美国文化区域

1、There has been much argument about the validity, even the existence of cultural regions in the United States. IntroductIon The USA commonly divided into 4 regions Northeast South Midwest West new england The most clearly dominant region during the century of American expansion Strong in many fields

2、manufacturing, commerce, finance, and maritime activity Socially and culturally (more importantly) education, politics, theology, literature, science, architecture new england Two subregions The older southeastern segment Densely populated Highly urbanized and industrialized The newer northern area

3、Thinly populated Vermont and nearly all of New Hampshire and Maine (after 1770) new england Boston metroplitan area Functional hub (culturally and economically) In wealth and seniority Boston has 27 Universities. new england New England established in the 1600s By deeply religious people To escape d

4、omination and corruption in England Meant to be built into a city upon a hill a Holy Commonwealth Doctrines John Calvin Covenant theology new england In the words of Henry Adams Resistence to something was the law of New England. Great universities and colleges there Its elite With a sense of missio

5、n Represent the idealism of the country the South Three subregional cultures Upper South Deep South Southwest the South The South A mix of British southern Aristocracy, and West African Culture Southern Hospitality, and gracious living. Peculiar regions Bible Belt Sun Belt BIBle Belt Sun Belt the So

6、uth The old aristocracy dreamed of the South as an autonomous nation Rising from the cotton fields Built on plantation system (economically) and slavery (socially) as a separate culture the South The South Exuberant expression, oral tradition, jazz, blues, tap dancing, story telling. Only region in

7、America tied together by its past Whether it could maintain political and social unity with the non-South Convergence with the rest of the USA in economic behavior and material culture in the 20th century the South Origin and spatial structure Characterized by diffuseness Chesapeake Bay area and nor

8、theastern corner of N Carolina A nuclear hearth Was and still is rural area despite the growth of two large metropolitan districts Baltimore and the Hampton Roads conurbations Cities of Charleston and Savannah Nurtured their special cultures Dominated this subregion the MIdland The Midland Between N

9、ew England and the South Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland One of the 3 principal cultural hearths along the Atlantic seaboard Received the least attention Inhabited by the Dutch, Swedes, Finns, and British (polyglot ethnicity) (most polyglot region) Colonization of the area became a

10、success after William Penn late in the 17th century the MIdland New York The heart of the Midland Region New York is not America Common hostilities to New York New Yorks culture has impinged on the imagination of America Hybrid place Enornous suction power Old Dutch aristocracy replaced by the arist

11、ocracy of finance, talent, and cafe society the MIdweSt The Midwest Most nearly representative of the national average This cultural region progeny of all three east-coast regions Early routes of travel all converge upon the state of Ohio Here the people and cultural traits from New England, the Mid

12、land, and the South were first funneled together From here - a fanlike widening westward the MIdweSt Two major subregions Upper Midwest Retains a faint New England literary and artistic character Lower Midwest Resemble the South Common feature Midwest isolationism - Jeffersonian continentalism Domin

13、ation of middle-class values More American Heartland of America Rust Belt Chicago largest city in the Midwest the Far weSt American West Strong in popular imagination Cowboy Isolated clusters of areas 8 major nodes of population Recent intermixture of several strains of culture (Mexico and Asia) Gen

14、eral modernity (settled no earlier than the 1840s) Gold rush the Far weSt Subregions Upper Rio Grande region Southern California Avant-garde character Super-American region - outpost Central California Mormon region Somewhat non-Western in spirit More homogeneous internally MorMon traIl Map There ha

15、s been much argument about the validity, even the existence of cultural regions in the United States. There has been much argument about the validity, even the existence of cultural regions in the United States. the South The South A mix of British southern Aristocracy, and West African Culture Sout

16、hern Hospitality, and gracious living. Peculiar regions Bible Belt Sun Belt the MIdland New York The heart of the Midland Region New York is not America Common hostilities to New York New Yorks culture has impinged on the imagination of America Hybrid place Enornous suction power Old Dutch aristocracy replaced by the aristocracy of finance, ta