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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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talk radio
Culture; American culture
Talk radio is a programming format that encompasses a wide range of topics, such as health, finance, religion, politics, community issues and sports. Listener call-in and interview shows enjoy ...
blues
Culture; American culture
The blues is quintessential, twentieth-century American culture. Evolving from African chants and rhythms and the field shouts and gospel choruses of the nineteenth-century plantations of the South, ...
forests and forestry
Culture; American culture
Vast woodlands and towering trees have impressed successive generations of American explorers and pioneers, and have also provided resources for building and fuel for these settlers as they cleared ...
engineering
Culture; American culture
The practice of organizing the design, production and operation of devices, systems, or processes to meet recognized needs. The engineering profession is typically characterized as applied science. ...
Chinese Americans
Culture; American culture
The largest and longest-established Asian American community Chinese numbers in America have also grown rapidly since 1965 through immigration from Taiwan, Hong Kong, overseas Chinese settlements and ...
trains
Culture; American culture
Train stations tell the stories of railroads since the Second World War. Once, they were the temples of nineteenth-century American civic progress. Transcontinental railroads (built by immigrant ...
beauty pageants
Culture; American culture
While perhaps best known through national contests (Miss America, etc) or international pageants like Miss Universe, beauty pageants represent a much more complex system, defining femininity on the ...
