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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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public sector unions
Culture; American culture
Labor organizations of employees who work for government agencies have grown and proliferated since World War II. After 1970, as the private economy shifted its orientation from industrial to ...
Great Lakes
Culture; American culture
Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario, five interconnected freshwater lakes, make up one of the largest surface freshwater reservoirs on Earth. (The polar ice caps and Russia’s Lake ...
US Army
Culture; American culture
Land and air military unit of the American military since the Revolutionary War; its undergraduate institution, the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, was opened in 1802. Despite worries ...
American Sign Language (ASL)
Culture; American culture
Language primarily used by deaf Americans, based on hand shape, location, movement and expression augmented by finger spelling. Adapted from French models in the nineteenth century (and completely ...
MTV
Culture; American culture
Launched in 1981, at a time when the record industry was foundering, MTV (music television) injected new life into the popular music scene by hooking young people on its high-energy diet of music ...
quinceaños
Culture; American culture
Lavish, traditional coming-of-age celebration or a young woman’s fifteenth birthday, practiced in Hispanic countries and Latino diaspora communities. Quinceaños parties in upper-class families are ...
Freedom Summer
Culture; American culture
Led by Bob Moses of SNCC through the Council of Federated Projects (COFO), an umbrella group uniting Mississippi civil-rights organizations, the 1964 Freedom Summer was designed to send white and ...
