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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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cable television
Culture; American culture
Cable was first used in 1948 to send television signals through wire to remote mountainous parts of the United States. Over the decades, the cable television industry has changed from a delivery ...
San Francisco, CA
Culture; American culture
California is a state of mind as much as a geographical area, and San Francisco is a city of dreams as much as it is the actual city by the bay, where seekers can go west no further. San Francisco ...
Brown family
Culture; American culture
Californian Democratic political dynasty. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown (1905–) became a liberal Democratic governor (1959–67) and party power broker. His son, Jerry Edmund, Jr. (1938–), brought an edgier ...
Spam
Culture; American culture
Canned, processed pork luncheon meat created by Hormel in 1937. It holds an ambivalent place in American cuisine—rejected by some because of associations with institutional food, others have ...
Salt Lake City, UT
Culture; American culture
Capital of Utah and headquarters for the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Mormons founded the city as a well-ordered grid between the mountains and the Great Salt Lake in 1847. While its population ...
capital punishment
Culture; American culture
Capital punishment, or the death penalty is the execution of an individual by the government, either federal or state, as punishment for a crime. Presently thirty-eight states, the federal govern ...
Caribbean Americans
Culture; American culture
Caribbean nations long have endured the influence of the “colossus to the North.” Yet, as ideas, styles and people have traveled north, they have established distinctive communities, complicating ...
