American Culture: Individualism, Sports, and Porn

The fact that American culture is declining could be due to the fact that most of our culture focuses on Individualism, sports, and porn. With these three main topics being the reason that American culture is declining. That is what is affecting our community and our American culture. The fact remains that our culture is so focused on self individuality to better themselves is very prominent in today’s society most people would rather do what benefits themselves and not what benefits their community. Which is explained in this quote: “Individualistic culture is a society which is characterized by individualism, which is the prioritization or emphasis, of the individual over the entire group. Individualistic cultures are oriented around the self, being independent instead of identifying with a group mentality.” This explains that our culture is very self centered and doesn’t care about what the entire group or society wants. Which is detrimental to our society for the fact that everyone wants their kids to have a future in America that isn't founded on individualistic ideals, which is where American culture is headed if nothing is done about that. Another idea is that parents give too much too soon leading their children invested in tablets, phones, and video games. This can later on make the younger generation antisocial and glued to their electronics. The fact remains that when a parent does something that benefits only themselves their kids will learn from that and they will behave more like them only looking for what interests themselves and not what the community needs.

Continuing on the sports community is a huge part in the declining of American culture do to the fact that everyone is competing for something that has no effect on society. Yes, when their team loses they will be mad but then after a couple of hours they will completely forget about it. The fact that sports has such a huge pay amount for the athletes competing is insane with a single player making over $100,000 in a single game in the NBA and there are 82 regular season games which adds up to a a lot of money for one person for a game that’s only 2 hours long. This brings a huge problem to the table that everyone focuses on being the best player so they can get that huge payout of millions of dollars a year, and even in football there are some cases of some of the players not being able to read because all they focus on is football and football only a player named Dexter Manley was one of the players who couldn't read. “After his career in the United States ended, he revealed that he was functionally illiterate, despite having studied at Oklahoma State University for four years.”(B) which leads into another problem explained by this quote. “According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 78% of National Football League (NFL) players are either bankrupt or are under financial stress within two years of retirement.” (A) This is unacceptable to have 78% of all NFL players to be in financial trouble.

In addition, The untold truth about the porn industry goes untold, long gone are the days of Playboy’s nude women, with the pornography of today is so violent and so pervasive that even New York times wrote an article about it. Most of the websites on the internet aren't even blocked off for the younger generation, young kids could search it up in their google browser and a thousand links will show up. “The normalization of violent sex is being passed down to future generations. We live in a culture in which it is almost impossible to shield our children from hardcore pornography” (C). Anyone could even come across it without even wanting to. For example I would be watching a youtube video about Cars which is completely unrelated to the topic of sex and a Trojan advertisement would come up. Sex is a private action and it should remain private and not become individuals’ entertainment. In today’s society, sex is advertised in any way, shape, or form and can be nearly impossible to avoid. On a final thought, the topics of Individualism, sports, and porn has lead to a decline of American culture. With these in mind they all have a great impact on our generation such as how individualism makes them more antisocial and becoming like their parents. Also how sports take away the human abilities such as reading, writing, and managing money. Finally pornography leads to something that we can’t avoid and sex is made public and become normal in today’s society. How can we fix these issues for a better society to come?