Arthur Berger describes America’s popular culture deal with topics such as popular music, comics, advertising, television, radio, humor, artifacts, and various other topics. He discusses how when he taught Popular culture it was considered a “trivial” matter. Now, popular culture is a trending topic. Students find it more interesting when they are provided with methods of analysis that applies to popular culture rather than lectured and offered ideas about popular culture. He uses an onion as a metaphor to culture. He suggests with the metaphor that you can peel away the stripes of the onion and in the center, find the myths that shape us. There are four political cultures: hierarchical elitists, fatalists, egalitarians, and individualists.
