Part 2 Culture and Values

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Part 2 Culture and Values
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A Land of Diversity

• In what ways is the U.S.A. a land of diversity?
• climate geography

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• population
• 83 white / 12 black / 5 Asian
• 12 Hispanic

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• the ways of speaking acting
• personalities
• New Englanders stern and self-reliant
• Southerners gracious and leisurely
• Westerners casual and friendly

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The Meaning of Democracy

• What is the meaning of the expression majority
  rule? How does it relate to American democracy?
• representatives
• based on majority rule / protect minority rights
• freedom of speech
• freedom of religion
• freedom from unreasonable search and arrest

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Try it Youll like it

• Englishman a person who does things because
  they have been done before
• American a person who does things because
  they havent been done before
• pioneering spirit / spirit of adventure

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• Hurry, hurry, hurry
• Are Americans materialistic?
• straight talk

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Religions in American Life

• legal guarantees of religious freedom
• separation of church and state
• There is a God, but that people are free to
  believe in God or not and are free to worship in
  whatever way they choose.

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Major American Religions

• 57 Protestant
• more than 200 different denominations
• United Methodists / Baptists / Lutherans /
  Presbyterians / Episcopalians
• the Mormons
• the Christian Scientists

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• 28 Catholic
• 2 Jewish

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American Education

• The First 12 Years
• formal schooling 616
• 85 elementary and high school in public school
• free of charge
• neighborhood schools
• co-educational
• most locally controlled (Board of Education)
• secular
• private schools (parochial secular)