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委婉语与美国人性格特征 American Characteristics The widely applied and highly polished euphemism in political news English has someting related to the American characteristics, which determines American minds and the ways of their thinking.American characteristics influence its whole nation foundamentally.In the following part, the thesis will discuss about the relationships between euphemism in political news English and American characteristics.Actually, the three kinds of Americal characteristics influence the use of euphemism in political news English.They are induvidualism,the value of equality and manifest destiny. 3.1 Induvidualism Induvidualism is the core of American culture.And the whole nation is dominated by it.The world individualism first appeared in French and has different interpretations in dictionaries.The Longnan Dictinary of Contemporary English defines it as follows:the belief that the rights and freedom of individual people are the most important rights in the society;the behavior or attitude of someone who does things in their own way without being influenced by other people.There is another definition in the Englisn Languge Dictionary .It says that individualism is the belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence.In a word, the individualism emphasizes on personal freedom and individual value, pay attention to self-dominance,self-control and self-development. As time went by, American individualism has his own charactristics.Firstly, it highlight the significance and dignity of the individual.Secondly,it advocate the individual freedom of ideology and actions. Thirdly, it supports self-decision and self-choice.Fourthly,it encourage individual competition as well as individual success.The said individualism here is quite different with the selfishness we usually talk about in China.Its keypoints are individual rights. When we take the global world as a whole, American alone can be seen as