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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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Grenada
Culture; American culture
Part of a long-term effort to dislodge communists from the Western Hemisphere, President Reagan’s 1984 invasion of Grenada was ostensibly undertaken to rescue American medical students studying on ...
POW/MIAs (Prisoners of War/ Missing in Action)
Culture; American culture
Part of the lingering nightmare of Vietnam in American consciousness has been the silence and uncertainty about those who were imprisoned and those who did not return. While every global war has ...
home outdoor spaces
Culture; American culture
Pastoral ideals embodied in the stately mansions of Jefferson and Washington created a baronial relationship to the landscape difficult to replicate in mass housing. Yet the cultural ideal of the ...
South Asians
Culture; American culture
People of South-Asian origin living in the United States have emigrated mostly from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. Some scholars of South Asia also include Burma and Tibet ...
performance art
Culture; American culture
Performance art is surprisingly difficult to define. It requires that an artist perform an action over time (even if very brief), either in a public or a private place, with or without an audience ...
drag shows
Culture; American culture
Performances based on cross-dressing, elaborated by celebrity imitations, lip-synching and ironic touches. Both males and females participate (although women’s representations of the other often ...
malls/shopping centers
Culture; American culture
Perhaps no other urbanist innovation of American society in the twentieth century has gained such global interest—and critical opprobrium—as the “mall,” where the automobile, suburbanization and ...
