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Title: Common Cultural Beliefs


1
What is American?
  • Common Cultural Beliefs Values
  • -list 4 beliefs

2
PERSONAL SUCCESS
  • Focus on competition and individualism
  • Success Measured by wealth and power

3
WORK ETHIC
  • Hard Work Discipline are important
  • We Are all too busy

4
MORALITY
  • A Strong Belief in right wrong
  • Belief in Charity for the less fortunate
  • Do we give?
  • http//www.philanthropy.com/stats/donors/2006/

5
Practicality Efficiency
  • Any problem can be solved through invention and
    ingenuity
  • Value self on efficiency

6
Material Comfort
  • Prosperity comes through hard work
  • Belief in scientific over mystical

7
EQUALITY DEMOCRACY
  • Equality of opportunity
  • Do we have equal opportunity?
  • Representation of citizens important

8
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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Wearing Hajib
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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.
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