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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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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Culture; American culture
For much of its history the FBI has been linked inextricably in the public mind with its first director, J. Edgar Hoover. Since the 1970s, critics have highlighted many of Hoover’s excesses and ...
late-night television
Culture; American culture
For nearly fifty years, the time slot between the 23:00 local news and station sign-off has been dominated by one format—the live talk show—and one show—NBC’s Tonight Show—under a succession of ...
borderlands
Culture; American culture
For nearly half its distance, the 1,947 kilometer US/Mexico border follows the Rio Grande river from Brownsville/Matamoros to El Paso/Ciudad Juárez, where it becomes a geometric line cutting across ...
novel
Culture; American culture
For that nineteenth-century Anglo-American practitioner, Henry James, the novel was a loose and baggy monster. This genre, literally the new inheritor of the romance tradition and the cultural ...
China
Culture; American culture
For the US, China has been a distant land that may be mysterious, enchanting or threatening. While the US, unlike Europe, occupied no protectorate in China during the late nineteenth and early ...
enemies
Culture; American culture
Foreign policy, domestic discourse and mass media have often coincided in the identification of “acceptable” external American enemies, both vilified and stereotyped, with potentially painful ...
Dallas, TX
Culture; American culture
Formed by conjunctions of railroads, cattle, oil, finance and technology the glassy spires of Dallas rise from the Central Texas plains, surrounded by highways and suburban sprawl. This wealthy city ...
