美国文化价值观念

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AMERICAN VALUES
最能体现美国文化和价值观的句子
• Always a day late and a dollar short.
A criticism of a person who never succeeds. The failures may not bed rastic but the pattern of small failures is annoying to others, especially in two areas that Americans value as highly as time and money.
AMERICAN VALUES
最能体现美国文化和价值观的句子
• Don't put the cart before the horse.
Do things in a sensible order. For example, do something to impress your boss before you ask for a raise in pay. Don't ask for the raise first.
AMERICAN VALUES
最能体现美国文化和价值观的句子
• If you can't beat them, join them.
If you cannot compete successfully with a person or a group, stop competing and go join them. Then you can share in their success.
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
7、求变 Change is good. Change is progress.
美国人对待变化的态度是:Accept the change, and make the most of it.
— mobile race — nation on the move
AMERICAN VALUES
最能体现美国文化和价值观的句子
• We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
We will not discuss or worry about a future problem. If and when the problem becomes urgent, we will deal with it.
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
8、惜时如金 Value Time
Time is of utmost importance to most Americans. Americans are more concerned with getting things accomplished on time than they are with developing interpersonal relations.
AMERICAN VALUES
最能体现美国文化和价值观的句子
• The end justifies the means.
It does not matter how you succeed. Any method is all right if it works for you. This proverb is not always accepted. Often one hears the opposite," the end doesn't justifies the means."
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
5、追求财富 Seeking the wealth/Achieve material success
Acquiring and maintaining a large number of material possessions is of great importance to most Americans. They give a higher priority to obtaining, maintaining, and protecting material objects than they do in developing and enjoying relationships with people. Americans pay a price for their material wealth: hard work.
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
1、个性自由或张扬个性 Individual Freedom
Individualism leads to privacy, which Americans see as desirable. The word privacy does not exist in many non-Western languages. If It does, it is likely to have a negative connotation, suggesting loneliness or forced isolation. It is not uncommon for Americans to say, and almost to believe: "If I don’t have half an hour a day to myself, I go stark-raving mad!"
Eight Values of Americans
1、个性自由或张扬个性 Individual Freedom
By individual freedom, American mean the desire and the ability of all individuals to control their own destiny without outside force from the government, a ruling noble class.
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
6、敬业进取 Hard Work
Hard work has been necessary and rewarding. Only by hard work could they achieve material success.
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
3、机会平等 Equality of opportunities
They do not mean that everyone is or should be equal. However, they do mean each individual should have an equal chance for success. For them equality means that everyone should have an equal chance to enter the race and win.
AMERICAN VALUES
最能体现美国文化和价值观的句子
• One thing at a time.
Concentration leads to success. The person who tires to do too many things at once may fail at all of them.
AMERICAN VALUES
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• You can't argue with success.
Though you may tell someone they are doing something in a wrong way, you have to stop criticizing them if their method works.
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
2、自力更生 Self-reliance
Americans believe that individual must learn to rely on themselves or risk losing freedom. This means achieving both financial and emotional independence from their parents as early as possible.
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
8、惜时如金 Value Time
on准时
kept赶上
saved节约
used用掉的
wasted浪费掉的 lost失去的
planned计划的 given给定的
made the most of 充分利用
filled安排满的 spent花掉的 gained赢得的 kill虚度
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
4、竞争意识 Competition
Americans believe that competition brings out the best in any individual and in any system. This value is reflected in the American economic system of free enterprise. Learning to compete successfully is a part of growing up. 60 percent of Americans believe competition and the desire to win are healthy and desirable.
AMERICAN VALUES
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• All's fair in love and war.
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
3、机会平等 Equality of opportunities
What do Americans mean when they say they believe in equality of opportunities?
AMERICAN VALUES
美国价值观
Differences
Different Values Between Americans and Chinese
Chinese
Americans
• 金钱
1
• 变化
• 家庭
• 时间
2
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• 爱情
• 挑战
3
• 工作
• 机遇
4
• 学历
• others
5
AMERICAN VALUES
AMERICAN VALUES
最能体现美国文化和价值观的句子
• Nothing succeeds like success.
Like money in a savings account, success seems to compound itself. A person who has a small success expects it to be followed by a bigger one.
AMERICAN VALUES
Eight Values of Americans
6、敬业进取 Hard Work
The first question people often ask when they meet each other in the U.S. is related to work: "What do you do?" "Where do you work?" or "Who (what company) are you with?"
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