Americanism
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The term Americanism has several uses. Its chief use refers to the influence of American culture and American English. Also may be used when rebranding America to fit a more ethnocentric and elitist ideology.
United States
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Culture
- In consumer culture and market culture: Americanism, the influence the United States has on the culture of other countries.
- In language, a characteristic feature of American English[1]
Global disposition
- Americanism (ideology), an early 20th-century political ideology frequently posited in opposition to Communism or Fascism
- Americanism (heresy), a group of related heresies founded upon the separation of church and state
- An attitude or conviction which gives special importance to the nation, national interest, political system, or culture of the United States
The Americas
- Pan-Americanism, the ideology of promoting integration between the nations of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean
- A phrase: anything, such as a custom, particular to or characteristic of the Americas, and especially of the United States
Other
- "Americanism", a song by MxPx from their album Teenage Politics
- "Americanism", a book by William T Colyer, an English Communist who, together with his wife, had been deported in 1922 from the USA as a result of the Palmer Raids. This book viewed Americanism and Prussianism as similar.
See also
References
- ^ "Americanism". merriam-webster.com. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 25 October 2012.