Italian Americans, a term for Americans of Italian descent, make up approximately 6% of the country’s population. They are the fourth largest ethnic group of European origin but their visibility and impact on popular culture is much greater than that. Italian Americans have always retained enough elements of their culture to be a very distinctive […]

Disney Channel has been a great launching pad for scores of young stars who have gone on from being teenyboppers to huge sensations. Many, like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake have gone on to become superstars with huge solo careers and legions of fans. The latest crop of stars from Disney seems all […]

Who doesn’t love to see a beautiful arrangement of flowers or inhale the aroma from a lovely flower bed? Flowers have been designed to be beautiful and fragrant so that they can attract the attention of wandering insects, and thereby use them to do pollination. We humans too are not immune to their charms. However, […]

The 1960s was the period when the Hippie subculture started as a youth movement in the United States and quickly began to symbolize the disaffection of the youth with accepted social values of the time. Hippies had a lifestyle all of their own and they had a very distinct fashion sense and musical taste. While […]

Are you planning to take up tattooing as a hobby? If you have an artistic bent of mind and you are interested in tattoos and the subcultures that place great value on them, then you should really consider learning how to handle tattoo guns. This is a great way of expressing your creativity and some […]

For those of you who always wanted to play the guitar but did not have time to go for classes, there is a wonderful new option courtesy the internet. Going to a guitar class can be quite a frustrating experience and it can also be very expensive, especially if you are a bit slow in […]

When the Japanese company Sanrio first introduced Hello Kitty to the local market in 1974, they had no inkling of just how popular the cute little figure would become worldwide. The little Japanese bobtail cat with a prominent red bow on her head is now the face of a business that pulls in more than […]

Social networking sites have become such a part of popular culture that it is very difficult to find anyone who does not belong to one or more of these sites. Social networking sites such as MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, Hi5 and Facebook have become so essential to modern social relationships that they have become very crowded […]

To those not in the know, all there is to being Goth is wearing black clothes. Goths are a very well defined sub culture and they are easily identified, mostly due to their distinctive clothing. However, there are more aspects to their culture even though it is very amorphous and not easily defined. There is […]

Anybody who has the slightest knowledge of the world around us knows that our planet is heading for troubled times. There are parts of the world where the population is growing unchecked leading to an ecological crisis. On the other hand, there are countries where industrial development is also growing at a fast pace and […]