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Culture is what keeps a society together so that it can procreate and survive from one generation to another. It includes a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that members use to deal with their world and with one another and that are transmitted through learning. This paper brifly discusses whether America has a specific culture or whether there no distinct culture because the U.S. is a melting pot of many different cultural groups.

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"According to Thomas Sowell, a well-known black American economist, cultural capital, or the habits and beliefs that migrants bring to a new country, is more important in determining the migrants' future than the new homeland's economy, culture, or political system. That is, differences in cultural capital account for differences in economic and social outcomes for separate groups of people. Sowell's argument is that the relative success and failure of ethnic and racial groups is a result of the strong and weak points and degree of development of their own cultures. This is instead of the consequence of external forces such as racial discrimination. "

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