Many things are "still going", but around me I can many traditions getting knocked away one after another. 1 Here are a handful of things in no particular order:
- shopping malls
- professional sports
- cafes, coffee shops
- public school, including "school traditions"
- holidays
- "work/home balance"
Growing up, these things were still pretty much in place in a comparable state to what my parents' generation had. News things like the Internet came up, but still the Internet was being used to augment/add upon existing infrastructure, not wholesale replacing it.
I would say that the arrival and popularization of the smartphone was a kind of "societal inflection point" for how many things are done.
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Much of "American Culture" (or global culture) is pretty new creation—developed over the past 200 years or so ↩