Important Figures and Places
What is the full name of this statue, a gift from France to the U.S., that stands in New York Harbor?
What is the statue of liberty?
Apple pie, baseball, and the American flag.
What are common symbols of American culture?
The three things you shouldn't ask a woman.
What is age, weight, and height?
What is "How are ya/you"?
What is the belief that anyone can succeed if they work hard, have determination, and courage?
What does the Statue of Liberity symbolize?
What is freedom and democracy?
Metaphor/theory used to describe the assimilation of immigrants into American culture.
What is the Melting Pot culture?
What the matters of the heart taboo "forbids" people to discuss.
What is very personal matters?
The general rule for personal space.
What is about an arm's length away?
The red, white, and blue top hat and striped pants of this symbol of the U.S. are based on the colors of the American flag.
Who is Uncle Sam?
This theory/metaphor is used to counter the melting pot metaphor to state that people keep their individual cultures rather than completely assimulate into American culture.
What is a Salad Bowl?
This taboo can uphold unequal pay practices.
What is the income/salary taboo?
The expected precentage to tip a server.
What is 20%?
This building is the office of the President of the United States.
What is the White House?
The region/area with the biggest influence on American culture in the beginning (when the first immigrants started settling down).
What is Northern Euroupe?
The definition of a taboo.
What is an activity, topic, or thing that is “forbidden” due to social, cultural, and/or personal beliefs/moral?
This dinning taboo is usually practiced in more formal settings.
What is waiting until everyone is served to eat?
In what war did the British set fire to the White House?
What is the Second British War (1812)?
The name of the poem written by Emma Lazarus that is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, symbolizing the melting pot?
What is "The New Colossus"?
Example of a stereotypical small talk phrase.
What is "so how's the weather"?
The definition of etiquette.
What is the customary code of polite behaviour in society or among members of a particular profession or group?
James Truslo Adams
Who first defined the American Dream?