California is a state of America, thus it is understandable that your viewpoint would be one of the typical blond, English-speaking American. But the state has also been considered as the ‘true melting pot of different races, different cultures’. California is probably the most open, and most easily accessed of all the states in America, so it is not a big wonder to have most of the Californians to be non-100% American, inexplicably open-minded, and readily accepting of any change, big or small, whether for lifestyle, taste or even political.

In terms of political beliefs, the Californians tend to be the most liberal, most free, and most (as mentioned) open-minded of the whole country. We can also attribute it to the diversity of culture, which makes all the citizens willingly accepting of change and new ideas. Alternative lifestyle is nodded upon, religion is not a big issue, but environmental concerns are. It’s a rather surreal culture that most Americans from other states sometimes undergo “culture shock”.

And why not? While most are not accepting to other languages except to our mother tongue, Californians have a wide spectrum of understanding. Spanish is second, Chinese near the Bay Area and Korean in Los Angeles.

California has been the world central, and hub; for movies, art and music thanks to Hollywood. Hollywood produces not just films but “THE” films. Films that are generally published, circulated and shown around the world. Films whose budgets sometimes go over the annual income of a third-world country. These are the types of films Hollywood makes. Some flop, but mostly, everything else makes big money.

Surfing and skateboarding culture all originated from California. From the slang words, ‘gnarly’ ‘tubular’, and ‘mondo’; to the biggest skateboarding contests and legendary Tony Hawk residing here, it is no doubt still the central hub of America in terms of dexterity sports. Even wind surfing is starting to shape up to be another hit for the beach goers of California.