The American Character

3.the spirit of liberty
In the mind of American, liberty means individualism. They pay much attention to their own personal rights and personal living space. In most American families, little children have their own bedrooms. Most American parents think that they should knock at the door before entering their children’ bedrooms. Usually, Americans will make a call in advance before they go to visit their friends or relatives.
10.try something new
The courage to try something new has been an American characteristic since colonial times. Those who disapprove of the laws and policies established by their representatives may openly express their disapproval and try to elect new representatives to carry out their wishes. The typical American believed in trying something new in an attempt to make life better. They will change their jobs to suit themselves better.
5.pay much attention to other’s impression on them
Americans like making many friends and get along well with all of them , because they want to give others a good impression. However, they lack close friends or confidants. They may feel like old friends at the first meeting, but forget you after a week.
because they don’t want to disturb others even though they are quite familiar with them. In American’s opinion, a family only include parents and children. Americans don’t like others interfering with their business. Besides, they don’t talk personal affairs with others. If asked their incomes, ages, marriages, or religious beliefs, Americans will feel very embarrassed and unhappy.
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9. sense of competition
Americans who love competition, if you have a car, then I try to have two, even if only one, then the brand name than hello. Comparisons is the force of competition. Companies often give employees a fair playing field. From top to bottom, everyone in the competitive position of the stage are equal.
7. Give priority to work with due consideration to play
It is true that Americans as a whole work hard. But they also play hard. They spend more time and money in traveling, camping, hunting, watching sports, drinking, smoking, going to movies, watching television and reading newspapers and magazines than any other people in the world. Yet they also spend more money on churches, social services, hospitals and all kinds of charities. They are always in a hurry, yet they spend more time relaxing.
b. Materialism
the American habitually seeks ways of letting off steam. His towns are full of bowling alleys, golf clubs, tennis courts, clubs, lodges, churches and associations into which he pours energy both physical and mental.
The American Character
1.Success as a goal and materialism are among the underlying factors that make up the American Character.
a. success as a goal
One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation upon success. A good many things contributed to this accent on success. For example, there was the Puritan belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of God's love. All over America the lawyers, doctors, professors and politicians with Italian, Irish, German or Polish names testify to the urgency of success.
4. the spirit of independence
American children begin to sleep in another room when they are six months old. Every morning, you can see a boy around eleven or twelve-year-old, handing out newspapers door to door. What’s more, some little girls go to neighbour’s house to look after their children. We can see the vast majority of American grownups choose their own life, their professional career, choose their own fiancé e['fi:ɑ:nsei] or fiance.
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a. Money is rarely cherished for itself in America; it is rather a symbol and a tool. Look at the Who's Who entry for any prominent business man, and you are likely to find him involved in an amazing number of committees and associations organized for the public good.
6. desire to start a new life in a new place
They are easily adaptable to a new environment, so the desire to start a new life in a new place is noticeable throughout the nation. About 40 million Americans change residences every year. The average American moves fourteen times in his life time, compared to five moves for the average Japanese. The highly mobile American society leaves individuals with feeling of rootless, isolation, indifference to community welfare and shallow personal relationships.
2.the spirit of pioneering
In the mid-nineteenth century, the pioneering spirit led American settlers to travel westward by the thousands in search of land and gold. This movement has never ceased.
8. humor
The sense of humor is often the most revealing aspect of a culture. Surely humor has never been valued more highly in any civilization than in America. The minister uses it in his sermons, the doctor in his healing, the lawyer in his pleading, the teacher in his teaching. Mark Twain, in many ways our most representative writer, is admired not so much because of his skill at picturing American life as for his humor.