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The "American Way of Life" is humanitarian, "forward-looking", optimistic. Americans are easily the most generous and philanthropic people in the world, in terms of their ready and unstinting response to suffering anywhere on the globe. The American believes in progress, in self-improvement, and quite fanatically in education. But above all ...
The British policy of salutary neglect for its North American colonies intended to minimize trade restrictions as a way of ensuring they stayed loyal to British interests. [55] This permitted the development of the American Dream , a cultural spirit distinct from that of its British founders. [ 55 ]
In the 1920s Mencken led the attack on the genteel tradition in American literature, ridiculing the provincialism of American intellectual life. In his 1920 essay "The Sahara of the Bozart" (a pun on a Southern pronunciation of 'beaux-arts') he singled out the South as the most provincial and intellectually barren region of the US, claiming ...
While, yes, the United States got its start in 1776 by rejecting British royalty as a form of governance — and fighting a war to get away from it — Americans have never quite been able to quit ...
A World Values Survey cultural world map, describing the United States as low in "Secular-Rational Values" and high in "Self-Expression Values". The society of the United States is based on Western culture, and has been developing since long before the United States became a country with its own unique social and cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine ...
The British drive on the left side of the road while we, in America, drive on the right side. ... to do it the other way. It turns out that about 30% of the world’s countries mandate left-side ...
Americans were paid five times more than comparable British servicemen, which led to a certain amount of friction with British men and intermarriage with British women. [ 111 ] In 1945 Britain sent a portion of the British fleet to assist the planned October invasion of Japan by the United States, but this was cancelled when Japan was forced to ...
Krajcir thinks that water has become a symbol of well-being for many Americans—so much so that toting around a popular water bottle brand is a way to virtue signal how socially aware you are ...