Aha, I had to look it up. The creation of "cultural studies" happened in the UK (not just by the English) in the 1970s. Here's part of the wiki description:
In the United Kingdom, sociologists and other scholars influenced by Marxism such as Stuart Hall (1932–2014) and Raymond Williams (1921–1988) developed cultural studies. Following nineteenth-century Romantics, they identified "culture" with consumption goods and leisure activities (such as art, music, film, food, sports, and clothing). Nevertheless, they saw patterns of consumption and leisure as determined by relations of production, which led them to focus on class relations and the organization of production.[32][33]
In the United States, cultural studies focuses largely on the study of popular culture; that is, on the social meanings of mass-produced consumer and leisure goods. Richard Hoggart coined the term in 1964 when he founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies or CCCS.[34] It has since become strongly associated with Stuart Hall,[35] who succeeded Hoggart as Director.[36] Cultural studies in this sense, then, can be viewed as a limited concentration scoped on the intricacies of consumerism, which belongs to a wider culture sometimes referred to as "Western civilization" or "globalism."
From the 1970s onward, Stuart Hall's pioneering work, along with that of his colleagues Paul Willis, Dick Hebdige, Tony Jefferson, and Angela McRobbie, created an international intellectual movement. As the field developed, it began to combine political economy, communication, sociology, social theory, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, cultural anthropology, philosophy, museum studies, and art history to study cultural phenomena or cultural texts. In this field researchers often concentrate on how particular phenomena relate to matters of ideology, nationality, ethnicity, social class, and/or gender.[37] Cultural studies is concerned with the meaning and practices of everyday life. These practices comprise the ways people do particular things (such as watching television, or eating out) in a given culture. It also studies the meanings and uses people attribute to various objects and practices. Specifically, culture involves those meanings and practices held independently of reason. Watching television in order to view a public perspective on a historical event should not be thought of as culture, unless referring to the medium of television itself, which may have been selected culturally; however, schoolchildren watching television after school with their friends in order to "fit in" certainly qualifies, since there is no grounded reason for one's participation in this practice.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture#EtymologyFwiw, the wiki points out that the modern anthropological definition of culture comes from Franz Boas (an American), who wrote about it in the 20s. Here's a thesis on the subject
https://web.archive.org/web/20170102111 ... s/boas.pdfFwiw2, my doctorate is in English and American literature and language. It's not that I have anything against the English or English culture.
"A man is rich when he has time and freewill. How he chooses to invest both will determine the return on his investment."
When it comes to "culture," ya gotta say that the French (Normans) brought table manners to the Anglo-Saxons. That's why we (English speakers) eat pork and beef rather than pig and cow. It's why you use forks. It's why 65% of your vocabulary has Latin or French origins.