American culture

American culture

Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.

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San Antonio, TX

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Situated in South Central Texas, San Antonio combines a long Mexican heritage and later immigrants with rapid recent development that has made it one of America’s ten largest cities, passing Dallas ...

Appalachia

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The green hills and broad valleys of the Appalachian Mountains evoke profoundly dichotomous meanings in American life. The largest chain in the East, these mountains often have been portrayed as ...

jazz

Culture; American culture

Style of African American music that started in the South, particularly in New Orleans, around the end of the nineteenth century Syncopated and polyrhythmic, jazz’s early influences can be found in ...

gourmet food

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Since the 1960s, “gourmet” (sometimes “continental”) food has been associated with vague derivatives of classical French cuisine, using cream or wine sauces, expensive ingredients outside the ...

South

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This region includes the former slave-holding states of the Confederacy during the Civil War—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas ...

Bicentennial

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The United States marks its creation to the day when colonial leaders signed the “Declaration of Independence,” a document which outlined the reasons for the thirteen colonies to terminate formally ...

Quakers

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The Religious Society of Friends of the Truth (Quakers) was introduced into the United States by groups of religious mystics arriving from England in the mid-1700s. Centered in New Jersey, North ...