Personally I don't think American culture is sterile; I think it is more of a problem of lack of unity of heritage. There are so many different lifestyles and customs that became combined so shortly ago in our country that we don't really have a common culture outside of the consumer culture (go to your local mall and play anthropologist someday). So I think, in many ways, that our "lack" of culture is the very thing that defines our culture. Does that make sense? I think that is often the defining trait of a "young" country (well, a young country built on the backs of an old one, but that's neither here nor there).
TheSmokingMonkey Reviewed by TheSmokingMonkey on . Americans detached from culture and spirituality Hey guys. I'm writing this because, like many young Americans with highly mixed ancestories living in contemporary culture, I feel sort of empty when I hear some of my friends talk about the closeness they feel to their culture; mostly my friend of Mexican heritage, and right now I'm reading a book about the Apache people. This ties in closely with spirituality and our separation from it as a society, as I see it. I've discovered a sort of optimistic viewpoint on this 'problem' (it's not Rating: 5