The United States Culture

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US CULTURE

The United States of America being the third largest country in the world with more than 315 million inhabitants, consists of multicultural societies with ethnically diverse population. Since there are a lot of foreigners, the US culture has evolved in such a way accepting and tolerating other foreign cultures. US is very much influenced by protestant work ethics according to which people believe in themselves and their efforts to attain the goal of self-actualization and success. The rich diversity in the culture brought by foreigners, prevailing values of protestant ethics, hard work etc. have helped US to emerge as a superpower in the past years. Nearly every religion had its impact on US culture in one way or the other. The US culture was mainly shaped by Native Americans, Latin Americans, Africans and Asians.

US is now called as a ‘melting pot’ or ‘salad bowl’ where all the subcultures comes from different parts of the world and combine together to contribute their part to the whole US culture. So, the cultural affiliation of an individual residing in the US may depend on to the social class he belongs, political orientation and a multitude of demographic factors like religion, occupation etc. Even the leisure activities in US shows the impact of foreign culture on US. E.g. Tennis came from France, Soccer from England; and even the famous American pizza has its origin from Italy.

HOFTSEDE CULTURE DIMENSION AND ANALYSIS

Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural communication. Hofstede developed his original model as a result of using factor analysis to examine the results of a world-wide survey of employee values by IBM in the 1960s and 1970s. The theory was one of the f...

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...ociety. They consider people as unequal and doesn’t like the equality aspect. Whereas, egalitarianism promotes equality in the society. US is an egalitarian society which promotes equality of people in the society. Equality, liberty, and fraternity are the basic values of political system of US.

3. Mastery vs. harmony

Mastery oriented societies tend to encourage self-assertion in order to explore and make changes in natural and social environment to attain personal as well as group goals. Harmony societies tend to adjust or fit in to the existing environment and doesn’t like to alter or question anything. US is a mastery society where people always look out for more information and exploitation of resources if chances are available. This is why organizations in US are dynamic, competitive and result oriented towards achievement and success.

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