Americans

I have been horrible with keeping up with reading in my classes this quarter. As an engineering student, I'm used to having my classwork mainly consist of working out problems, writing lab reports, developing code, etc. Reading, though?! Sheesh. This quarter will be a change of pace for me.

Despite my lack of attention span to textbooks, I am a total junkie when it comes to reading the news. I can spend hours on BBCNews.com, linking between tons of interrelated articles. Some of my other favorites are MSNBC, The Economist, and Wired. They all have informative and user-friendly websites with interesting articles from around the world.

I've just started researching stuff for our first paper, due this weekend, about culturally mosaic societies. It's interesting whenever I hear folks try to characterize Americans and American culture. I tend to disagree with this whole notion that American culture is converging into one giant cesspool of capitalism. People tend to forget just how vast America is geographically - and overlook the distinct regions and subcultures present in America. Folks in the Southern states are distinctly different from New Englanders, Midwesterners, Californians, Texans, folks from the Plain States, etc.