Sydney Sweeney Becomes Symbol of a US Cultural Shift
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Our culture in the United States is changing. Whether it’s in film, fashion, or even just social discourse, the previous narratives based around identity politics are fading away. A recent focal point of this shift has been on an American Eagle ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. Despite online criticism, the company refused to back away from its advertisement, and now even President Donald Trump has weighed in.
Even officials who used to come out strongly in support of defunding the police, or who made statements criticizing the police, are now changing their narratives. And this includes Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, Zohran Mamdani.
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| 0:00.0 | The culture in the United States is changing. |
| 0:03.0 | Whether it's film, fashion, or even just social discourse, |
| 0:06.0 | the former narratives on identity politics are fading away. |
| 0:10.0 | A recent focal point of this shift has been on an American Eagle ad featuring actress Sidney Sweeney. |
| 0:15.0 | And meanwhile, SCOTUS is looking to weigh in on race-based redistricting. And also for the first time in 50 years, |
| 0:23.4 | the United States now has negative migration. I'll be talking about these topics and more today. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
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| 0:55.8 | Now the culture in the United States is changing pretty drastically to say the least actually. |
| 1:03.0 | This is for film, look at the movies right now. |
| 1:06.0 | You have kind of the fading out of the remnants of movies that were created or started a few |
| 1:10.5 | years back, |
| 1:11.4 | but they're transitioning to something very different right now. |
| 1:14.0 | Fashion is changing, even just social discourse, is undergoing a really massive change right now. |
| 1:19.8 | The former narratives on identity politics are dying. They're fading away. |
| 1:25.6 | A recent focal point of this shift has been on an American Eagle ad |
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