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The culture of the United States is primarily a Western culture, but is also influenced by Native American, African, Asian, Polynesian, and Latin American cultures. American culture started its formation over 10,000 years ago with the migration of Paleo-Indians from Asia into the region that is today the continental United States. It has its own unique social and cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine, and folklore. The United States of America is an ethnically and racially diverse country as a result of large-scale immigration from many different countries throughout its history.

Cliff Palace, an ancient dwelling complex in Colorado.

Mission San Xavier del Bac near Tucson, Arizona.

The Fireproof Building, Charleston, South Carolina, by Robert Mills

The Ohio State Capitol, in Columbus, 1861, Henry Walters

The Cathedral of St. Patrick

New York's Woolworth Building

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Traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, and cranberry sauce.

A cream-based New England chowder, trad-itionally made with clams and potatoes.

A Caesar salad containing croutons, Parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, Worcestershire, and pepper.

Creole Jambalaya with shrimp, ham, tomato, and Andouille sausage.

Chicken Fried Steak (alternatively known as Country Fried Steak).

California club pizza with avocados and tomatoes.

National Food of America

A submarine sandwich, which includes a variety of Italian luncheon meats.

American style breakfast with pancakes, maple syrup, sausage links, bacon strips, and fried eggs.

A hot dog sausage topped with beef chili, white onions and mustard.

A barbecue pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw as the side dish.

A meatloaf with a tomato sauce topping.

An apple cobbler dessert

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National Food of America

January 1 - New Year's Day. Celebrates beginning of the Gregorian calendar year. Festivities include counting down to midnight (12:00 am) on the preceding night, New Year's Eve. Traditional end of holiday season.

Third Monday in January. Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., or Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Honors Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights leader, who was actually born on January 15, 1929; combined with other holidays in several states.

First January 20 following a Presidential election Inauguration Day. Observed only by federal government employees in Washington D.C., and the border counties of Maryland and Virginia to relieve traffic congestion that occurs with this major event.

Third Monday in February - Washington's Birthday Washington's Birthday was first declared a federal holiday by an 1879 act of Congress. The Uniform Holidays Act, 1968, shifted the date of the commemoration of Washington's Birthday from February 22 to the third Monday in February.

Last Monday in May Memorial Day. Honors the nation's war dead from the Civil War onwards; marks the unofficial beginning of the summer season. (traditionally May 30, shifted by the Uniform Holidays Act 1968)

July 4 Independence Day - Celebrates Declaration of Independence, also called the Fourth of July.

First Monday in September - Labor Day Celebrates the achievements of workers and the labor movement; marks the unofficial end of the summer season

Second Monday in October Columbus Day - Honors Christopher Columbus, traditional discoverer of the Americas.

November 11 Veterans Day - Honors all veterans of the United States armed forces. A traditional observation is a moment of silence at 11:00 am remembering those killed in war.

Fourth Thursday in November. Thanksgiving Day - Traditionally celebrates the giving of thanks for the autumn harvest. Traditionally includes the consumption of a turkey dinner.

December 25 - Christmas Celebrates the Nativity of Jesus. Some people

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Theater of the United States is based in the Western tradition and did not take on a unique dramatic identity until the emergence of Eugene O'Neill in the early twentieth century, now considered by many to be the father of American drama. O'Neill is a four time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for literature. After O'Neill, American drama came of age and flourished with the likes of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, William Inge, and Clifford Odets during the first half of the twentieth century. After this fertile period, American theater broke new ground, artistically, with the absurdist forms of Edward Albee in the 1960s.

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