Analysis Of American Culture

An analysis about American culture in the contemporary era

Culture is defined as a configuration of learned behaviors and results of behavior whose component elements are shared and transmitted by the members of a particular society(Linton, R. 1945). American culture is obviously typical culture model widely transmitted internationally in the contemporary era. Thanks to aborigines in American Continent and the large number of migrants from worldwide, American culture presents the characteristics of diversity and tolerance which deeply affected and shaped by native American culture, European culture and African culture. Culture itself is an abstract concept embodied by language, architecture, poems, rituals, music, arts and religions. In this

Notably the GDP of America has kept the world top one from the end of the 19th century until now, and it was since then that American culture boosted and spread to the world. R. Mcneill and W. Mcneil argued the United Sates emerged from World War 2 as the first global superpower.The rise of the United Sates to economic and military preeminence after 1945 made globalization often appear as Americanization. As a common phenomenon nowadays, one label of Americanization is the popularity of American English. Even if the British English is believed to be traditional, standard, and elegant English, it cannot prevent people from learning American English keenly. In Hong Kong, a city known for its British colonial past, growing number of children are learning to speak English like Americans. More and more parents, especially those from the Mainland think it is more relevant than any other accents including the Queen’s English. Apart from language, movies made by Hollywood, as typical American popular culture, are particularly attractive to young generation. In history, Chinese culture based on Chinese Empire was once the core of East Asia culture circle, whose writing system, etiquette were extensively learned by Korea, Japan and Annan; the Arabic Empire diffused its culture as far as North Africa and Southern Spain in its golden age. In the contemporary era,

In spite of that, one dominant culture will definitely threaten other weaker culture. American culture on the other hand will shock local culture and destroy it to a certain extent, especially the local dialects and customs. The young in some countries taking more serious on Christmas , Thanksgiving Day, Valentina Day rather than their traditional festivals is obviously one negative and arrestee signal. To reserve the local culture, it is better to treat American culture in a rational attitude, that is, reject the dross and assimilate the