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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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Generation X
Culture; American culture
Widely known to be a term coined by Douglas Copeland’s 1991 book Generation X, the term carries cultural meanings and targets a market. Generation X generally refers to people who grew up after the ...
war
Culture; American culture
The United States Constitution grants the power to declare war to Congress (Article 1: Section 8; clause 11) and given this definition, the United States has not been to war since the Second World ...
school prayer
Culture; American culture
Upholding the constitutional separation of church and state, the US Supreme Court in 1963 interpreted the 1st Amendment and the Bill of Rights to mean that children should not be subject in public ...
multinationals
Culture; American culture
The traditional multinational corporation was controlled from its world headquarters (often in the US). Firm-wide policy dictated the responsibilities of its foreign subsidiaries. The subsidiaries ...
Afrocentrism
Culture; American culture
This is the reorientation of history and cultural studies to situate the origins of African American identity (and other cultural features) in Africa in opposition to “Eurocentrism.” Although ...
air-traffic controllers’ strike
Culture; American culture
Testing the limits of deregulation and a new presidency, 14,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ Organization struck on August 3, 1981 for higher wages, despite provisos to ...
weddings
Culture; American culture
Weddings in the United States constitute a $33 billion unregulated industry annually where the average wedding budget for the late 1990s was estimated at 120,000. Approximately 2.5 million couples ...
