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The formation of American slang can also serve as a reflection of culture and has changed as American culture developed. For example, as people began speaking out in defense of homosexuality in the 1960s, vulgar language and slang became more acceptable to use and began to be included in dictionaries. [citation needed]
The shorter List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding is composed of those cultural elements that concerned communities and countries consider to require urgent measures to keep them alive. [5] [6] The third list is the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices.
The cultural expressions and spaces proposed for proclamation had to: [15] demonstrate their outstanding value as masterpiece of the human creative genius; give wide evidence of their roots in the cultural tradition or cultural history of the community concerned; be a means of affirming the cultural identity of the cultural communities concerned;
The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage [4] defines the intangible cultural heritage as the practices, representations, expressions, as well as the knowledge and skills (including instruments, objects, artifacts, cultural spaces), that communities, groups, and, in some cases, individuals, recognize as part of their cultural heritage.
Developments in the culture of the United States in modern history have often been followed by similar changes in the rest of the world (American cultural imperialism). This includes knowledge, customs, and arts of Americans, as well as events in the social, cultural, and political spheres.
Civic culture is the invisible fabric that holds our diverse democracy together — the shared norms, values, narratives, habits, and rituals that guide how we live, work, and govern as a society.
The traditional culture of the Southern United States has been called a "culture of honor", that is, a culture where people avoid intentionally offending others, and maintain a reputation for not accepting improper conduct by others.
In American urban environments, a form of street culture using freeform and semi-staccato poetry, combined with athletic break dancing, was developing as the hip hop and rap subculture. In jazz jargon, the word rap had always meant speech and conversation. The new meaning signified a change in the status of poetry from an elitist artform to a ...