Cultural icon

[2] In popular culture and elsewhere, the term "iconic" is used to describe a wide range of people, places, and things.

[citation needed] According to the Canadian Journal of Communication, academic literature has described all of the following as "cultural icons": Shakespeare, Oprah, Batman, Anne of Green Gables, the Cowboy, the 1960s female pop singer, the horse, Las Vegas, the library, the Barbie doll, DNA, and the New York Yankees.

[9] In the former Soviet Union, the hammer and sickle symbol and statues of Vladimir Lenin instead represented the country's most prominent cultural icons.

Thus an apple pie is a cultural icon of the United States, but its significance varies among Americans.

National icons can become targets for those opposing or criticising a regime, for example, crowds destroying statues of Lenin in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism[10] or burning the American flag to protest US actions abroad.

Mount Fuji is commonly used as a cultural icon of Japan .
A red telephone box is a British cultural icon. [ 3 ]