Reading novels is just a hobby of a few people in the United States
The latest research of National Endowment for THE ARTS has shown that Americans' interest in literary works is "reduced". Compared with 20 years ago, the American who read novels and poetry was greatly reduced, less than about 20 million. In 1982, 57% of Americans read at least one literary work in 2004, and in 2004, this figure fell to 47%. Reading literary works becomes a minority. This survey shows that most Americans "veterans" from the novels are mainly in the last decade, and the number of slipping is probably 14 percentage points. Director Dana Gioia, director of the National Art Foundation, presided over this survey, said the United States is facing "the overall depression of senior literature." Gio Ja is called this phenomenon as "a national crisis." "This is not a representative of Western civilization, but there is no doubt that the decline of Western civilizations," I have worked in the "Times Weekly" and "New York" magazine for many years of literary art reviewer Côte Weddy Kurt Anderson "I believe some basic vision, idea and knowledge, some wisdom and truth, can only pass through novels and poetry," This survey proves that some public have guess the phenomenon, such as being educated than educated Read more literary works; women read more novels than men. Only one-third of American male reading literary works. Caucasian (51.4%) read more literary works than African-American (37.1%) and Latinate Americans (26.5%). In the past 20 years, Latin Americans who read literary works are the fastest (9.9%) in all ethnic groups, followed by white (down 8.4%), other ethnic groups (6.5%), and finally African-American People (5.2%). Asian Americans are not listed as independent statistical groups in this study. This survey also brought some conclusions, such as TV's ubiquitous facts, especially those who don't read novels. American people who read literary works will spend less than 3 hours a day, and those who never read literary works have just been more than three hours a day. However, for book merchants, electronic media is undoubtedly their enemy. Books purchase 5.7% of Americans' leisure consumption in 1990, other electronic audiovisual products and computer and software only account for 6% of this consumption. In 2002, electronic audio product consumption has accounted for 24% of Americans' leisure consumption, while book purchase fell to 5.6%. According to a survey of 1999, there are 2.9 TV, 1.8 video recorders, 2.4 CDs, 1.4 electric game consoles and a computer. This survey of the National Art Foundation this year won't exist of an astonished discovery of the American literary community, that is, the Americans have most embodied in the United States in the United States. In the early 1980s, 60% of the American young (18- 24 years old) read the novel, but now there is only 40% of the American young people who will take a novel reading. According to this survey, there are still 12% of the United States, namely two million Americans, say they are still reading poetry. This number is a few accidents that have an unexpected surprise for a lot of lamenting "Americans who don't study", "Western civilization in the fall" literary critics. It is no wonder that Kevin Starr, Kevin Starr, recently said in the New York Times, "In this refund, it is mainly based on TV, and the culture is only spread and continues through the medieval verbal. One find is still inspiring.
