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Photography itself in this thesis is not regarded as an element of art, but also as a science. Photography is a momentary snapshot of an image, whereas the subject of photography lives beyond just being a symbol, either in printed, or an electronic version. An example of this phenomenon is a dictionary, which is also a snapshot taken momentarily of a language. Language and culture are both considered as living organisms, needing constantly to be documented and re-documented. Photography in this thesis is looked upon as a symbol, like graphemes completing the image of the letters, which the reader of this very text can consider as a symbol itself. Just as "spoken words are symbols of mental experience and written words are the symbols of spoken words," (Aristotle) then symbols can be in the form of a written document, can be in a form of a recorded medium -- phonemes, graphemes, lexemes or simply photography, an image, that is considered a symbol of Silenceme (Debaprasad Bandyopahyay).Photography as an art and science does not document or take place outside the Universe. The subject, the topic and the essence of photography takes place within our society. When sociolinguistics examines and documents almost all societal phenomena, dealing with bicultural issues in the society it is not descriptive enough visually to show the big picture of biculturalism in words alone, it describes it in hundreds of words. In this thesis, the main focus is emphasized on cultural, bicultural -- in some cases, multicultural -- images.This thesis is written having one and only one thing in mind to show the bicultural differences, turbulences and shock waves, caused by the subject of "the American Dream," where bicultural and bilingual effects are brought together in photography. The benefit of this thesis is self-explanatory, where no argument is needed to support it.As long as human beings move from place to place, the bicultural and bilingual picture will always be present, getting eve