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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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family restaurants
Culture; American culture
Categorized less by their food (generally bland mainstream American) than by their use. Family restaurants tolerate and promote the presence and activities of children with special treats, spaces, ...
CB radio (citizens’ band radio)
Culture; American culture
CB radio is a set of forty audio channels set aside by the Federal Communications Commission so that individuals may broadcast short messages to listeners over a range of a few miles. No license is ...
American (census category)
Culture; American culture
Census category first used in 1980 when census takers began to inquire about the ancestry of the US population. In previous years, questionnaires had asked merely for the respondent’s birthplace. ...
Main Street
Culture; American culture
Center for commercial, communal, civic and ceremonial space in nineteenth and early twentieth-century small-town America. Although Sinclair Lewis’ unflattering depiction of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota ...
rowing
Culture; American culture
Central to many colleges and universities’ sports programs since the nineteenth century, especially the Ivy League universities, crew is an expensive sport (racing shells cost as much as $20,000) and ...
children
Culture; American culture
Changes in family life and structure, along with fluctuations in wealth, shaped the context of children’s experience after the Second World War. From 1945 to the early 1970s, American families grew ...
road movies
Culture; American culture
Characteristically American genre synthesizing the road (the automobile or motorcycle) and a person’s individual quest for meaning and improvement. The road movie has a long heritage in American ...
