The phrase "american preoccupation" is correct in terms of grammar but should be capitalized as "American preoccupation" in written English.
You can use it to refer to a specific focus or concern that is prevalent in American society or culture.
Example: "The American preoccupation with consumerism has significant implications for environmental sustainability."
Alternatives: "U.S. fixation" or "American obsession".
American cartoonist who satirized the American preoccupation with technology.
Nor is this a matter solely of individual freedom, an American preoccupation not always shared elsewhere.
Martin's art sustains that question, an American preoccupation since the New England transcendentalists, which became newly acute, in art, with Rothko, Newman, and Reinhardt.
As an anthropologist studying the contemporary American preoccupation with self-improvement, I often hear people invoke a constitutional guarantee of happiness.
The picture is about that perennial American preoccupation with male friendship, seen as a finer and stronger thing than love between men and women.
When Cherokee raids flared up in 1780 during the American preoccupation with British armed forces elsewhere, punitive action led by Colonel Arthur Campbell and Colonel John Sevier subdued the tribe again.
But as Iran has ascended the list of American preoccupations, the importance of the gap has grown.
Those are the same American preoccupations that Mr. Farrar memorably tackled with his pioneering alt-country band, Uncle Tupelo.
But once again, it was clear that American preoccupations in the war are not quite the same as those of their allies.
While sprinting around the Google alphabet, I'm alive to the great 21st-century American preoccupations: social life (Facebook, MySpace), entertainment (Netflix, YouTube, Pandora), real estate (Realtor, Zillow) and, above all, shopping.
(She seems unconcerned with many typically American preoccupations, among them liability. One scene in "Boohbah" involves children running around on a plastic, off-kilter, rainbow-hued set as it's sprayed with water from a fountain at its center).
