How did America Influence Popular Culture in Australia?
Date Submitted: 07/02/2003 01:08:54
Category: / History / World History
Length: 4 pages (1119 words)
Category: / History / World History
Length: 4 pages (1119 words)
How did America influence popular culture in Australia?
The 'How' in this question holds two meanings: how as in the Why, or method; and how as in a description of impact. In this essay, I shall attempt to account for both.
How (as in method) did the USA change our formerly British ways? This was done in a 3-step process.
Step one was initiation. In Australia's case, WW2 was what initiated our relationship with America. …
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…free time. Seeing our sporting fortune slump, our government also began supporting our athletes financially - thus allowing them to train fulltime, and devoted funds to scientific research to help them perform better. Thus, under indirect American influence, Australians became even more devoted to sport.
Our links with America has broken through our sense of geographic isolation. Adopting America's mass communications, trade, financial investment, politics and popular culture, we have entered the modern post-war world.
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