America's core founding values.
Video: America's Core Values: Liberty, Equality & Self-Government. In this lesson, we will examine a few of America's core values. We will focus especially on liberty, self-government, equality, individualism, diversity, and unity.
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10 Core American Values
individualism
- belief that each person is unique, special and a “basic unit of nature”
- emphasis on individual initiative
- stress need for independence
- premium on individual expression
- value privacy
equality
- open society that ideally treats everyone equally
- little hierarchy
- informal
- directness in relations with others
materialism
- a “right” to be well off and physically comfortable
- judge people by their possessions
science and technology
- values scientific approaches
- primary source of good
- major factor in change
progress and change
- belief in changing self and country
- “Manifest Destiny”
- optimism -- nothing is impossible
work and leisure
- strong work ethic
- work is the basis of recognition, power.
- idleness seen as a threat to society
- leisure is a reward for hard work
competition
- aggressive and competitive nature encouraged
- Be First (#1) mentality
mobility
- a people on the move
- vertical (social / economic) as well as physical mobility
volunteerism
- belief in helping others (related to equality concept)
- philanthropy admired
- a personal choice not a communal expectation
- involves associations / denominations rather than kin-groups
action and achievement oriented
- emphasis on getting things done
- priority on planning and setting goals
- tendency to be brief and business like,
- practical
- measure results
- focus on function and pragmatism
- https://www.andrews.edu/~tidwell/bsad560/USValues.html
