American Culture

The Culture of America
What is culture anyway? Bacteria grow in it. Anything made by man and depicted on a map is referred to as culture. I think it’s safe to state that people think of the word in terms of past traditions and a desire to maintain them. Some people want to “freeze” a tradition as it existed somewhere in time and often recounted by grandparents while believing it to be something to protect and preserve against all attempts to introduce change. This frequently takes place through legends, song and dance and it’s good that it’s done.
Today’s young students will one day think back on the classroom culture of today’s computer lab and wonder how anything could be accomplished on such primitive machines. So culture changes along with one’s mindset and the march of time. The dictionary defines “culture” as: “the development and refinement of mind, morals or taste. The condition thus produced; refinement. The specific stage in the development of a civi...