AMERICAN TRADITIONAL BELIEFS

AND VALUES

MANH DUC
 OBJECTIVES

 Freedom
 Idealizing what is practical
 Volunteerism
 Psychology of Abundance
 Mobility
 Patriotism
 Progress
 American dream
 Psychology of Abundance

• Historically, American was known as a land of limitless

wealth.
– Take four of the best kingdoms in
Christendom and put them all together,
they may in no way compare with this
country for commodities or goodness of
soil.
 Psychology of Abundance

• Historically, American was known as a land of limitless

wealth.
– Come along, Come along, make no delay.
Come from every nation, Come from every way
Our land are broad enough, don’t be alarmed
For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm
– Land was cheap and available to anyone who wanted
to farm
– Not only farmers, but also game hunters, fur trappers,
gold and silvers miners…
 Psychology of Abundance

• Nowadays, attitudes toward wastefulness are changing.

– Made buffalo hunted to near extinction
– Millions of acres of forested land were cut and
burned
– Rivers were polluted from mining.
– It made the resources were gradually
depleted
– Tobacco land began to be exhausted and
abandoned before the end of 18th century.
– Cotton land were also abandoned when their
fertility was used up.
 Psychology of Abundance

• Nowadays, attitudes toward wastefulness are changing.

– People in Mountain West is suffering from a
severe water shortage.
– Westerners are faced with the need to restrict
population growth and reconsider uses for
water.
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