Thread: Do Americans and Australians have a culture?

If yes how old?

Culture is a way of life of a group of people. It includes common practices of a society, its shared understandings, and it social organization.

Components of Culture:

Common Practices
-what people eat
-clothing and adornment
-tools and technology
-social customs
-work

Shared Understandings
-language
-symbols
-religious beliefs
-values
-the arts
-political beliefs

Social Organizations
-family
-class and caste structure
-relationships between individual and community
-government
-economic systems
-views of authority

Yes. According to this, Americans and Australians have a culture.

It's a few centuries old, but nevertheless, they have one.

EDIT:
To Pepper:
Number one... Race has absolutely nothing to do with your religious practices. Number two, I said beliefs... not belief. And Number three; you're arguing with a textbook so if you think religion has nothing to do with culture, you need to do some research to back up that argument.

cwalkwhitey: What culture do Australians have beyond yanking away land from the natives and treating them like crap? Go on, let's hear it. Surfing? Eating disgusting food like chips and vegemite? Speaking the poorest English on the face of the planet? What is your culture? All you said is "yes we do" but have nothing to back it up. Arrogance.

Being from the US I can say I feel like many other countries have a much richer culture than I experience here. But as an anthropologist I must say that culture is everywhere, tradition is just as much a part of culture as non-tradition.
Cultures can be "understood as systems of symbols and meanings that even their creators contest, that lack fixed boundaries, that are constantly in flux, and that interact and compete with one another"