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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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syndication
Culture; American culture
Syndication refers to the non-network distribution of shows. There are two main ways to license programs to individual outlets. The first way is with programs that are new and created especially for ...
modernism
Culture; American culture
To understand postwar American modernism one needs to consider the dynamic field of cultural production that preceded the postwar global hegemony of American culture. In fact, the postwar activity ...
bomb shelters
Culture; American culture
Underground rooms of the Cold War which, at times of heightened paranoia like the Cuban missile crisis, families constructed and stocked to allow them to survive imminent nuclear holocaust, extending ...
Korean Americans
Culture; American culture
There was little immigration from Korea before the Korean War (1950–3), but numbers increased with the arrival of military wives and adopted orphans. Between new immigration laws in 1965 and 1990, ...
child abuse
Culture; American culture
Though child abuse has always existed, it was not until the 1960s that it became the subject of widespread public concern in the US. Drawing attention to the “Battered Child Syndrome,” medical ...
bicycles
Culture; American culture
When Lance Armstrong won the Your de France with the US Postal Service team in 1999 and 2000, American media focused on the personal odds he had overcome in beating cancer. For most Americans, ...
IBM
Culture; American culture
The International Business Machine corporation (also known as “Big Blue” in Richard Delamarter’s 1986 expose), founded by Thomas J. Watson, long dominated the computer industry in the US. Watson had ...
