American 'culture'-and its influence.

Contemporary Review | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

IT is patronizing to refer to contemporary American culture as somehow a doubtful entity, but perhaps the problem is the word 'culture' itself. Would 'mindset' do better? Maybe. However, we will stick with 'culture', identifying some salient aspects of it in today's US, which for good and/or ill, seem to exert great influence in the wider world.

American 'culture' has been inextricably bound up this election year with the searing, super-reported Obama-Clinton fight for the Democratic nomination, followed by Obama's increasingly bitter joust with Sen. McCain. One ...

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