How Americans See Themselves
Americans do not usually see themselves, whenthey are in the United States, as representatives of their country. They seethemselves as individuals who are different from all other individuals, whetherthose others are Americans or foreigners. Americans may say they have noculture, since they often think of culture as an overlay of customs to be foundonly in other countries. Individual Americans may think they chose their ownvalues, rather than having had their value forced on them by the society inwhich they were born. If you ask them to tell you something about Americanculture, they may be unable to answer and they may even deny that there is anAmerican culture.
Because they think they are responsible asindividuals for having chosen their basic values and their way of life, manyAmericans dont like generalizations others make about them. Generalizationsdisturb Americans. They may be unhappy with the thought that they hold certainideas and act in certain way simply because they were born and raised in theUnited States, and not because they had consciously thought about those ideasand ways of doing things and chosen the ones they preferred.
At the sametime, Americans will readily generalize about various subgroups within their owncountry. Northerners have fixed views about Southerners, and vice versa.There are fixed views of people from the country and people from the city;peoplefrom the coasts and people from inland;people from the Midwest;minority ethnicgroups;Texas;New Yorkers;Californians;and so on.
Therefore, Americans seefew generalizations that can safely be made about them in part because they areso individualistic and in part because they think regional and other kinds ofdifferences clearly distinguish Americans of various groups from each other.
31 Americans, when in the United States, see themselves as
Arepresentatives of their country.
B people different from person toperson.
C individuals much the same as foreigners.
D individualsthat share the same values and way of life.
32 Americans may think thatAmerican culture
A does not really exist.
B is better than othercultures.
C is different from other cultures.
D is highly valuedaround the world.
33 Individual Americans may think that theirvalues
A are based on their personal choices.
B are forced on themby the society in which they were born.
C can also be found in othercultures.
D should be recognized the world over.
34 Americans aredisturbed by generalizations others make about them because
A differentAmericans have different sources of origin.
B not all Americans were bornand raised in the U. S.
C American culture has not been thoroughlystudied.
D they, as individuals, do not have the same ideas and ways ofdoing things.
35 Which of the following statements is true?
AAmericans do not like to make generalizations about themselves on the basis ofregional differences.
B Americans have fixed ideas about different peoplecoming from different regions and areas within their own country.
CAmericans think that they are equal to one another no matter where they wereborn.
D Americans are trying hard to iron out their regional differences.
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