Seattle: A City of Community

America is often characterized as an individualistic or an individually oriented society, rather than a group-oriented society. However, even within the American nation itself, there are distinctions to be made on a city-to-city and a coast-to-coast basis between essentially group-oriented and individually oriented societies. Seattle is perhaps the most notable example of the former, a truly group-oriented society.

Seattle is one of the most recently famous cities in America today. It is a West Coast city, but not a city that is involved in the movie industry. But Seattle became one of the founding places for a new wave of American culture, particularly the new wave of 'grunge' or alternative music that swept the nation during the 1990's despite this. It also came to represent a new expansive and community-based ethos of environmentalism and caring business practices. Music, environmentalism, and coffee all became connected in...
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