Often associated with society is culture. Culture usually seems to be thought of in relation to the arts. Although I believe that science and technology have and will continue to play a role in culture, the arts will remain the guiding factor to America’s modern day convention.
A culture could be defined as a melting pot, a mixing bowl, or a ground-grown basic. Personally, I believe that American culture can be described best as a melting pot, easily and recognizably due to the fact that it was formed from scratch and not from a base. The product of what began as distinct traditions and ethnicities from an assortment of origins became a combination of new traditions, stereotypes, ideas, and styles that evolved and united to create one culture. This brilliant and rather exclusive culture is subject to envy with its “high supply, high demand” mantra where most everything is accepted, and diversity is apprehended.
Now that our culture has had reasonable time to dissolve and condense, we can begin to identify pattern and repetition to our once lucidly genuine culture. In the present day, every selection of clothing, music, food, style, and perspective seems to be a shard from the rocks of decades passed. It seems that the commencement of the twentieth century marked a starting point for a new arrangement of distinction in era’s; one where culture is a remix of anything past with only a nice polish and a little bit of modern distinguishment. I wonder then if the one thing that does not remain in this time is authenticity itself. Where will our culture go when the megapixels become blurred and the lens can zoom further? I think it is important that we filter our lifestyles, our guiding themes, our dramatic ideas, and certainly our gnashing technology before we lose control of our identity as an American society.
