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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Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Culture; American culture

Nicknamed “Star Wars” by its critics, SDI was first presented by President Reagan in 1983 as a system to defend against a nuclear missile attack. Influenced by Edward Teller, a scientist involved in ...

Los Angeles, CA

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No other city except perhaps New York City, NY, captures and reflects American imagination like Los Angeles. What began as an unpopulated, ecologically rich, mountainous and coastal land straddling ...

foundations

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Non-governmental and non-profit funds, usually from a single source and administered by trustees for various social and cultural purposes, represent a vital feature of American postwar society ...

American Film Institute

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Non-profit foundation for film established in Washington, DC in 1967 under the aegis of President Lyndon Johnson’s support of the National Endowment for the Arts. Its mission is to preserve and ...

heterosexuality

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Normative sexual practice in the United States, entailing sexual and other relations between those gendered as male and those gendered as female, usually in dyadic couples. Reinforced by media images ...

Inuits and Aleuts (Eskimos)

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Northern Aboriginal peoples whose homelands stretched from Greenland to Siberia. In 1990, nearly 55,000 lived in Alaska, with others settled in the continental US. Their traditional social and ...

home

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Not only America’s middle and upper classes, but also its working classes have constituted a nation of home-owners for generations. Whether suburban ranch houses, urban row houses or, more recently ...