it may not seem like it, what we’re doing now is actually going to hurt us in the future. There’s no point in doing something now to help us currently when later it is going to come back and put us in BIG trouble.

Before the atomic age occurred, America perceived nuclear power as a revolutionary new energy sources making fantasies about science-fiction like machinery within reach. Unfortunately, technologies operated by nuclear power resulted in failure. When the nation entered an arms race with the Soviet Union, known as the Cold War, nuclear power received a more sinister agenda, the creation of the atomic bomb. It become more of a representation of panic and anxiety than one of hope and technological advancement, as originally intended. Popular culture outlets, such as comics, films and novels, dramatize the suffering experienced by American people in connection with the weapon, as well as, the repercussions surrounding the atomic age.

Additionally, on page 104 of our textbook, it states that Arab Americans “believe in a more collectivist orientation” (Manning 104). Individuals tend to take care of themselves. The Arab culture is also male dominated and majority of Arabs are Muslims. Arab-American students could explain to their classmates their traditions or customs. They could explain their restricted diets or women who wear Hijabs, could explain the significance of them.

A. What topic did the movie take an in depth look at? This movie takes a deep look at sex, specifically underage sex in the U.S. The movie portrays the adverse affects of sex on young people. James Houston states, "70 percent of American teens have had sex...”

I think that they reason that we as American are not doing this is because we are stuck in the way that we have always done this. America culture has been building and developing for years and it going to be hard to change. We have an idea of how a family is supposes to be like and we have based our policy around that. It hard for American to change something that they have been accustom to their whole life. I believe that America has not progress that far yet to where we can have rules like that. It also has never been the main talk in America society. It seems that American do not place a lot of value and attention on this topic and seem to focus on other thing like the economy. It seems that every time we approach the topic of single mother

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.