美国社会与文化 论文

美国社会与文化

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL REASONS FOR THE PROSPERITY OF

UNITED STATES

Historical and Political Reasons for the Prosperity of the United States

The history of modernAmerica is quite short. The USA was founded at July fourth, 1776. For a young country like America, the achievement it obtains is fairly great. Nowadays, America is the most powerful country in the whole world, and plays a crucial role in the world politics. And every political,financial andmilitary movement affects the world. So, how is it possible for a country to prosper in such a short time ,whose record history has only 236 years?

I think there may be several reasonable answers to this question.

First, Americanmainstream culture is based on Puritanism, and American adore individualism. Puritan pays a close attention to education. Universities like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, MIT, Stanford, etc. are all the top schools among the world. There are many well-known examples in which an individual succeeded something difficult, like T.A Edison, Bill Gates and many more.Besides the culture, American politics are conservative, the Federal government does not have much power on the states government, which ensures the independence of each stats. Thus the combination of culture and political environment has a direct influence on the prosperity of the country.

Second, USA covers a half North America continent. It faces the Europe across the Atlantic Ocean, the Asia across the Pacific Ocean. The adjacent countries around it are all small or less powerful countries, who do not present any threats to America. Even during the World War One, and World War Two, there has no direct conflict over the American land. The perfectlocation provides a good opportunity for USA to develop its economy, technology and military force.

America is a country of immigrants. Due to its unique location as well as its emigrant history, US has been the destination of many intelligent emigrant people, especially in the time of world war two. Albert Einstein, Enrica Fermi and many other outstanding scientists as well as thousands of skilled workers had gone to USA during that specific period of time. They together helped the country to boom.

Last but not the least, during the 1870s, America grasped the chance to industrialize provided by the Second Industrial Revolution. After the industrialization, America rose quickly and soon its GDP became a dominate figures among the world’s economy. Acentury later, the Information Technology Innovation first occurred in USA. This time, America secured its domination over the world by developing highly advanced technology involving nuclear tech, astronautical technology, computer science.

To conclude, the special cultural and historical backgrounds make Americathe country which appreciates freedom, independenceprivacy and skills, and a country the final paradise for American dream seekers. Despite the itsgeographical position, and proper policies and the culture diversity together with the chance from the second and third industrial revolution made America the only superpower country worldwide. Secured , it is hardworking and perseverancethat leadAmericanpeople to theirprosperity.