During our talkback on Honor Culture, we listened to a podcast describing various situations that would come up in an honor culture. One instance involved a perceived challenge to the qualities of a teenage boy steering a motor vehicle, and responding by aggressively doubling down on the challenged behavior. The other, a much more public story about a french football star whom, on the final game of his career, got himself disqualified by attacking a member of the opposing team over an insult to his sister. As I listened further to the podcast, I became increasingly interested in the topic. Both because I recognised the similarities to experiences that I have had in my own life, and not leastways because I the foreign culture I choose to study (日本の文化) is sterotypically known for its cultural emphasis on honor. In this webpage, I'd like to take a look at the ways in which honor cultures permeate throughout American culture, in particular, the ways in which the ideals created by Honor Culture have shaped our country's political landscape, since its inception. I will be looking at three major events in American history, in which I believe honor cultures plunged us into conflict. Then, with a short program I will attempt to demonstrate how honor cultures continue to shape our understanding of American political life.