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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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neo-Expressionism
Culture; American culture
If neo-Expressionism is the term most often used to characterize the re-emergence of figuration in postwar German and Italian painting, in the American context, the term refers more broadly to a ...
sitcoms (situation comedies)
Culture; American culture
If television is “eye candy” a situation comedy (sitcom) is its tastiest morsel. Sitcoms allow viewers to develop long-term relationships with a stable cast of characters, whose conflicts, flaws and ...
hate crimes
Culture; American culture
Criminal offenses committed by someone because of the actual or perceived group characteristics of another person such as race or ethnicity. Over the past two decades, these crimes of discrimination ...
Santería
Culture; American culture
Cuban Santería (the way of the saints) is a complex religion which combines the rituals and beliefs of the Yoruba people from Nigeria with corresponding Roman Catholic saints, which slaves were ...
Christian Right
Culture; American culture
Debates among Republican presidential hopefuls in the 2000 campaign again highlighted the presence of organized conservative Christians as both lobbyists and voters in American governance. The ...
yard sales/flea markets/ consignments
Culture; American culture
Decades of accumulation in many American households have outstripped social channels of disposal—giving away, handing down and throwing away. Life cycles—growing up, moving out, divorce, or the move ...
deindustrialization
Culture; American culture
Deindustrialization refers to the long-term economic and political shift whereby the United States has been steadily transformed from a manufacturing economy into a service economy Where once ...
