American Culture

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1) How much can you learn about “melting pot” ? Why has the USA been called “melting pot” ?
- “Melting pot” is a place for mixing races, religions, languages, customs, etc. On the another word, “melting pot” is a place where people from many different countries all over the world come to live in.
- The United Sates has often been called “melting pot” because its citizens are immigrants who came to the USA from many different countries all over the world and become one people with a common culture and a common loyaty. The immigrants come to the USA and bring with them their languages, religions, traditions, customs from their homeland so it is said that the USA is the nation of immigrants. Every immigrant can find his place in the USA because of its varieties of climate, geography, people, culture, languages, religions, personalities and lifestyles. The USA has a greater diversity of racial, ethnic, cultural and religions group than any other nations in the world.
2) What are traditional American values ? How do these values affect the Americans characters ?
* What are traditional American values ?
There are six basic traditional American values which is grouped in three pairs :
1. Individual freedom and Self - reliance.
2. Equality of opportunity and Competition.
3. Material wealth and Work hard.
There is a mutual relation in each pair of values :
- For their individual freedom, Americans have to be self-reliant, and on the contrary, because they are self-reliant, they have their individual freedom.
- For equality of opportunity, Americans have to accept competition, and on the contrary, because they are ready to accept competition, they have equality of opportunity.
- For their material wealth, Americans have to work hard, and because of their working hard, they have their material wealth .

* How do those values affect the Americans characters ?
- Americans believe that all people maybe not equal i...