Cultural icon

Cultural icon refers to an object or an entity (an artifact) that highly represents a particular culture or subculture. Cultural icons may include different objects ranging from visual, audio or gastronomic objects to a particular person or a group of people. Furthermore, cultural icons tend to occur in high repetition in the media, souvenir merchandising or other settings. A perfect example of a cultural icon could be a red, double-decker bus in London. The definition of a cultural icon may have implications or associations with the following concepts and terms:

• Analyzing cultural icons within the context of mainstream culture and media culture;
• Associating cultural icons with pop culture and pop icons;
• Analyzing cultural icons from the perspective of Zeitgeist.
  

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