RE: Why is America so religious?
December 16, 2011 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2011 at 12:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We do lean heavily on tradition. Kids still play cowboys and indians (kind of macabre when you think about it). Everyone retatins some part of their history, or how they've interpreted it. 200 years really isn't that long when you consider the amount of time that old world cultures have managed to cling to their past's. The "cowboy era" , just for one example, was roughly 20 years from start to finish. Even so we have tons of westerns, and country music is a huge money maker to this very day. Cashing in on one of the myths that formed the basis of our culture.
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