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Article: American 'culture'-and its influence.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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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.
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