One import from China took the country by storm: mah-jongg. As the game began to outsell even the radio, American entrepaneurs tried to take advantage of the situation by selling bones to manufacturing companies to make pieces, creating guide-books, and Chinese-Americans often received money from people so they could teach them the ins and outs of the game.

The 20’s was a period of vocal fads with everything from new styles of music, like jazz, to slang reaching the ears of Americans. The work of Freud became popular as well, although the majority of his phillosophies that reached the general public were by that time distorted. Personality typing, the analysis of ones personality by measuring their response to 40 questions, became really popular. Many critics, as well as Freud himself, thought that the attention that his principles recieved was actually a liability. His sexual theories in particular earned him scorn from a large group of people.

Dance Crazes were all the rage in the 20’s. Some of the more notable ones were the Charleston, the Shimmy, and the Black Bottom. Dance marathons, as well as feats of endurance in general, were popular. One of the strangest of this group was flagpole sitting, where a person sat on top of a flagpole and tried to remain there for as long as they could. The longest sitting of the 20’s was done by Alvin Kelly, the creator of the fad. He sat on top of a pole for 49 days straight.