Women's Contribution To American Culture

Additionally to women, the Native Americans had contributed greatly to the culture and identity of the United States as a cohesive whole by serving as a collective force against their gradual defeat and eventual evacuation, by which they had served as a sort of guideline of morality for the American settlers. By leading battles and other such conflicts out of pure strength and will, by standing up for what had remained of their culture and identity at that point in time, the Native Americans had at least succeeded in contributing to the aspect of culture of persistence and morality. Effectively, by disallowing their settlements to be overtaken by the settlers, the natives had shown to the nation that conflict was, and would be, a very necessary …show more content…
Via women’s contribution to the morality movement of the nation, for instance, they had received in return the benefit of increased equality to men, though it had still not been wholly present. More women had become the breadwinners of their respective households, and had generally undergone a transformation which had educated them, improved their health, provided them with wealth, and had granted them more independence from those men whom the women had wished to separate from due to mistreatment, or misassumption of traditional gender roles by the collective male …show more content…
The relations of the three rather vulnerable groups, in the historical context of the early 1800s, can be compared to such relations as applicable to modern times. At present, women and African-Americans contribute more than ever to the collective reformation movement, leading to controversies and breakthroughs at the same time in current events. For instance, the time is rapidly approaching when the first woman is inaugurated as the President of the United States. Already, the first African-American has been elected to the all-important office, symbolic of the ultimate position of power in the United States. This all relates to the transformative identity of the United States as a whole, which is as a world power, both economically and as a source and attractor of progress, in that the incidences demonstrate the continually elevating status of once lowly-ranked and perceived groups; namely, the three groups - women, Native Americans, and African-Americans - previously