What is Elizabethan as pertaining to the culture of the American Old West?
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could he mean that the old west was a place for the emmersion of new schools of thought and love for the arts like the Elizabethan era in England was?
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traditional!!!\n\n:-)
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Those sections of the United States, especially in the South and Middle West, where Protestant fundamentalism is widely practiced.\n\nA Bible Belt is an area in which Evangelical Protestant Christianity is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture. The best-known Bible Belt covers a number of Midwestern and Southern states in the United States; other countries, including Canada, Australia, some parts of Europe and oddly enough, Sri Lanka, also have regions whose culture can be described in similar terms. The name derives from the (perceived) overriding importance of the Christian Bible among Evangelical Christian thought and practice.\n\nIn the U.S., the stronghold of the Bible Belt is typically seen as the South, due to the colonial foundations of Protestantism in the culture of the region. The major forms were of Tidewater Anglicanism after the Church of England and Appalachia Presbyterianism after the Church of Scotland.\n\nTHE INFORMATION LISTED ABOVE CAME OUT OF THE BELOW WEB-SITE.\nTHEY ALSO HAVE A MAP THERE SHOWING WISH STATES IN UNITED STATES.
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I definitely do.  European history is so profound in comparison to the 200+ years the US has been in existence.  therefore the European cultures have deep roots.  I especially adore the rich history of the Mediterranian and am proud that I share the bloodlines of those civilizations.
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American culture is a mixture of all the immigration that has taken place since the first settlements were established in this country. There is no such thing as American Culture because it is constantly changing and adopting to the inflow of world cultures that enter our country. You can say that America is a world culture since it is represented by all the cultures of the world. You can find food, dress, language, music and everything under the sun in America from all the cultures of our world. That is what makes America the best place on earth, the migration of cultures that bring their genius to our doors. And because America is the best offer for so many cultures immigration will never end, thus our richness will continue to grow with each group of people that comes across to our great land, and I welcome each and everyone of them, for I was once an immigrant of this country....KECK
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I found this on the net, hope its correct.\nContra-Culture:       A social group that has developed values and modes of behavior that are in conflict with the prevailing culture. (Juvenile gangs, female gangstas, Crips, Bloods, Latin Kings).
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The term "native American" is sometimes used to refer to the people who were living in the land now called North America when Europeans arrived there in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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good links are\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oaltoc.htm\nKey Sites on American Literature:\n\nSTART HERE.  This is a tremendous collection of links! Surf from one to the next.\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/amlitweb.htm#general\n\nAmerican Studies : North American liter</span><span class="Normal--Char" style=" font-weight: bold; ">ature \nhttp://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/headlist.php?sub=american&code=FC.654\n\nThe Cambridge History of English and American Literature  \n    An encyclopedia in 18 volumes. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature. \n\n    From Project Bartleby.\n\nhttp://bartleby.com/225/index.html\n\nFire and Ice; Puritan and Reformed Writings \n    Biography, historical inforamtion, etexts\n\nhttp://www.puritansermons.com/\n\nThe Seventeenth Century: Echoes of the Renaissance and Reformation \n    Lecture notes from Michael S. Seiferth\n\nhttp://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/amlit1.html\n\nHumbul Humanities Hub  \n    Searchable index to humanities materials; from UK\n\nhttp://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/headlist.php?sub=american&code=FC.654\n\nAmericanLiterary Movements  \n    Defines literary terms, timeline, biography and links for authors. \n\n    From Donna Campbell\n\nhttp://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/litfram.html\n\nPAL: Perspectives in American Literature \n    Covers major movements in American literature. Excellent site\n\nhttp://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html\n\nThe American Renaissance and Transcendentalism  \n    From PBS. I Hear America Singing\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.html\n\nModern American Literature  \n    Early 20th century; by Mary Klages, University of Colorado, Boulder\n\nhttp://www.colorado.edu/English/amlit/mod.html\n\nNaturalism in American Literature  \nDiscussion, selected authors, bibliographies from Donna M. Campbell, \n\nGonzaga University\n\nhttp://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl413/natural.htm\n\nPAL: Late Nineteenth Century Naturalism  \n    From Perspectives in American Literature\n\nhttp://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/6intro.html\n\nMy Virtual Encyclopedia; Online Reference Desk \n    Large number of literature links.\n\nhttp://www.refdesk.com/books.html#top\n\nOnline Texts:  (Many older books are now available on the internet)\n\nAMERICAN LITERARY CLASSICS \nComplete texts of over twenty-five American literary classics\n\nhttp://www.americanliterature.com/ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES.HTML\n\nLibrary of Congress Electronic Texts \nhttp://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html\n\nAfrican American Writers : Onli</span><span class="Normal--Char" style=" font-weight: bold; ">ne E-texts \nhttp://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm\n\nAmerican and English Literature \nhttp://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/online.htm\n\nUniversity of Virginia online texts \nEXCELLENT SITE!\n\nhttp://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
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Do you mean Western as in Old West or Western as in North American?\n\nWesterns:\n\n1) Sharon Stone = Russel Crowe = The Quick and the Dead (1995)\n2) Sandra Locke = Clint Eastwood =  The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) \n3) Vera Miles = John Wayne = The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance \n\nWestern Movies:\n\n1) Sandra Bullock = Bill Pullman = While You Were Sleeping\n2) Julia Roberts = Richard Gere = Pretty Woman\n3) Meg Ryan = Tom Hanks = Sleepless in Seattle
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traditional is wood, modern is silverware....
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in the early 19th century,the area around Independence and St.Joseph,Missouri was the "far west". Any farther west was for the most part wild and unknown country. The native tribes considered the erosion causing "rolling carts" and the immigrants travelling them to be trespassers. Tribal relations with the Europeans would decide how  these disruptive white people would be dealt with. It is only after many incidences of treachery, slaughter of cherished food stock animals, land-grubbing,and mass immigration that the natives ran out of answers to the great white problems which seemed to divide their culture with roads and unwanted problems.The phrase "Manifest Destiny" seemed to imply that it was a divine right of the settlers to plant themselves anywhere they wanted to. Often small infractions became larger problems. Misunderstandings with native culture became prejudice and hatred. Native misunderstandings of caucasian culture seemed to prophecize the end of their millenium old customs and traditions. When the trails to the west became more proliferant and widespread and immigration robbed natives of sacred ground,food,and heritage--the tribes retaliated in the only way left available to them--with the same hostilities they used against other imposing tribes. You can only imagine their shock and horror at the explosion of migration when the railroads were built. WHen the Santa Fe trail was completed-the expansion of the US was still in full bloom-many people were seeking the gold and silver fields of New Mexico,Arizona,and California. The southwestern tribes were neither allegiant to Mexico or the Spanish,and now, alien  Europeans were coming to stake their own claims,and subdivert the land with their own strange customs and mannerisms. By the time Geronimo died in the early 20th century,most of these tribes had been secluded to small reservations or removed completely to Oklahoma--
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Elizabethan English was a declined and conjugated language.  It was four hundred years closer to its German/Latin/Norman forebearers, and so endings etc., were common in the language.  Here I list some of the more common differences between Elizabethan and modern English.\n\nThe first thing one must realize is whereas in modern English the word "you" can be used in the singular and plural, and stays the same whether in the nominative, accusative, or dative, in Elizabethan English, there were differentiations of form in the second person pronoun (modern english does retain a genitive form of the word, in your/yours).\n\nThou: Second person pronoun, singular nominative  (subject of the sentence).\nThy/Thine: Second person pronoun, singular genitive (possessive).\nThee: Second person pronoun, singular dative/accusative (object of the sentence/preposition).\nYe: second person pronoun, plural nominative.\nYour/yours: second person pronoun, plural genitive.\nYou: second person pronoun, plural dative accusitive.\n\nAnother difference is verb endings.  We almost entirely dropped these endings in modern english, and replaced word order as a means of understanding a sentence.\n-est: second person present\n-eth: third person present\nhast: second person present of the verb to have\nhath: third person present of the verb to have\n\nHope this helps some.
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I got this from a website about Elizabeth I:\n\nThe Elizabethan age is celebrated for its literary and dramatic culture, its music and chivalry. The Elizabethan nobility loved to have a good time, and knew just how to have it. The wealthy of the land would entertain each other with great banquets of rich foods, wine, music and dancing. They would play games against each other, play sports such as tennis or bowls, and they would ride and hunt. Women too would participate in some of these sports, aswell as play musical instruments, draw, sew and embroider. \n When Queen Elizabeth was not busy with matters of state, she too would enjoy some of  these pleasures.  Evenings at court were full of entertainments often dedicated to the Queen, and often there would be public performances conducted especially for her, but the Queen also enjoyed less public activities. \nElizabeth loved to horse ride. She would spend many an hour riding fast through the Palace grounds. Her love for the sport terrified her Councillors, who feared that she would seriously injure, or even kill herself, from a fall. But Elizabeth was undaunted, and continued to ride long distances and at great speed until the end of her life. Even in her sixties she could ride a distance of ten miles, which she once proved to a courtier who advised the ageing Queen to take the carriage. Elizabeth would tire out her ladies by riding hard, and early in her reign, Robert Dudley,  her Master of Horse, had to bring over some new horses from Ireland, as the Queen's own horses were not fast or strong enough for her. Elizabeth and Dudley would ride together often. He was probably the most accomplished horse-man in England, and could match the Queen's speed and vigour. In the summer of 1560, Elizabeth and Dudley rode together almost everyday, while some of her ministers bewailed that the Queen was neglecting matters of state.\n \n Elizabeth also loved to hawk and to hunt. She would hunt deers and stags with her courtiers, and when the unfortunate animal was caught, she would be invited to cut its throat.  In 1575, the French Ambassador reported that she had killed “six does” with her cross bow.  Hunting was quite an event, and would take several hours, so the Queen and her courtiers would often have a picnic in the forest. \nThe Elizabethans had no concept of animal cruelty, and enjoyed a whole manner of violent animal sports, such as bear baiting, cock-fighting, and dog fighting. Elizabeth was particularly fond of bear baiting. However, animals were also kept as much loved pets, and pets were well looked after. Elizabeth's horses were well cared for, and in all likelihood, Elizabeth had her favourite horses that meant a lot to her. She also had a little dog (perhaps several over the course of her long reign) that she loved very much, and who went everywhere with her.\n \n As well as participating in sports, the Queen also enjoyed watching them. She would occasionally watch a game of tennis, especially if one of her favourite courtiers was playing, and once she even dressed up as one of her ladies so that she could secretly watch Robert Dudley compete in a shooting match, and afterwards surprised him by revealing her identity. Sometimes tournaments would be held, and from 1572 onwards, a very grand tilt tournament was held to celebrate the Queen's accession day. \nElizabeth loved the outdoors, and was especially fond of taking long walks in her beautifully ornate gardens.  In one of her many palaces, she even had a terrace built so that she could walk away from preying eyes.\n \n  \nElizabeth I playing the lute \nBuy this print at Allposters.com \n The Elizabethans loved music, and Elizabeth was no exception. She was a skilled musician and played the virginals and the lute.  She enjoyed musical entertainments, encouraged musicians and composers, and was especially fond of dancing.  She would dance the difficult and demanding dance, The Galliard,  every morning to k
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Tradition is a connection, respect and acknowlodgment of where you came from or your past.  \n\nie if you like and respect your past/heritage then do it!  If you don't care at all, even in regards to family then don't.
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Baked Blackbirds, among others, were considered a delicacy in old England (Edwardian/Elizabethan) - that's where it comes from.
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North American culture is not a quarter as romantic as European culture for either sex.  I suppose a lot of it has to do with priorities that these different cultures place on things.  Here in North America is seems that people are more interested in belongings and things, while in Europe (certainly there is greed for belongings there also) but people tend to be raised to value the beauty of each other and so their romance is more outgoing then here.  Plus the fact that America is only 250 years old or so and some of these European places have been around for 1000's of years so there traditions are more inbred.
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these sites may help:\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741502192_2/Colonial_America.html\n\nhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8659