Common Cultural Beliefs

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What is American?

• Common Cultural Beliefs Values
• -list 4 beliefs

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PERSONAL SUCCESS

• Focus on competition and individualism
• Success Measured by wealth and power

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WORK ETHIC

• Hard Work Discipline are important
• We Are all too busy

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MORALITY

• A Strong Belief in right wrong
• Belief in Charity for the less fortunate
• Do we give?
• http//www.philanthropy.com/stats/donors/2006/

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Practicality Efficiency

• Any problem can be solved through invention and
  ingenuity
• Value self on efficiency

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Material Comfort

• Prosperity comes through hard work
• Belief in scientific over mystical

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EQUALITY DEMOCRACY

• Equality of opportunity
• Do we have equal opportunity?
• Representation of citizens important

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FREEDOM

• Individual rights are more important than group
  affiliation
• Clip- http//www.camden.rutgers.edu/wood/Video/vt
  -baseball.htm
• (cultural diffusion)
• Personal Choices are valued

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Superiority of American Culture

• Ethnocentrism belief in the superiority of ones
  owns culture.
• The interpretation of the practices of another
  culture in terms of the meanings of ones own
  culture
• Disgusting Foodclip

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American Values Material and Nonmaterial Penny
Culture

• Can you find element of material and nonmaterial
  culture in a penny
• List 4 for each.