American Freedom

The formation of American society traces its roots back to the fifteenth century when capital of Ohio discovered the existence of unknown land on this way to India. Since that magazine many an otherwise(prenominal) people from all over the world hasten been victorious refuge in the USA escaping from political or apparitional persecution. It has caterpillar track to step upstanding ethnic diversity where human skin color varies from nigrify, brown, and black to red and yellow. Depending on their background former raw(a)comers who have become ancestors of new American generations are called African Americans, Asian Americans, Russian Americans, and so onObviously, highly mentioned representatives of worlds cultures have their own political and religious preferences that have resulted in an increasing consequence of different confessions (Buddhists, Catholics, Muslims, etc. ) and parties (Democrats, Communists, Republicans, Socialists, etc. ). However, American nation is char acterized by the following distinct features common to overwhelming majority of people Privacy and individualisation are the most important aspects of social independence all Americans honour the most.Since their childhood Americans have been taught to consider themselves as independent part of a nation, social group, family, etc. They are used to make their own decisivenesss provided at the same time may seldom admit that on that point exist a number of external factors that greatly influence their decision making skills stereotypes, mass media, social institutions, etc. They reject the idea of being similar to anybody else as they always strive to be different and unique.Newly mystifyd immigrants or those who accept Americans as guests from abroad may get a give away picture of American culture and deeper insight into their beliefs and values solo recognizing their lawful belief in freedom and self-reliance. The majority of Americans believe that in grade to survive in modern world of commercialization and skim the cream off off one should be free, independent, and self-reliant in terms of thoughts and decisions. This impulse is also closely associated with how Americans treat their parents.More often than not, they show less lettered relationships with family members than other representatives of any other culture. They believe that biological/historical fortune that brought together the parents and the child reach their purpose during childs raising and adolescence after which the parent/child relationships decline and grow weaker. In just well-nigh cases the connection may be totally lost especially pickings into consideration the fact of vast territory of the country.Privacy is another part of American identity which is of great value when people want to psychologically refill themselves or grow their time to think about life situation, etc. How Americans perceive themselves? Typically, living in the USA its citizens never see themselv es as representatives of their own country. Instead, they would rather compare themselves to people who are different from others careless(predicate) of the fact whether their competitors are of American or foreign origin.Many Americans make statements byword that their culture is not distinct enough to find out as they much visualize culture as a number of random traditions on the surface of society which can be distinct and common only in other cultures. Separate Americans sometimes believe that they established their priorities by themselves, rather than having had their thoughts and the considerations on which they are founded obtruded on them by their own culture. When asked to describe common features of American culture the majority of Americans fail to give a descent answer in some cases even rejecting the idea of American culture as a notion.Meanwhile, some Americans may gladly stub out their generalized their opinions about different groups and subcommunities within t heir own culture. Southerners have stereotypic views (generalized, simplified notions) about Northerners, and the other way round. There exists a wide-cut range of traditionally set views about people from the country, from big cities, from inland, from the coasts, from the Southeast, religious and ethnic groups and those who live in Oregon, Texas, Big Apple, California, Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, etc. Materialism and Achievement. She is a hard- operative person, one American may express his/her opinion towards another person, or he does his job well. These phrases denote the usual Americans evaluate for people who approaches a task thoroughly and persistently, brining it to a victorious finale. In addition, these phrases also denote respect for achievers, those people who do their best and confide much effort to achieve their goals. Foreigners frequently have a speck that American people achievement harder than people from abroad expect them to work.(More in all probability these visitors have been extremely subjective to American mass media production such(prenominal) as movies and TV programs which would typically show audience less working people but to a greater extent of those who hang out and chill out driving cars and having dates). Regardless of the fact that some of the Protestant professional value-system may have lost some of its influence on Americans, there is still a strong faith that the perfect person essential be a hard worker. A hard worker gets everything castigate in terms of his/her deadline, organizational skills, high standards of quality.Typically, Americans are keen on action. They really believe it is vital to devote much energy to their work or to other daily routine responsibilities. Moreover, they do believe they should be occupied most of the time. They are typically not satisfied, as representatives from many other cultures are, only to sit and have a clack with other people. They get bored and loose patience. They think they should be occupied with something, or at least make plans and arrangements for future. Directness and Assertiveness.Americans, as has been indicated above, normally presume themselves as sincere, open-minded, and solid in their relationships with other people. Americans willing often talk openly and straightly to others about things they do not alike(p). They will make attempts to do so in a style they call constructive, which means a style which the other person will not accept as offensive or improper. If they do not talk sincerely about what is on their thoughts, they will frequently communicate their reaction in signed way (no words, only facial expressions, body positions, and gestures).They are not aware, unalike people from many Asian countries are, that they are supposed to mask or sometimes hide their emotional reaction. Their phrases, the tone of their voice, or their facial expressions will to a greater extent often than not show when their feelings of an ger, unhappiness, confusion, or happiness. They think it is very well to show these feelings at least within limits. The majority of Asians feel discomfit around Americans who are showing a strong emotional solvent to something.On the other hand, Latinos and Arabs are usually inclined to exhibit their emotions more frankly than Americans do, and to consider Americans as unemotional and cold. However, Americans are frequently less straight and open than they recognize it. There exist in fact many restrictions on their desire to discuss things honestly. Regardless of these limitations, Americans are usually more direct and sincere than people from many other cultures. They normally do not try to hide their emotions and are much less mad with face avoiding awkwardness to themselves or others.To them, being open is typically more important than preserving harmony in interpersonal relationships. Americans use the words imperative or hostile to illustrate a person who is overly as sertive in expressing thoughts or making requests. The line between acceptable self-assertiveness and unacceptable aggressiveness is difficult to draw. For American culture, time is a resource, like water or coal, which can be used properly or poorly. Time is money. You only get so much time in life, so use it wisely. The future will not be change comparing to the past or the present, as Americans are used to take things, unless people use their time for constructive and promising activities. Therefore, Americans admire a hard-working organized people who write down things to be done and a schedule for doing them. The ideal person must be punctual (i. e. arrive at the scheduled time for event) and is considerate of other peoples time (that is, does not waste peoples time with discourse or other activity with no visible, beneficial outcome). References Brown, J. (2006). Americans. New York poke Books.