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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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political correctness
Culture; American culture
Seemingly innocent phrase used by conservatives and others to denigrate multicultural efforts and sensitivities. The phrase evokes insincerity and empty rules, rather than new, complex worlds of ...
segregation
Culture; American culture
Segregation, which kept blacks and whites separate in their social relations, developed in the aftermath of Reconstruction as a system of race control and oppression. Its constitutionality was ...
Alcoholics Anonymous
Culture; American culture
Self-help group to combat alcohol addiction through a twelve-step program to quit and stay dry. Founded by Bill Wilson and Doctor Bob Smith in 1935, it has become a worldwide fellowship and model for ...
Ivy League
Culture; American culture
Seven Eastern universities—Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Yale (New Haven, Connecticut), Princeton (Princeton, New Jersey), Dartmouth (Hanover, New Hampshire), Brown (Providence, Rhode Island), ...
folk art
Culture; American culture
Several distinctions should be made between folk art and the more familiar high art, the art of the masters and of most museums. In contrast to the materials, practices and intentions of high art, ...
Hungarian Americans
Culture; American culture
Several hundred thousand Hungarians migrated to the US during the years 1880–1914, mostly landless young men seeking work. A substantial number, possibly as many as one-half, later returned to ...
GI Bill of Rights
Culture; American culture
Signed into law in June 1944, the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, better known as the GI Bill of Rights, offered education and home-loan benefits to Second World War veterans. The program helped to ...
