American Culture

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“American Culture”
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All the choices we make reveal something about our personality, surrounding and

our upbringing influences these choices. The way we speak, dress, the food we eat, the

music we listen to tells allot about us and how we came to be. Everywhere we look in

America we can see different cultural signs. It’s really amazing how we can tell the

difference between an American person, and a non American just by looking at them; and

between people from different parts of our own country.

I think the most significant cultural sign in modern day America is that this

year in the state of California, there were hundreds of political candidates running for the

governor of California. It illustrates what kind of country we are and that we like

diversity and choice and how in the end decisions will be based on introspection. It shows

that we are capable of levity even in the midst of a serious campaign. It speaks to the

cultural intelligence that is America.

I believe that now in the 21st Century the media is responsible for influencing

much of our culture. We are saturated with television advertisement. During television

commercial brakes we are bombarded with brand new products that are coming out. One

of the reason they do that is because they want people to come and spend money in their

stores.

The three essays illustrated a common perception of American life. The common

theme among them is how we as American’slive to work, and we are always trying to

invent something else and come out with something new. Bill Bryson, in his what’s

cooking essay wrote Walter Scott saw that all the restaurants were closing down at 8

p.m., he decide to load a wagon with sandwiches and park it outside the offices of the

Providence Journal, since he had no competition his business was doing well. Soon after

this lunch wagons began appearing all over....