“Culture” is an overused misunderstood word. A new book examines what “culture” means in the US. ” ‘Faded Mosaic’ is no mere exercise in semantic hairsplitting but an argument – to me a most persuasive one – that in these United States at this point in their history, ‘culture,’ in the hard anthropological sense, no longer exists except inside a few fringe groups such as the Amish. – Washington Post