Values Americans Live By Summary

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According to the “The Values Americans Live By” by L. Robert Kohls, the American values are the Personal Control over the environment. American people are no longer believe in the power of fate, and they have to look people who do as bring backward, or hopelessly naïve because for the “fatalistic” are the worst criticisms that can American people. Next is the Change, in the American mind, change is seen as the indisputably good condition. Change is strongly liked to development, improvement, process and growth. Third is the time and its control, time is for the

Schedules, for the American, are meant to be planned and then followed in the smallest detail. Fourth is the Equality/Egalitarianism. Equality is, for Americans, one of their most cherished values. This concept is so important for Americans that they have even given it a religious basis. They say all people have been "created equal." Most Americans believe that God views all humans alike without regard to intelligence, physical condition or economic status. Fifth is the Individual and Privacy. Americans think they are more individualist in their thoughts and actions than, in fact, they are. They resist being thought of as representatives of a homogenous group, whatever the group. And lastly the Self-Help Control. In the United States, a person can take credit only for what he or she has accomplished by himself or herself. Americans get no credit whatsoever for having been born into a rich family. (In the United States, that would be considered "an accident of birth.") Americans pride themselves in having been born poor and, through their