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American Values And Assumption By Althen

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1 According to the reading “American Values and Assumption,” the author Althen mentioned American values and Assumption that include individualism, privacy, equality, informality, time and so on. I think the most important thing to understand about U.S. culture is individualism. Americans trained their children to learn independence early because they think it can improve personal capacities for their children. 2 The author Althen used examples to prove that the individualism is one of the cross-cultural difference. Because of people from other countries, they usually couldn’t understand why Americans trains their children are helping kids’ learn to solve problem. In addition, Americans have different concept of time. They focus on personal
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