Cultural icon Wikipedia. Apple pie, baseball, and the United States flag are three American cultural icons. A cultural icon is an artifact that is identified by members of a culture as representative of that culture. The process of identification is subjective, and icons are judged by the extent to which they can be seen as an authentic proxy of that culture. When individuals perceive a cultural icon, they relate it to their general perceptions of the cultural identity represented. Cultural icons can also be identified as an authentic representation of the practices of one culture by another. In the media, many items and persons of popular culture have been called iconic despite their lack of durability and the term pop icon is often now used. Some commentators believe that the word is overused or misused. A subset of cultural icons are national icons. A web based survey was set up in 2. England4 and the results reflect the range of different types of icon associated with an English view of English culture. Some examples are Matryoshka dolls are seen internationally as cultural icons of Russia. In the former Soviet Union, the hammer and sickle symbol and statues of Vladimir Lenin instead represented the countrys most prominent cultural icons. The values, norms and ideals represented by a cultural icon vary both among people who subscribe to it, and more widely among other people who may interpret cultural icons as symbolising quite different values. Thus an apple pie is a cultural icon of the United States, but its significance varies among Americans. National icons can become targets for those opposing or criticising a regime, for example, crowds destroying statues of Lenin in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism1. Stars and Stripes flag to protest about US actions abroad. Religious icons can also become cultural icons in societies where religion and culture are deeply entwined, such as representations of the Madonna in societies with a strong catholic tradition. CriticismeditDescribing something as iconic or as an icon has become very common in the popular media. This has drawn criticism from some a writer in Liverpool Daily Post calls iconic a word that makes my flesh creep, a word pressed into service to describe almost anything. The Christian Examiner nominates iconic in its list of overused words, finding over 1. Sponge. Bob Square. Pants. 1. 9See alsoeditReferenceseditGrayson, Kent Martinec, Radan 2. Consumer Perceptions of Iconicity and Indexicality and Their Influence on Assessments of Authentic Market Offerings. Journal of Consumer Research. ISSN 0. 09. 3 5. Motley, Carol M. Henderson, Geraldine Rosa 2. The global hip hop Diaspora Understanding the culture. Journal of Business Research. Cross Cultural Business Research. 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The DNA Mystique The Gene as a Cultural Icon. University of Michigan Press. Reydams Schils, Gretchen J 2. Platos Timaeus as Cultural Icon. University of Notre Dame Press. External linksedit.