How Does Culture Change American Culture

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This connects to culture because it begs questions about America’s whole history and American culture. It calls for debates about who really found America, and leaves us wondering with the question, “what would’ve happened had Christopher Columbus not come across and steal the Native Americans’ land?” It shows that culture now isn’t all that different from culture then because instead of ignoring the holiday, someone actively and publicly went about hating it by putting an axe into a statue of Christopher Columbus’s head. Just as Columbus and the other men on his ship simply could’ve ignored the Native Americans but no, instead they turned to the genocide of their people. Culture is a constantly changing thing in the world today, but I think

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