AMERICA INDIVIDUALSIM-- ANALYZING THE CHINESE STARS AMERICANS LIKE 浅析美国人的个人主义——从美国人喜欢的华人明星想起.doc

AMERICA INDIVIDUALSIM-- ANALYZING THE CHINESE STARS AMERICANS LIKE 浅析美国人的个人主义——从美国人喜欢的华人明星想起 Acknowledgements Upon the smooth completion of the thesis, I would like to express my sincere thanks to many people. First of all, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my mentor who has given me a lot of help. Her knowledge of American culture, her careful, constructive comments and suggestions have been extremely valuable in helping me revise this thesis. Without her help, the completion of the present paper would not have been possible I would also like to express my deep appreciation to my classmates who have given a lot of important ideas for the topic. Finally, I want to thank my father and mother for their spiritual and practical support that backed me up all the way through. Abstract This paper aims to talk about an important characteristic of American culture - individualism, through analyzing the Chinese star Americans like. Due to the differences of culture, exotic star did not seem so easy to be accepted. But this law was broken Yao and Zhang Ziyi, who are not only smoothly integration into the United States of sports and entertainment circles, but also became the focus of the Americans. Yaos popularity to a certain extent, even goes beyond the local star of the United States. Why would the Americans selected Yao Ming and Zhang Ziyi as their idol from a number of Chinese star? What is the nature they owned which made the American people love them so much? Analysis of the Americans’ opinion on Yao and Zhang Ziyi, as well as the main reason for their love, we can easily find the two main reasons which make Yao Ming and Zhang Ziyi acceptable by the United States,. The fighting spirit of Yao and the Yao style humor, Zhang Ziyi’s independent tenacity are the characters which make most Americans appreciate. American culture has always been respected in individualism。 Individualism is to emphasize personality, stress on personal independence, respect for