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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Asian Americans in cinema and television

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Not only did Disney turn to Asia for a global animated feature in 1998, but it chose a traditional Chinese tale of a woman who fought like a man to break stereotypes. Later, in a television ...

skateboarding

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Now a staple in ESPN’s X-Games, skateboarding took off as a fad in the 1960s. As portrayed in the movie Back to the Future (1985), it started with children tinkering with go-carts and roller skates, ...

The Simpsons

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Offbeat cartoonist Matt Groening created this animated half-hour program television series that gained widespread popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the premier offering of the then ...

Methodists

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Evangelical Christian denomination, founded from within the Anglican Church by John Wesley and George Whitefield in the mid-eighteenth century whose largest group of adherents, white and African ...

morning television

Culture; American culture

Even before cable made 24-hour television a national reality network programming adapted to and changed daily cycles. Prime time denoted highly competitive evening hours, while daytime offered a ...

Ukrainian Americans

Culture; American culture

Exact numbers of Ukrainian immigrants in the US are difficult to determine as immigration authorities often used labels such as “CarpathoRussian” or “Galician” to describe Ukrainians. The official ...

scientific creationism

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Explanation of the origin of the Earth on the basis of Biblical interpretations. In an extreme form, adapting fundamentalist interpretations that life was created by divine action 10,000 years ago; a ...