Analytic Essay of the Culture of the United States

One idea of American culture that we are ingrained with is monogamous relationships.

According to www.Dictionary.com monogamy is “marriage to only one person at a time”. As a matter of

fact, this idea has been set into law in every state in the United States. For example, my grandparents

Daniel and Kathleen Gibb were married for 75 years, and for all 75 of those years they never veered

from each other and stayed in unity until they both died. This idea, which is widely accepted and in most

places practiced as law, most likely came into being in the U.S. culture because the founders of the

country and their typically Judeo/Christian laws helped create the laws of the land. In the most primal of

forms it is for the children. “The human species has evolved to make commitments between males and

females in regards to raising their offspring, so this [monogamy] is a bond,” said Jane Lancaster, an

evolutionary anthropologist at the University of New Mexico. The ideal of monogamy in American is an

issue debated on daily. In the year 1967 the U.S. passed laws protecting interracial marriage and as of

2013 nine states have passed laws protecting same-sex marriage. These show that a majority of people

from all groups in the U.S. seek monogamy.

A second idea from the U.S. culture is that a free education should be available through the 12th

grade. Jared Gibb, a current student of K.V.C.C, graduated from Watervliet Senior High, a government

funded public school. He attended the school, 12 years, for free. This has become part of the culture as a

mandate from the government to ensure the children have a better opportunity in life to succeed.

Knowledge is power. By the 1870’s all states had free elementary schools and by 1964 all children

regardless of race