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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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botánicas
Culture; American culture
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the United States experienced a surge of immigration from Afro-Spanish Caribbean communities such as Cuba and Puerto Rico. Within these newly formed immigrant ...
theater
Culture; American culture
During the latter half of the twentieth century, following the advent and rise of first film and then television, live theater in the United States scrambled to find a niche in American culture. ...
Bosnia and Kosovo
Culture; American culture
During the second half of the 1980s, Yugoslavia’s ethnically and religiously diverse republics—Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia—started to push for greater autonomy In response, ...
states and government
Culture; American culture
Each of the fifty states of the United States has its own government. These governments are very similar to the national government in form, each having its own executive (headed by a governor), its ...
Tupperware
Culture; American culture
Earl Tupper’s refined plastics, used in Second World War gas masks, created a classic American brand among postwar families who relied on its airtight storage containers for food storage between ...
rivers
Culture; American culture
Early settlers in America clung to rivers to find safe ports, sustain settlements and then open up the continental heartland. Rivers have provided lifelines for trade and agriculture and power for ...
ecofeminism
Culture; American culture
Ecofeminism is a variant of social ecology, combining the goals of the environmental movement with those of the women’s movement. Ecofeminism posits a close connection between nature and women as ...
