Label: assignment #2
We Are Fond Of America’s Culture
We choose the culture of United States to be discussed further, because we think that their culture and products are exciting. They are all different from Indonesia’s but it doesn’t mean that we don’t like our own culture. We just treasure the difference of cultures and we find America’s culture has a lot of varieties and they’re all wonderful! Since we are fond of their language, I think using English in this posting will be a great step to show how we adore their culture and language.
America’s Culture that we are fancy are:
1. Language and Peoples
There are various languages used in United States. At the time of European contact, two great lines of people of two major language families lived in the Northeast: Algonquian-speaking peoples and Iroquoian-speaking peoples. These peoples can be organized into five major groups, which are:
1. Algonquian people in Nova Scotia, New England, Long Island and many areas
2. Chesapeake Bay and Cape Hatteras
3. Great Lakes Algonquian tribes
4. Prairie Algonquian tribes
5. New York and Ontario Iroquoian tribes
We have no idea about Algonquian and Iroquoian and we also doubt that modern American people know a thing about both of them. The Algonquian and Iroquoian people are one of the largest tribes in American Natives. They are still exist but away from modern cities. But the major language used in USA is English ( as we use Bahasa Indonesia as our major language )but there are a lot of Hispanic people live over here so it's mandatory to learn Spanish or any other language
if u can talk about different race in America then it'll be perfect because America is a country of a "melting pot" we're all different but we blend together because of the love and pride we have in the United States of America
2. Music
There are a million of music industries, music programmes, singers, boybands and bands in USA. For music programmes, VH1, Channel V, and Mtv have broadcasted their programme in all over the world via pay TV. You can find famous singer such Mariah Carey, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears and million more from America. You can find Boyzone, N*Sync and Backstreet Boys as America’s popular boybands. Blink 182, Green Day and not to mention millions more of bands are all from America. All of America’s music makers are well-known all over the world. America has become a super-power country not only economically and politically but also in music industry.
3. Dance
1. America’s Native Dance
Native American dance is unlike most other dances in the world. It is not only a way to have fun, but spiritual in itself. Dance can be a form of prayer, a way of expressing joy or grief, and a method of becoming closer with man and nature.
Native dancing has been aroud just about as long as the Native American people have been: in ceremony, powwows, and just to pass the day/night. The dance also can have healing powers, not only on the dancer, but on people that the dancer is close to, or dancing for.
Native American dance is centered around the drum. It beats in time with the heart of Mother Earth and provides a base for the song. The drum beat is, as in most dances, the key to Native footwork.
2. Modern Dance
a) Break dance
Breakdance, breaking, b-boying or b-girling is one kind of street dance that came as a part of Hip-Hop moves but slightly different. Breakdance was first invented in 1970 by African-American and Puerto Rico hiphop-ers in Southern New York City. Commonly, this kind of dance elaborates with hip-hop, rap tracks or remixed-tracks. The culture of Breakdance are now spreaded worldwide, especially in Japan and Korea.
b) Ballet
The biggest leading Ballet performing-art is America. Here in America, you can find the biggest ballet institution which is American Ballet Academy ( ABA ). One of the Hollywood movie that represents American ballet society is The Center Stage.
4. Literature
a) Historical Literature and Poetry
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American art and literature took most of its cues from Europe. Writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau established a distinctive American literary voice by the middle of the nineteenth century. Mark Twain and poet Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half; Emily Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, would be recognized as America's other essential poet. Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, most recently Toni Morrison in 1993. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel laureate, is often named as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.[1] A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925)—may be dubbed the "Great American Novel." Popular literary genres such as the Western and hardboiled crime fiction developed in the United States.
b) Modern Literature
Since the invention of the comic book format in the 1930s, the United States has been the leading producer with only the British comic books (during the inter-war period and up until the 1970s) and the Japanese manga as close competitors in terms of quantity.
Comic book sales began to decline after World War II, when the medium was competing with the spread of television and mass market paperback books..
But since 1960,comic books about superheroes started to dominate American Comic Industry. The leader of this genre of comic books is Stan Lee, the writer of MARVEL. The best-known comic books by Marvel are now being filmed in Hollywood. For example, Spiderman, Superman, Iron-Man, X-Men, Catwoman, Daredevil and many more.