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Letter "A" » American culture
«Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.»
«As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.»
«If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.»
«Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying, while those that show the body in pleasure act like poison»
«A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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Keywords:
academe,
American culture,
American Life,
fantasies,
gap,
humanities,
impact,
leftist,
mass media,
professors,
public policy,
The Gap
«Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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Keywords:
American culture,
American Express,
annoyed,
boasting,
braggadocio,
characterize,
characterized,
decades,
dominated,
expresses,
For some,
fragmented,
groups,
irritated,
petulance,
recently,
relations,
so to speak,
superficially,
Two Cultures
«I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture»
«I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.»
«France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.»
Author: Johnny Depp
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Actor)
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Keywords:
amazing,
American,
American culture,
American history,
culture,
disaster,
Europe,
forgotten,
France,
History of Europe,
In America,
Their culture,
The American
«I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video which expresses my feelings about our culture and values and illusions of what many people believe is the American dream -- the perfect life.»
Author: Madonna
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Actress,
Singer)
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Keywords:
American culture,
American Dream,
American Express,
American values,
anti,
expresses,
pro,
The Video,
video,
videos