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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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commercial and angling fishing
Culture; American culture
Commercial fishing in the United States, as worldwide, has been affected by environmental degradation. The main source of this degradation since the 1970s has been over-fishing by fleets of vessels ...
“Pentagon Papers”
Culture; American culture
Commissioned in 1967 by US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, the “Pentagon Papers” comprise a 3,000-page history of the US in Indochina from the Second World War through May 1968. They ...
Hawai’ian archipelago
Culture; American culture
Commonly distilled into images of an island paradise of sun, surf and hula, the Hawai’ian archipelago in fact consists of 132 islands, atolls and reefs (6,470 square miles), which constitute, ...
in-line skating
Culture; American culture
Commonly referred to as rollerblading after the company created in 1980 by two hockey players in Minnesota who, wanting to train in the off-season, converted an in-line skate to meet their needs. ...
communism
Culture; American culture
Communism has occupied quite diverse and conflicting positions in modern American culture. In the 1930s, during the years of the non-sectarian Popular Front against fascism in the world Communist ...
community
Culture; American culture
Community has a longstanding positive, albeit nebulous, value reiterated in American social sciences as well as political rhetoric. “Community groups,” “community boards” and “faith community” all ...
community organization
Culture; American culture
Community-based organizations have been a distinctive feature of American democratic life since the founding of the Republic, one that Alexis de Tocqueville praised as evidencing Americans’ unique ...
