Culture in the Midwest

Amy Garland

Blessing- Rieman College of Nursing

Culture in the Midwest

In the Midwest our culture seems to be somewhat simple, but definitely it has a modern twist. Work and education is a major part of our culture unlike many other cultures outside of the United States mainly due to the availability. School is mandated for the youth of our culture rather than a privilege as it is in other areas of our world. Women in our culture tend to work outside the home because that extra income is needed to survive in a society that money is a major part of survival. To start with the household, women are frequently employed outside of the household and may be the “bread winners”. This is pretty common in the United States since the woman’s rights movement’s years ago. Women not only work outside the homes, but are usually the caregivers of the children as well. It is common to see a single working mother more often than you see a family with both parents. This is mainly because the divorce rates are more than 50% of all marriages. Also more women are having children out of wed lock because the norm of having to be married before intimacy and children has been lost on a majority. This is not to say that it is completely lost, but has become the marginal crowd. Crime here tends to be expected rather than the shock that it should be. A crime in the Midwest and the United States for that matter has become an expected activity rather than a shock. Every tv show and news hour shows crimes that have occurred. Crimes against children and women are going on every day and the violence does not stop there. Murder and sex crimes are becoming just part of our everyday expectations. This is a major change from how things were years ago. With all this though I still find our culture in a much better situation than some