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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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westerns of film
Culture; American culture
Westerns, perhaps the most important, recognized and popular genre of Hollywood movies worldwide, are as old as narrative film itself. Many scholars consider The Great Train Robbery (1903) to be the ...
Nielsen Ratings
Culture; American culture
The major television rating system in the US, used by advertisers and broadcasters to determine the value of advertising time, based on how many people and what demographics say they watch particular ...
intellectuals/culture wars
Culture; American culture
The culture wars at the beginning of the twenty-first century have their roots in earlier conflicts within the intellectual elite. These, in turn, are framed by a wider tradition of populist ...
Internet
Culture; American culture
The Internet is presented by the highest government authority as “a global matrix of interconnected computer networks using the Internet Protocol (IP) to communicate with each other” that ...
SoHo
Culture; American culture
This lower Manhattan area is located SOuth of HOuston Street and was in the early 1900s an area of cast-iron factory buildings. In the 1960s and 1970s, after many factory closures, the artists ...
Christian media
Culture; American culture
The mere title “Christian media” raises an awkward question—are there non-Christian or atheist media in the US? Certainly statements about God and Christian values in the news, sports, contests, and ...
barbeque (barbecue, Bar-B-Q)
Culture; American culture
Traditionally seen as originating in the Carolinas, and considered a cultural tradition throughout the South, a barbeque is an open-air feast of meat roasted in a red sauce over open coals, served ...
