American Culture: Food, Religion And Film Industry

Analyzing the culture of the USA is a complicated project that requires one to engage in expanded research to learn about the cultural variety in the U.S. The reason for this is that America has not only one perception of a single country but many others with different traditions and customs. This research study will start to address the areas of food, religion, art, and an interview.

Culture is the primary indicator that people are part of civilization, and culture is all things which were achieved by humans through work and talent. Also, culture is those aspects of a group of people that are passed on or learned. Hence, culture is involved and complicated, so there is not a straightforward definition of the meaning of the culture. However, people usually divide the aspects of the culture into many significant areas such as ethnic foods, ethnicity, generation, gender, clothes, language, kinds of music, laws, beliefs, and also education system that is part of a society or shared fellowship. It is described as historically occurring to manage manner and behavior. An individual is born into a culture, but not born with culture. Culture is something that people learn.

A website, about foods, provides a quick snapshot of the top ten traditional dishes of the USA, including some convincing evidence (such as links of other websites). The website has mouthwatering pictures of food, which would help to interest a reader to view the site. These foods are a big part of American culture. American food was influenced by Europeans and Native Americans in its early history. Today, several foods are usually identified as American, such as a hamburger, a pizza, and taco.

I figured out why the great food in the United States the hamburger, is called a hamburger. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, many Germans noticed during their travels to Asia, that the locals would fill their beef between their bread while they would ride, to help soften it for later. The Germans loved the notion of soft aromatic meat, so they took the idea back home with them to Hamburg. Moreover, the time went on, Hamburg Meat quickly became known in the world as hamburger.

A few years later, German immigrants moved to the U.S, and they gave the recipe for Hamburg Meat. The first release of Hamburg meat in the United States was in 1884 when the Boston Evening Journal declared “Hamburg Steak.” It was not long after when people began to appreciate their things. 'Hamburger' was created by Charlie Nagreen, and he explained his “American Hamburger” at the Outagamie County Fair in Seymour, Wisconsin in 1885. His “hamburger,” though was not on a piece of bread and was, of course, without cheese or bacon. Most significant things in history take time to develop. The first known hamburger on buns as we know it today took place in St. Louis in the 1904 World Fair.

Unlike the wealthy minority, the Neapolitans required cheap food that could be consumed quickly, and it was Pizza. Pizza-- flatbreads with various toppings, eaten for any meal and sold by street vendors or casual restaurants—met this need. These fresh pizzas consumed by Naples is mediocre featured the tasty garnishes beloved today, such as tomatoes, cheese, oil, anchovies, and garlic.

Moreover, yet, until the 1940s, pizza was not famous in Italy beyond Naples is borders as now. Hence, when immigrants moved to the United States from Naples, they were replicating their pizzas in New York, Trenton, New Haven, Boston, Chicago, and St. Louis. For this reason, the first who began to eat pizza was non-Neapolitans and non-Italians. Thanks to them, the first documented United States pizzeria was G. (for Gennaro) Lombardi is on Spring Street in Manhattan, licensed to sell pizza in 1905. After World War II, when pizza was permitted, it vastly began to know in the United States. No longer seen as an “ethnic” treat, and it was increasingly identified as a portion of fast, fast food. Then, the world has seen this food.

The history of tacos in the US begins around the 1880s. When Mexican immigrants moving from Mexico to Texas and California started to sell their specialty dish know as tacos. Travelers, from other places, were interested in the tastes of fantastic Mexican food. The components that were used grown in the first half of the twentieth century, depending on agricultural and ethnic-origin factors.

The taco, first notice of this food, was published in the form of a newspaper report in 1905. After that, Mexicans had originated migrating to the US to work in the mines and on railroads. Even in the starting, Americans often looked at Mexican food as street food after that people began to buy and eat this ethnic food, which thanks to Mexicans immigrants famous in the world. Also, people have a hypothesis about the taco comes from the fact that the first type of taco was “taco de minero,” which translates to mean miner is tacos.

The Washington Post newspaper shows readers that America has its unique customs of using an age-status word for someone older. However, comparing the USA and Vietnam, in English, the age distinctions are more straightforward — and more sudden because “I” and “you,” is not based on age. Usually, people pay attention to the correct pronoun because they want to confer the appropriate level of respect, especially to someone older. Usadi, a writer of the Washington Post, gives an example, in the newspaper, to readers about asking a female question about her age, can sometimes be rude towards the woman. Some words indicate status which makes people feel more respect from others. As a child, everyone wants to look like an older person and have people around them respect. However, over time, he or she loses interest in wanting to look like an old person. This article accurately shows this situation.

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The United States has nearly every known religion, which was founded based on religious freedom. Christianity is the largest religion, and approximately seventy-one percent of Americans identify as Christians, including such as ways of beliefs in the Christians, Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons. A little more than half of the people are Protestants, Catholic is about twenty-three percent, and Mormon is two percent. What about other religions in America? Buddhists represent the most extensive religious bloc in most states. People, who believe in Islam, are mostly in the Midwest and South in the twenty states. Judaism has most followers after Christianity mainly in the Northeast, and the fifteen States.

Catholicism manages the Northeast, Southwest, and Southern and Baptists have a strong foothold in the South. The Jesus Christ is churches govern Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and pieces of Nevada. Lutheranism has most followers in Minnesota and the Dakotas, and Methodists make their presence felt in parts of West Virginia, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas.

Media production, television, and movies are widely known as the United States as a leader in the world. According to the research of the U.S. Department of Commerce that America comprises one-third of the global media and entertainment industry. The television industry took the main hold in the United States in the early 1950s, since American television programs begin to show around the world. The heart of the movie industry, in America, is Hollywood and California, which mean that every person watches movies of these cities. From the film industry, America earned $31 billion in revenues in 2013 and is expecting more than $771 billion by 2019, according to the U.S Department of Commerce. The American art culture extends beyond movies and television shown — the heart of American art in New York. Also, American music is very diverse with many styles, including rhythm and blues, gospel jazz, country and western, bluegrass, hip hop, and rock ‘n’ roll.

Asanbai and Abdusalim both have lived in the USA since 2008, so they are excellent resources for an essay. I was able to get information from them which can help me to adapt to America quickly. They have many knowledge and experience to share about American culture. They mostly suggested favorite places to visit, favorite foods and aspects of religions.

The emotional costs are incalculable. I have never written an essay where I have so many questions during interviews, where they double- and triple-checked. I know that my countrymen have lived in the United States for many years. A teacher in the Harmony school, Abdusalim and web developer Aiashaka, said that they live difficulty. “We had many problems with financial,” they said, “It feels like the worst kind of weakness.”

My interest in this result is slightly more than journalistic. Growing up abroad, my brothers got many life lessons from life. The first thing during the interview was about their experience; they discussed how they got into the United States. They said that after graduated M.B, from Kyrgyzstan, they decided to get a Ph.D. from America. Abdusalim explains, “Ph.D. cost expensive to us, so we found a legal job I found the high school and began to teach students, and Aishaka became a web developer working to the company.”

Hereafter, they began to suggest places which I need to visit because I am young yet and still a student. “If you visit these places which I suggested you,” Abdusalim said, “you will feel more motivated and will more achieve in your life.” I shocked and want to get answers immediately, so these places were top Universities located in Texas. Abdusalim suggested to me that I need to visit the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University. “After visiting these universities, I will guarantee that you will get your long-term goals,” Aiashaka also added,” Americans love a person who has a long-term goal in the early age, age like yours.” Also, Aishaka responded to my question, “Unlike other developed countries, government support for US universities is quite low.” which meant that this is especially true in case of the private institutions.

Following favorite places, as every person know that America has many types of food, even traditional food from Asia. Hence, my next question was about food. Abdusalim suggested that in the summer break I should to eat New York is, or Chicago is pizza. “These types of pizza so expensive for a student like you, I mean for an international student, but after eating these pizzas, you will feel that you are in America,” Aishaka claimed, “The pizza came from Italy.”

People have many aspects of religion in the world. So, I interested what the main ones in the United States are. Aishaka said that the United States have each element of the religion of the world. “But in the United States, nearly 80% of the population is Christians. That includes Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses, Greek and Russian Orthodox and more.”Abdusalim said, “Just approximately 4.7 percent of Americans practice other religions such as Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism. Sixteen percent of adults are unaffiliated, and that proportion is growing among younger Americans.”

To sum up, the US culture surprised me for many reasons, begging with the history of foods, which is entirely different from what I expected. The pizza, hamburger, and taco which were not American foods, but the US adapted and made these foods famous. Also, I surprised that Christianity, which is one prominent religion, is followers more than other religions by couples of times. Also, The American film industry is a leader in the world by revenues, and I have also visited my fellowmen and learned more about American culture; from an interview, I got that places, which I need to visit, are Top universities of Texas.

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