Cultural Values And The American Culture

Asian Americans are a diverse group of people who are among the fastest growing minority groups in the United States. Despite their minority status, they often surpass Whites in America and do so while holding on to their cultural values regarding family, education, and success.

Another challenge occurs when emotional influences over the decision-making process, which may over shadow the importance of personal values in the process, pose as another challenge. Emmerling (2003) states that the emotions felt during the decision-making process can have an effect on the number of alternatives, amount of effort people are willing to invest, and people's willingness to take risks.

Individualism is often viewed as a positive trait in America, suggesting a certain level of personal confidence. American society tends to reward independent thinkers and those who decide autonomously. To this end, individuality has become a value in many American homes. Although individualism is widely received and respected in American culture, it is not as well respected in other cultures. One culture in particular which frowns on individualism is the Asian culture.

American Lore is just like any other lore it has myths, legends, and fairy tales, but American lore shows the history of America and how we live today, with a twist to the story. With Legends, myths, and fairy tales it expresses the way americans think and how creative we can be to come up with these stories from things that could actually happen. Legends are based on historical facts Myths are based on religion and gods and goddesses. Fairy Tales are made believe not real, includes special creatures. Tall tales and legends are more based in American lore and is heavily based on history and the many traditional stories that are spread from generation to generation. American lore is based on, “power social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources. Achievement which is a personal success through demonstrating competence according to social standards . Hedonism pleasure or sensuous

The editorial “Time to Assert American Values” by the New York Times Editorial staff argues no country has the right to punish its citizens with torture. The first concession its “Western countries value the individual above society; in Asia,he said, the good of society is deemed more important than individual liberties.” The writer concede that one country cannot control the actions of another independent country. The writer argues “dissidents,democrats, and reforms’ do not represent their culture, and therefore, deserve the oppressive punishments and suppressed individual rights” they experience.The second concession is “Americans are committing and active culture arrogance.”This means that they are doing unfair stuff. The writer argues

American values are seen in different ways by different people and cultures. Some people view American values as religion, culture, and customs. There are some American values that have changed to make things better and there are some that will never change no matter the situation. A value that has changed is freedom and the right of equality. There are two documents that can support this statement and one of them is known as “Common Sense “which was written by Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine was a pro-American writer and author of some of the most persuasive documents of the American Revolution. One document that he was famous for was “Common Sense.” This document argued for American independence from Great Britain and for a republican form of government as superior to hereditary monarchy. This was one very persuasive document that was written and had an extraordinary impact on colonies. (“Thomas Paine.”, edited by Paul Lauter, The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 2006, PP 1046.).

Think about what we’ve studied in ENGG 1100. What are some things Americans values in their culture? Why?

I grew up in a small town, which was highly populated with individuals of Basque descent. My grandfather severed in the military and was stationed in Basque Country. Despite the large Basque population surrounding me, I knew very little of the culture and traditions commonly found within the Basque Country. “The homeland of the Basque people, commonly called the Basque Country, is located on the Bay of Biscay at the western end of the Pyrenees mountain range, straddling the border of France and Spain. The nearly 8,000-square-mile Basque Country is divided into seven administrative districts, four in Spain and three in France. Basque culture is distinctive from that of the rest of Spain in many ways” (Thomas, par. 1). This assignment has allowed me the privilege to interview and spend time with Maria Begona Narvaiza-Peck. I was able to experience the Basque culture through conversation, photographs, museum, and meals.

The Individualism is important for the American values because the individualism supports the pursuit of one's aim and willingness while as will value independence and self-trust and advocate that advantage of the individual must achieve priority over the nation or a public group. Besides, the Americans don't really care about their traditions, they just do what they think that is right. Not just the traditions, they even don't care about their parent's opinion, for example, if they want to marry someone they don’t get the permission from anyone they just do it. Americans live the moment without being careful or even think if it was good with the traditions and families to do that, like having a tattoo as an example. Moreover, Americans are

In modern day American culture; American citizens have become ignorant to many issues that affect people globally. Unless it seems to directly affect them people tend to be completely apathetic to gaining new knowledge of foreign occurrences, and why would they? America has fallen into an age of egocentrism in which it fails to consider the problems many people globally face, those issues which are considered unimportant or irrelevant by media sources country-wide. The ineptitude of Americas populous on issues of foreign economical and geopolitical matters is astounding. While our focus has been so concentrated in places where we are not needed, and have been repeatedly told we are not wanted, there have been many in need that have been brushed over.

American ethnical values are built upon the respect for the dignity of every human life, the hunger for discovery, the ability to maintain harmony with others and nature, establishing a government built for the people, and ran by the people. These ethnical values have been the basis for American culture since the beginning and they continue to make an impact and grow in today’s society. The Iroquois Indians had a very open and accepting democratic society that involved everyone, including the women which wasn’t very prevalent in culture at this time. Compared to the Puritan society which didn’t have strong leadership or a healthy working government, Puritan society also looked down upon women. The Puritans saw other people as an inconvenience,

This paragraph relates to the social interaction and described in the Chapter 3 about language and Chapter 5 that include group and social structure. We can see the characteristic of social interaction among persons, means response to someone behavior and can reflect the norms an values of the dominant culture and our socialization experiences within that culture (page 106). The social reality reflects a group’s power within a society and they are who define the values in that society. In Manchester we observed a diverse culture that has interaction between them and with people out of their own boundaries. That is why maintain respect to the values and norms of the American culture. In relation to the cultural variation we identify the language

To be an American is to have Values and Beliefs of your own, as well and Rights and Freedoms that you are given. Living in America, and being an American provides you with opportunities that if you lived elsewhere you may not have. America is a place of diversity, opportunity, and most importantly Freedom.

American culture refers to the traditions and practices of the people of the United States. Culture comprises of the nature of buildings, religion, music language and marriage. The population of the United States is more than 320 million people making it the most culturally diverse country in the globe. Books such as Crabgrass Frontier, Manifest Destination and Muscular Christianity are important sources of information about American culture. This paper is a reflection on the methods that these books use in providing information about the evolution of the US culture. The paper examines the relationship between these three sources and ways they challenge or inform an understanding of the American society during the late 19th and early 20th century. There is an analysis of the efficiency of the issues tackled by these books in influencing the contemporary discourse surrounding American culture. The major argument of this paper is that Crabgrass Frontier, Manifest Destination and Muscular Christianity provide reliable information about the evolution of the US culture and they supplement each other through the use of relevant examples.

Understanding the differences and similarities inherent in other cultures may provide opportunities when working with individuals (or groups) who may have very different or similar cultural values. Through the work of many people, more is known about other cultures’ values than perhaps ever before. Geert Hofstede is one of these people, and his work has allowed for a greater understanding of cultural values across a wide range of dimensions. His work has grown from four dimensions to six, and as more information is gathered this will perhaps increase as well. In the first section, the first four dimensions of cultural values will be discussed briefly. Next, all six dimensions will be given for the United States (US) and Japan, and will be considered according to the highest and lowest differences between dimensions of these two countries’ cultural values. In addition, considerations for applying motivational theories toward individuals from these two countries will also be discussed. Lastly, a single dimension will be selected for each country and a recommendation given accordingly that could help improve performance.