Mass Culture And Conformity Essay

While mass culture fostered conformity Americans preferred and been known for their prominent individual identities. The further mass culture pushed conformity, the debate became one in which Conformity and communism were equated and that mass culture was creating a conformist society that could easily succumb to the faults of communism. Billy Graham preached about the rise of a new mass culture and America's prosperity and the misuse of it being the equivalent of idolatry. Ironically, religion was becoming a part of mass culture during the same period. Graham also preached about the common link between Christian teachings and American values he also warned against the evils of communism which he called a great sinister anti-christian movement masterminded by Satan.

Even the “kitchen debate” between Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev illustrated the ideological Debate between communism and capitalism as seen by debate on conveniences of American modern homes as depicted in the model homes on display at the July 1959 U.S. Exposition in Moscow. Conveniences seen as modern necessities also part of mass culture and disregarded and mocked by the Communist Soviet leader as being nothing more than “worthless gadgets”.The American display of televisions dishwashers and the other consumer devices to make life easier in American homes simply in enraged Nikita Khrushchev. Clearly not having such conveniences nor having the advantage of the American mass culture Nikita Khrushchev was simply intimidated and reacted as such in an intimidating manner providing a videoed graphic image of the Cold War. In some sense both Nikita Khrushchev and Billy Graham agreed that much of the mass culture gadgets we're not good for the populist however there agreement in this area was for different