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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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mobile homes and trailer parks
Culture; American culture
The mobile home (trailer or recreational vehicle) would seem successfully to synthesize two great American twentieth-century obsessions: freedom/ mobility and automobiles. Certainly, the emergence of ...
Viagra
Culture; American culture
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer hit the big time with Viagra (sildenafil citrate), finding what it proclaimed to be the cure for erectile dysfunction, a problem which may affect as many as 30 ...
inner city
Culture; American culture
Under various designations, American urban cores long have been centers of interaction, consumption and power. Since the 1960s, the positive “down-town” has overlapped with the problematic inner city ...
five and dimes
Culture; American culture
Typical Main Street emporia, offering cheap notions, cosmetics and gifts—the name referred to the initial prices. F.W. Woolworth (founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1879) later constructed a ...
Virgin Islands
Culture; American culture
The United States purchased more than fifty islands from Denmark for $25 million in 1917. Today these constitute the territory of the US Virgin Islands (as distinct from British holdings), whose ...
think tanks
Culture; American culture
Think tanks have grown in number and flourished as research and educational organizations as US society has become more complex. The educational components of the think tank address two main ...
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Culture; American culture
The world’s premier mental-health research organization, NIMH seeks to improve the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of mental disorders that affect millions of adults, children and adolescents. It ...
