Essays on American Culture

McDonald’s is as American as you can get, or so I thought. Eating burgers and having fireworks for the 4th of July. that is what is thought of us by the world, but of course being American is much bigger than just eating donuts and...

The word value has many meanings firstly it means the worth of something that can be traded with an amount of money, but it could also mean morals, and a person’s principles and their standards. Values have to do a lot with ethics since they...

South Park is known to be one of the biggest comedic reflections of American pop culture. The show, since its release back in 1997, has pushed limits with various categories in American society over the years. The writers of South Park are extremely attentive of...

Having a culture, as part of one’s life, is very important in the world. A culture can determine who an individual is. There are many of cultures around the world that define who each individual is. A huge way that culture is exposed in the...

 Over the past few decades, the growing popularity of the internet has generated transformations in the economic, social and cultural identities of people. “By 2005, 91% of children had regular access to the Internet and online material, and the online world has brought forth a...

The American culture endeavors to have the full broadness of human articulation, from the composed word, to centerpieces and culture, to records of America’s legacy, to the endeavors and information of science. The American culture is diverse, unprecedented mixture, initiated by the quick European triumph...

Native American culture and society are quite different and many are unfamiliar with it. Native Americans are the native people of the North, Central, and South America. There are many types of Native Americans such as Arikara, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Cree, Choctaw, Comanche,...

The influence of American culture and practices in Australia was widely displayed through music/radio, cinemas and the television throughout the 20th century. As WW2 ended, America emerged as a global economic power and was an inspiration for countries such as Australia where the war had...

The most significant event in America during our time frame of 1860-1900 is the Civil War, and thankfully everybody should already know at least the gist of the defining moment. Most of us know what happened, why it happened, and the general outcome of it...

Chinatown in New York was first established in about 1870s which is a “Home” for large numbers of Chinese immigrants to gather and live together in the United States. Thus, Chinatown can be seen as the historic product of Chinese immigration. With the development of...

I was born in Iraq and lived there for thirteen years. I immigrated to America in 2014. There have been changes in my life since I came to the United State. From my experience, I have found some major differences between living in the United...

The writer of this poem Francisco Xavier Alarcon is a Chicano poet who was born in the year 1954 February 21. When growing up he was caught up in cultural conflicts where he at times lived with his parents in Los Angeles and at other...

INTRODUCTION According to American Marketing Association (AMA): ‘Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that delivers value for customers, clients, partners, and societies at large’. Along with the development of information technology, marketers face new challenges....

High-context cultures like China tend to be collectivistic with large interpersonal relationships that likely have a social hierarchy, and information is normally verbally unsaid, where messages instead have deep meanings. Low-context cultures like the USA tend to be individualistic with little interaction between people and...

This essay is going to cover how the American television show How to Get Away with Murder, HTGAWM, implements to an extent the idea of colour-blind ideology. It will also examine the show in relation to colour-blind ideology through the stories plot and racial changes...

Cultural Appropriation, by some it’s seen as an adoption culture being stolen away from a dominant group. Mostly, people view cultural appropriation as simply the adoption of some particular cultural aspects of another culture. Cultural appropriation is starting to become more evident in everyday life...

The country has a population of 325 million people. According to the U. S census bureau a child is born every eight second. Due to the population and how well America has done in different points of history it has become an very wealthy country....

I love Thanksgiving. I like the eating part, don’t get me wrong. But I love the preparing part. For the past couple years, I’ve missed it though. As a chaplain, I worked on Thanksgiving, strolling floor to floor blessing and sharing meals with nurses and...

The documentation of hidden history is important because it allows us to understand our past, which in turn allows us to understand our present. When we want to know how and why our world is like it is. Proper documentation of history allows us to...

Cleveland is a three centuries old, second-most-populous (2.5 million) city in the state of U.S. Ohio that came into existence back in the year 1796. It’s located at the helm of Cuyahoga River where it connects with the Lake Erie (one of the five Great...

Cultural divides are difficult to overcome in storytelling, because readers must both re-orient their largest cultural assumptions and understand the ideas of specific, unique characters. However, in The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan effectively makes much of Chinese culture comprehensible to American readers. In describing...

The United States of America vs. The Philippines Thesis: How does the culture in the United States of America compare with that of the The Unites States government is bicameral legislature consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate; there is a separation state...

Dreamcatchers today come in a variety of different sizes and styles. They usually consist of a small wooden hoop covered with a net or web of natural fibres, with meaningful sacred items like feathers and beads attached, hanging down from the bottom of the hoop....