论美国文化的特征和其对美国民众心理的塑造.pdfVIP

Advances in Social Sciences 社会科学前沿, 2017, 6(2), 211-218 Published Online February 2017 in Hans. /journal/ass /10.12677/ass.2017.62028 On the Characteristics of American Culture and Its Shaping of American Psyche Lin Xia Department of English, Wuhan University Luojia College, Wuhan Hubei th st th Received: Feb. 7 , 2017; accepted: Feb. 21 , 2017; published: Feb. 24 , 2017 Abstract The author analyzes the structure and characteristics of American culture, discusses the characte- ristics and manifestations of the American psyche, reveals the function and mechanism of the psychological shaping by the culture, and demonstrates the meaning of our research. We take cul- ture as a free and live information system, which mainly in the “metaphysical” way exists outside the process of development, mature, decay and doom of all members, and in which there is a “cul- tural triangle” that consists of three elements, i.e., the ideas of existence, nature and society. We regard the individual psyche as an information system whose development, maturation, aging and death are accompanied by physiology, and in which there is a “psychological triangle” that com- poses of drive, knowledge and intelligence. The culture and the psyche have the same structure and the similar function. We suggest that the culture is the logic comprehensiveness of the whole individual psyches and the psyche is an individual “token” of the whole culture; culture is a “big psyche” of a group and psyche is a “small culture” of an individual; culture is a “pickle jar”, and psyche is a “pickled vegetable”; and specific biological genetics, and some cultural elements, as w