Pop Culture Influence On America
The average human being spends 78,894 hours of their free time watching television. That is more than 3000 days or 9 years. With such an immense amount of time invested into television, it is only obvious that the television shows have some influence on the way humans live their lives. Television and films are one of the many extensive parts of what is known as popular culture. Popular culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images, and much more. The United States has been influencing other countries with pop culture as long ago as when Washington was the president, even if it was in different forms. Television has influenced other countries by giving them an unrealistic visual and not censoring the drugs, sex, and violence. Racist items, originated in America, are included in
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Racism in our country has become a more commonplace discussion the past decade. In my short lifetime, the country has seen several terror attacks and even protests for racial equality such as “#BLACKLIVESMATTER”. I am sure that racism and these movements would be much smaller without america’s impact. America impacts other countries by portraying people incorrectly in movie and the spread of comments on social media. Overall, this makes America have a weak image and makes us as a country look rude, uneducated, and selfish. To other countries, racism is just something sad that nobody wants to deal with. It has been pointed out that,”Americanization in the Muslim world is pushing some Arabs to embrace more extremist beliefs” or “Arabs were depicted as exotic,wildly sexual beings.” (Source D) As Americans get more and more racist, less and less people move and come to our country. Racism has a devastating mental impact on victims which is overlooked by the majority of people. Unfortunately, another important part of pop culture looked over by the majority of people is social
Racism in our country has become a more commonplace discussion the past decade. In my short lifetime, the country has seen several terror attacks and even protests for racial equality such as “#BLACKLIVESMATTER”. I am sure that racism and these movements would be much smaller without america’s impact. America impacts other countries by portraying people incorrectly in movie and the spread of comments on social media. Overall, this makes America have a weak image and makes us as a country look rude, uneducated, and selfish. To other countries, racism is just something sad that nobody wants to deal with. It has been pointed out that,”Americanization in the Muslim world is pushing some Arabs to embrace more extremist beliefs” or “Arabs were depicted as exotic,wildly sexual beings.” (Source D) As Americans get more and more racist, less and less people move and come to our country. Racism has a devastating mental impact on victims which is overlooked by the majority of people. Unfortunately, another important part of pop culture looked over by the majority of people is social