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* AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CULTURE ——AMERICAN WAYS 《美国文化背景》 Why to read: For love of American culture For Teaching For level up English Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participates. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own. Edward T. Hall (1914- ) （文化所蕴藏的内容远比它所展现出来的要多， 更奇怪的是，它在本国人民面前隐藏的尤其有效。 多年的生活经验使我确信：真正的工作并不是要 学习外国文化，而是理解本国文化。） American——A Nation of Immigrants American——The great melting-pot America is the great Melting-Pot where all races of Europe are melting and re-forming… Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians——into the Melting-Pot with you all! God is making the American! Isreal Zangwill,1908 （美国是上帝的熔炉，在这个大熔炉中，欧洲各 个种族得到冶炼和重铸……德国人和法国人，爱尔兰 人和英国人，犹太人和俄罗斯人——都投到上帝的熔 炉中吧！上帝在创造美国人！） The Context of Traditional American Values: （传统美国价值观） Individual Freedom and Self-Reliance （个人自由和自立） Equality of Opportunity and Competition （机会均等与机会并存） Material Wealth and Hard Work （物质富有和勤奋工作） The American Dream （美国人的梦想） EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES （美国教育） Americans regard education as the means by which the inequalities among individuals are to be erased and by which every desira- ble end is to be achieved. George S. Counts (1889-1974) （美国人把教育看做是消除个体间不平等和满足所有良好愿望的方法。） Educating the Individual （个性化教育） Put more emphasis on developing critical- thinking skills than they do on acquiring quantities of facts. Students are encouraged to ask questions, think for themselves, and express their own opinions in class, a refle- ction of the American values of individual freedom and self-reliance. The goal of the American education system is to teach chi- ldren how to