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American culture When we talk about American ,what we will think about first. Maybe we As we know, America is a young country, ,however, its culture is quite splendid,which is admitted by people all over the world,especially its fastfood culture.In 1948,the Richards opened up the first fastfood restaurant,named Mcdonalds,beside a highway.In order to attract people passing by,they lifted up the golden neon signs,mainly selling out the hamburgers,milkshake,soda water and so on which are packed with paper bags.Due to its convenient to carry with,those people that on the car can find the solution to eating,therefore,its very popular with the Americans.Based on the industrial pipeline,a new kind of the fastfood came into being.With its appearance,a new lifestyle started to spread to the whole America,even affected the whole world later on.In my opinion,the reason why the American fastfood is so popular owes to peoples fast rhythm of life,and Americans are always seeking for the high efficiency no matter in their work or life. The main content of American culture is the emphasize on individuals value, the pursue of democracy and freedom, the promotion of deploitation(开拓, 经营) and competition and the need of realistic and practicality. Its core is individualism: self first, personal need first, pursue of individual benefit and enjoyment, emphasize on achieving individual value by self-strive and self-design. This type of intentionally build up of personality and pursue customized individualism has its pros and cons, it gives incentives to people and make them exert on their potential and wisdom and as a result accelerate the development of the entire race and nation; on the other hand it is difficult to keep good relationship among people if everyone is egocentric thus make the entire society lack of unity. American citizens emphasize on achievements and respect heroes. They have great sense in their hearts to praise succeand