American Culture by Christopher Wolfe

American culture -What is culture? It’s the values, traditions, customs, arts, history, folklore, literature, beliefs, life –style, clothes, food, celebrations, festivals, architecture, media, education, social relations, instruction, that a group of people share who are unified by race, ethnicity, language, nationality or religion. Every culture has these components and you have to understand the culture to understand the law of every culture. When you go to another culture, you have to adapt with it to learn again. You should have the ability to see differences and similarities. Consequently, You can see yourself in comparing to other worlds. U.S is a nation of immigrants. All those who live in U.S are immigrants but there were some who immigrated in the past and others who will immigrate in the future. The American culture is a western culture, and has been developed since long time before United State became a country. What is meant by American culture is not only the culture of the United Statian but it is the culture of all other millions who lives in America, Canada, Latin America, in all the American Continent. Today U.S is a multi-Cultural nation. It has been tradionally known as a melting –pot. But recent academic opinion is tending towards cultural diversity and the image of a salad bowl rather than a melting pot. This means that the differences between American sub cultural, making American Cultural heterogeneous. There are some general cultural values and descriptions that most of Americans would agree with the general accuracy of them. E.g. Individual freedom and self-Reliance, equality of opportunities, strong sense of individual privacy and suspion of strong governments, time is a resource to be used, and progress equals change and vice versa. Americans think that educational system is not only the transfer of information but it should be a mixture of hard work and fun. They also think that the consistent system of law applies to everyone, regardless of his social statues or position. This is Iman hassan from Egypt