Franciscan Values In America

According to the textbook, values are “ideas held by individuals or groups about what is desirable, proper, good, and bad. What individuals value is strongly influenced by the specific culture in which they happen to live” (Applebaum, Carr, Duneier, & Giddens, 2017, p. 43). Put simply, values are like a code of behavior that provide individuals or groups with the ability to know what is acceptable and what is not, as well as judgement of what is important in life. Some groups have certain values that contradict themselves. For example, the United States of America values Equality, but also values Racism and Group Superiority. Some subgroups have values that hold some similarities to those of the large group. For example, certain Franciscan Values are similar to the Core Values of the United States of America: Equality and Fostering Peace and Justice are two values held by these two groups that are similar. Despite the similarities of the values held by the United States of America and the Franciscans’ there

America originally had twelve Core Values, but three more were added by James Henslin in 1975. The fifteen Core American Values are: Individualism, Achievement and Success, Activity and Work, Efficiency and Practicality, Science and Technology, Progress, Material Comfort, Humanitarianism, Freedom, Democracy, Equality, Racism and Group Superiority, Education, Religiosity, and Romantic Love (Handout, 2018). The three Franciscan Values and three Core American Values that will be talked about in this essay are Reverence the unique dignity of each person and Racism and Group Superiority; Serve one another, society, and the Church and Achievement and Success; and Foster Peace and Justice and