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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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violence
Culture; American culture
Discussions of violence often distinguish between two different dimensions: personal crimes and group violence. The first includes such activities as murder, molestation, robbery rape and assault, ...
drug policy
Culture; American culture
Distinctions between medicinal and nonmedicinal, legal and illegal substances, are the result of a long and continuing debate about the morality of consciousness alteration, the intrinsic dangers of ...
California sound
Culture; American culture
Distinctive “soft” rock music that emerged in the mid-1960s, embodied by bands like The Mamas and the Papas. Influenced by the new folk music of the 1950s and 1960s, their music was harmonyrich with ...
Charleston, South Carolina
Culture; American culture
Downtown Charleston (population 80,414) preserves classic wood-frame houses, elegant churches and streetscapes that remind us of its colonial power in the coastal “Low Country” its connections to the ...
conventions
Culture; American culture
Downtown convention centers became late-twentieth century strategies for cities to promote tourism and consumption. Trade shows, business groups, religious associations and fraternal organizations ...
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Culture; American culture
Dr Ethel Andrus founded AARP in 1958. Now the nation’s largest and oldest organization of older Americans, its membership is over 33 million. A non-profit, nonpartisan organization, AARP is governed ...
anarchism
Culture; American culture
During the early Cold War, the anarchist tradition was kept alive by Dwight Macdonald’s lively journal, politics (1944–9). Avoiding the era’s Manichean politics, Macdonald published independent ...
