Definting American culture
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What material and/or nonmaterial elements would you hypothesize most characteristically define American culture? Why? Explain and defend your rationale.
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A description of how today's American society is defined by materialistic and non-materialistic goods.
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The question is asking the following: what material goods or nonmaterial goods define what today's culture is like. Things of things are prevalent in today's culture and what the material or non-material goods are. Also explain why the culture is the way they are.
For example - many teenagers in society today lack social skills - why is that - they are consumed with material and electronic goods - cell phones that they use text messaging on rather than phone calls; computers where they instant message and use slang words and abbreviations and we ...
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