Culture War

It's hard for me to believe that some sort of culture war exists considering I had not of heard the phrase "culture war" until Friday. I'm pretty sure I'd be able to tell if a war was going on in the United States with all of this social media nonsense and errthang we got going on these days. Anyways, I think these claims, saying that there has been an increase in tensions among Americans over past couple decades over social issues, are a bit off. We have always been a country of arguments and division. It's impossible to have a nation of this size and not have any disagreements over certain polices or what traditional morals we should follow. It's in our nature as we are just one big melting pot. To call it a war is being overdramatic. The only culture war we've ever truly had was the civil war. Everything else is just our political system playing out the way it's supposed to. I don't understand the debate either. Both of the guys said they basically agree on everything except how we label culture and how the feelings of Americans are expressed, be it through the individual or through the elite. It just comes down to your definition of war and what you want to call culture. I don't like the debate.




http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/the-persistence-of-the-culture-war/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/us/04iht-letter04.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/weekinreview/28tanenhaus.html