Attempting to analyze and explain culture one finds him/herself lost in a sea of lifestyles, opinions, and beliefs. Although we strive for others to find shelter and convert into believing our own culture and way of life, our attempts are confronted and shot down with the freedom of the 'American Culture.' Or is it 'free' at all? And if so what is the physical, mental, or painful price? Culture is not only a belief or lifestyle, it is nature, our environment which we don't stop and take notice of its beauty and its fragile life. Our culture toys with the environment, pokes at our neighbors, and separates and unites us with its language.
             Anyone can believe freely, but to express that belief and its teachings can lead to questioning, hate, hope, peace, or even love. This is the power of freedom. American culture is described as 'God-given freedom,' (Lindsay) although not all of it is 'free.' True a person can live the way he/she would like to in America but there may be unnecessary challenges to defeat along the way. While driving down any part of LA you see people on the streets begging for money, women and men, both young and old, selling themselves for money, homeless gathered in front of the Hollywood Methodist church bowing in front of the cross. Turn around across the street and you can see apartments that only climb more and more expansive with every mile North. These erratic differences are less than 50 feet from each other and within sight of the naked eye.
             My close friend Marcel goes to school and lives in Hollywood. Marcel is a homosexual and not often receives poor treatment in Hollywood because of his born lifestyle. Although if you are a homosexual in say Rancho Cucamonga or any other part of suburbia, that individual would be looked down on in society. The change comes from the American culture; it is a culture built on several cultures, it is n
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