#american culture

[homofocused]

(which do you use most often, used most often as a kid, most memories, you identify with are all acceptable answers. which highway is THE highway, which one is yours?)

#highways #transit #america #american culture #poll #please answer this i have to know #if you're not from the us do you have a highway #mine is I-40 #im going to blaze this i am very interested in the answer

[queer-frenchmermaid]

I really HATE the censorship on social media because it's now getting in everyday language. I talked about it in another post but in French, you swear all the time and notably to show people you're close and surely we can't be the only ones. I really feel like it's an americanism not to allow people to casually swear so let's check this out.

Feel free to add your 1st language I'm really curious

#french side of tumblr #upthebaguette #france #languages #censorship #american culture #swear words

[initiala]

I said it the other day in a meeting at work and everyone looked at me like I was insane. Please reblog for wider sample size.

#poll #corn #it’s corn! #american culture

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I sometimes wonder about American Halloween...

It seems to have always been a uniquely American thing -- the way we celebrate it, in America, I mean -- doesn't seem to have parallels in other countries. Even going back to the mid-1800s (when it seems to have started).

And it's ebbed and flowed even in my own lifetime. When I was a kid, it was little more than an excuse for an in-class party with cupcakes in elementary school (the under-12 ages), and trick-or-treating after dinner. Cutting a pair of eye holes out of a sheet and throwing it over your head was a perfectly acceptable costume.

Now, it's on a par with America's over-the-top Christmas (A neighbor across the cul-de-sac from me has a giant jack-o-lantern light setup on their roof). And I can't remember the turning point of when it became so big.

And I wonder what the trigger was. Could it have been (as with so much else in this country) 9/11?

Not that I mind. I like the spoopy, and the whimsy. But I do wonder.

#Halloween #American culture #idle musings

[ivie-online]

i’m thinking about how numerous depictions of american kids hating like brussels sprouts reinforced the ‘ew vegetable are stinky’ and need for products/recipes with ‘hidden veggies’. when I was little some european relatives made this wonderful purple cabbage dish and i loved it. it was my favorite color, still crisp, and seasoned perfectly. I say that because the more I reflect on what non-american kids eat (including throughout africa, asia, and elsewhere) the more I feel like the idea that ‘kids hate vegetables so they should have a special separate category of less nutritious foods’ is, perhaps, an american invention

#discuss #kids food #american culture #vegetable appreciation post

[tabney2023]

Michelle Obama and her daughters, Sasha & Malia.

#michelle obama #barack obama #sasha obama #malia obama #black archives #black is beautiful #black women #black girl magic #black girl hair #natural hair #black girl moodboard #empowering women #family values #mothers love #american culture #black american culture #united states #african american #black history #blackwomenrule #black womanhood #blackexcellence #blackgirlmagic #black hollywood

[the-cricket-chirps]

Smithsonian Museum collection, photo by Eric Long

Original Mr. Spock (Star Trek) ear tips

ca. 1966

#eric long #star trek #mr spock #american television #science fiction #classic television #science fiction art #leonard nimoy #television #american culture #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #artists on tumblr #aesthetic

[war-in]

Inside back cover of Dec 1955 Playboy Magazine

#american culture #playboy magazine #french #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #illustration #illustrative art #satire #year: 1955

[milkbread]

#POLL #ANSWER MY PSIONIC WARRIORS #AMERICAN CULTURE #CMERE

[bisexualseraphim]

USAmericans will literally live in a trailer working 3 jobs for $7 an hour surviving off gas station food and still call themselves ‘middle class.’

Here in the UK if you’re middle class you’re probably a neurosurgeon with a stable-barn and a mansion big enough to have its own name. US middle class is our working class.

Not got owt to say about it, just really fuckin weird innit. I’ve had a few USAmericans describe me as middle class and I’m like mate… I make half of what you do lol

EDIT: I have since been corrected on this!!! Please stop reblogging this without checking the notes first, I was quite wrong!!!

#class divide #class differences #classism #british culture #uk culture #american culture #uk politics #british politics #america politics #us politics #working class #poverty #middle class

[tumbler-polls]

What was/is your high schools mascot? (If you went to multiple high schools do the one you spent the most time at or the one you went to first)

An animal

A group of people (pirates, spartans, trojans, patriots etc)

Anything else

Reblog for a bigger sample size!

#school mascot #high school #american culture #tumblr polls #tumbler polls

[thebsideofthings]

"It’s not just the larger American audience that misinterprets the meaning of Juneteenth. Across the diaspora the message gets distorted, reflected in how most Juneteenth event flyers often have the colors of the Pan-African movement instead of Juneteenth’s actual colors. The official Juneteenth colors are red, white, and blue. The presence of the patriotic colors symbolizes the American flag, serving as a poignant reminder that slaves and their descendants were, and continue to be, an integral part of the United States."

- Shelby Stewart in "As Juneteenth Becomes Co-Opted, Don't Forget Its Texas Roots" for Okayplayer

#juneteenth #texas #black history #american history #public policy #federal holiday #black culture #american culture #history #journalism #politics #usa #music journalism

[nickysfacts]

She got to be the voice of a icon, but sadly paid heavily for it👑

🎶🎞️🎶

#history #adriana caselotti #snow white #actress #disney #animation history #princess #disneyland #disney paris #hollywood history #historical figures #disney princess #movies #walt disney #disney 100 #american culture #womens history #disney girl #soft girl #princess core #coquette #american history #historical women #animated movies #1930s #hollywood

[jstor]

By any chance, do you have any research papers you could recommend that concern the effect of the Cold War on American culture post Red Scare? It’s always been an area of interest for me

Hey!

Here’s an open access chapter titled “The Cold War World” that seems to discuss what you’re looking for!

#jstor #academic research #book chapter #open access #cold war #american culture #red scare

[takaraphoenix]

Seeing Lou and Siobhan fight over whether raspberry mustard or grape jelly is more weird is so funny because I have never heard of either of these things.

This season is just The Most cultural study into both American culture and British culture, because this is like the fifth thing to come up this season where Siobhan is weirded out by American culture and the others are in return weirded out by whatever British thing Siobhan brings up to counter and I am just sitting there, weirded out by both but also deeply fascinated by them.

#Adventuring Party #Fantasy High Junior Year #American Culture #British Culture #Food #it's wild though because I spent... all my life #watching American movies and TV shows #many set in high schools. yet I feel like THIS is #the most Deep Dive into American high school culture?? #and it UTTERLY FASCINATING #and also disturbing and confusing and unsettling

[tabney2023]

Beyonce: Pretty in Hot Pink. Renaissance World Tour (2023)

#beyonce #renaissance #beyonce knowles #renaissance world tour #queen bey #pretty in pink #black women #black excellence #black celebrities #female artists #female singers #black hollywood #pop stars #pop music #r&b divas #fashionista #fashion trends #americantumblr #american culture #black american culture #blacktumblr #melanin queen #black queens