The Importance Of American Culture

The United States being the third largest country in the world, is one of the most culturally diverse countries. Every region of the world has influenced American culture, because American is a country that has many immigrants. But that doesn’t mean that Americans don’t have their own culture. There are many culture and traditions that began in, and by Americans; they have simply been passed on to other countries, just like Americans have taking many culture traditions from other countries. For example, Independence Day, the 4th of July. This celebrations goes back to the 18th century and the American Revolution. Only one other country that did celebrate this holiday, was the Philippines. The Philippines did celebrate this holiday but, only

What is the first thing most Americans do when they wake up in the morning, when they get out of their car, or when they are done with school or work? They check their cell phones for updates. Currently media ,technology and their roles with communication have a strong hold over our everyday lives. We search for answers in the media and our tech, looking to form questions to get answers and learn to about how the world is affecting us personally. Through tech we decide what places we are going to go, our political opinions, what’s in style, and many other things that we seem to think is important . Mass media has developed dramatically over the last 100 years, and each change has influenced American’s culture in someway or another. This paper

Charles, I agree that the study of different cultures is quite engaging. Since I spent a total of four weeks in Tampico, Mexico as a teenager, I was able to see a drastic change from the American lifestyle I was accustomed to. First of all, there is no sanitation system such as we have that transports all trash to a dump site, which resulted in a rather unpleasant smell. Second, if an American woman spoke to a random Hispanic male it was considered flirting because the mindset of the Hispanic culture is that American women are promiscuous just as seen in American movies. Although I am a southern bell who greets everyone with a smile and kind word, I had to refrain from these actions while I was there in order to secure my safety. Lastly,

Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck advocate that cultures mature into different states depending on their value orientations. These orientations involve human’s relationships with nature, time, motive, human behavior, and other humans. Most cultures develop by putting their value into some aspects of these orientations over others. An example, Americans put value into nature and their relation to God. When only comparing the world’s industrialized nations, America is known for having a higher percentage of citizens that believe in God. Thus, this illustrates how America has been shaped by this orientation.

There are many factors that ensure the centrality of European culture and institutions. Many of these factors are still visible in modern day and have been adapted from European ideologies. The factors that maintain a Eurocentric ideology are: language, religion, education politics/officeholding and participation in the economy. These components all have been influenced by European principles and have been maintained since their establishment. Language is a big part of any culture and even though the United States does not have an “official” language, the English language is very dominant and has great influence from English colonists. There are many groups that are dedicated to establish English as the official language, however, this causes

The culture that I best identify as is the American culture. The aspects of this culture that shaped my personality is the music, growing up listening to modernized genres of Rap hip-hop, pop, and soft rock music. Another aspect that shapes my personality is food I eat from my culture. Being an African-American, my cultural foods that I grew up eating was known as ‘soul food’, which included: cornbread, black eye peas, sweet potatoes, collard greens, and fried chicken. In addition, the banal foods within my cultural society also contributed to my personality, such as, pizza, hamburgers, hotdogs, and other common foods. In addition, my cultural religion also contributes to my society, I grew up in a Christianity background where my grandmother would constantly read and teach me the bible and its lawful commandments to abide by. This aspect significantly shaped my personality.

When you hear the words American Culture what to do tend to think about? When I hear the words American Culture I tend to think about society, and how it has influenced my life. Society itself is influenced by the people and the culture within it. When actors or actresses dress differently or try something new, other people will do the same thing. When you have a culture that heavily populates an area, that culture will be heavenly influenced in that area. There may be restaurants or stores that will carry the cultures products. Therefore, Americans do not realize that American Culture impacts them every day. When they go shopping for new clothes at the store that a friend posted about on their Snapchat and when they decided to try something new to eat at a new restaurant they found on Yelp. These are just a few of the ways that American culture impacts Americans but, there are three things that impact American Culture the most. Pop Culture, Technology, and Family Constructs. I believe these topics highlight American Culture.

My topic of interest is regarding how have Hispanics began to enter American Society and how have they assimilated or integrated to become part of it? Hispanics are a minority group who have overcome many struggles and stereotypes throughout history. It is important to know how it all started and how they managed to become such a huge part of todays society. Hispanics Americans constitute more than 15% of the U.S population, and the number is still growing. It is the country’s largest ethnic minority group.

They say that the United States of America is “The Great Melting Pot,” a place where no matter what their culture or country of origin they are accepted. Contrary to common belief, America in actuality is not a melting pot in fact, America is more like a huge salad bowl. This implies that even after coming into this country you hold on to your culture. You don’t take on the characteristics of the new culture or society; it is a mixture of a lot of different thing but you can still tell the apart in the salad. It is composed by many different people from almost every place around the world. For example, many ingredients create one dish as many Americans create the United States. British being one of this country many influences, England has had a huge impact on the states. Without Britain’s influence we wouldn’t

If I couldn't see the blending of cultures like we have here in America, our lives would be boring and we wouldn't have the quality of life as we have today. Although we think we are Americans, our deepest ancestors might have come from completely different countries. One example of a way I think our lives would be more boring is in food. Would you like to eat hamburgers and hot dogs and fries every single day? I don't think so. Here in America we have so many different kinds of food. We have Italian restaurants, Mexican restaurants, Chinese restaurants and I even saw a free sample at Costco once which was Afghan food! Besides, eating a variety of different kinds of food is much healthier than eating only hamburgers, hot dogs and fries. We have to appreciate that we live in a country like America where so many cultures blend together to form the country we have today named America. However I do not think that all I need only happens in society, it can happen in facial expressions too.

Out of 196 countries in the world, America is known to be "the land of the brave, the home of the free". A country that is filled with independence, privileges, pride, and power that is constantly growing everyday. With diverse people seeking for opportunity and freedom, there is no other country that has the same experience. Being one of a kind, humans have traveled across the ocean to come to America. Many had went through adversity to settle in this country because they were determined to start a new chapter in their life in America. America gives people the opportunity to work, opportunity to experience the American culture, and a chance to establish a new beginning.

To become successful one must have the following: a big house, a beautiful spouse, a sports car that is worth more than your house, and kids that are equal to that of Nikola Tesla. Yes these are common defining traits of what the American culture views as “successful” it is not the defining items that make them so. Some say that is the way that people carry themselves, that someone can walk into a room and own it. This trait is seen as either one of two things. Someone who has such an inflated ego that they can’t fathom their situation or someone who knows the ropes and is there to say “I made and so can you.” Under all the heartache and grief of the school year it is hard to say that we are barely capable of a crawl compared to

The culture of America is marked by diversity and is constantly changing as a result of such diversity. The question posed is, “does the recent presidential election indicate a white, racist culture?” The culture of the U.S. has been, from its’ inception, white; our founding fathers were white. It has taken the U.S. hundreds of years with many conflicts along the way, to start to give value to other cultures. Looking back eight years ago to the election then; the approximate percentage of whites in the U.S. was 62.6% (Wikipedia, 2017) and Obama was elected to presidency in 2008 and again in 2012. The ratio of white Americans has not changed substantially and, if anything, has only decreased since then.” In 2012, the Census Bureau announced that

England and America, being the largest melting pots of different cultures in the world, I was exposed and raised to be more open to other lifestyles and traditions. One Thursday evening, the summer before my freshman year, my Mum and Dad broke the news that we were moving to Doha, Qatar in the Middle East due to a job opportunity for my Dad. At the time, I was extremely devastated, but little did I realize that moving halfway across the world would create a lifetime of new experiences for myself.

Culture is very important to individuals, especially for those who reside in the culturally-diverse United States. The United States can be compared to a salad bowl; different cultures and people are involved and tossed together to make one beautiful and delicious salad. People consider culture as a way to celebrate and acknowledge their own traditions and beliefs. It is very easy to keep these traditions when everyone upholds the same respect for them, but, in a world where America is considered as one of the most diverse countries in the world, it is very hard to uphold one absolute culture. While it is a beautiful notion to be so culturally diverse, children of immigrants suffer with identity issues and where they stand as an American. With several stereotypes against first-generation children, such as Asian-Americans being portrayed as the “model minority”, it proves that first-generation Asian-Americans has to go through a lot to determine how they should balance their Asian history and American upbringing. Cultural syncretism is defined as “a concept that refers to the social processes by which the beliefs and practices of two cultures mix and create a new cultural characteristics” (what). This definition is what best describes the experience that Eddie Huang had in his youth. “Fresh off the Boat” is his memoir and a TV show that takes audience back to Eddie’s childhood where he and his family struggles from being the only Asian in a white-dominated community. The