What are the symbols of group identity in the United States? Are they good or bad in your opinion?

Symbols of group identity often pertain to foodstuffs (such as the critical evolution of wheat, corn, and the animals consumed) and cultural symbols such as literacy. What one eats, where one lives, and how one expresses one's self-reflects one's cultural associations -- whether a society was a hunter-gatherer or agrarian in ancient times, and in the United States today. For example -- is a person prosperous and can select a variety of foods from the local market, like a sushi-eating urbanite, or is he or she forced to eat cheap...

This can create group unity but can also act as forms of group division, even while most Americans rally behind such cultural symbols of freedom as the flag.
Works Cited

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, Steel. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 199