- Post your response in 200-300 words to the following questions: Characterize U.S. culture according to the five categories of the value orientation theory: man-nature, activity, time, human nature, relational. What overall conclusions can you draw about U.S. culture?
2007-01-03 14:02:58 · 6 answers · asked by love_to_please_my_man 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
We rock! Anyone seen the keys to my Hummer?
2007-01-03 14:51:25 · answer #1 · answered by edward_the_l0ngshanks 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HEALTHCARE
43 million Americans without healthcare (this is unthinkable in the EU, where 99.9% have healthcare)
POVERTY
12.2% of all Americans lives under the poverty line; that's ONE IN SEVEN; the EU average is 1.2%.
12% poverty is proof that the American model has serious problems. If you're jobless in the EU, you still get a decent house, healthcare, social security, a minimum salary, and all kinds of assistance. In America, you end up on the street.
EDUCATION
The USA ranks BELOW WORLD AVERAGE when it comes to education. There's no future generation that can assure the greatness of the USA. America, ranking alongside countries like Guatemala, Uzbekistand and Burkina Fasso.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
when we look at the facts, we can only say that America is the LEAST FREE COUNTRY ON THE PLANET, and that's meant LITERALLY: over 2.5 million Americans live in a prison cell; it's the biggest number in history, and per country; America has the highest number of inmates both per capita as in absolute terms;
-1 in 25 of ALL Americans will die having spent a time in jail; in the EU this is 1 in 350, in Japan 1 in 500.
-conclusion: America is nothing but a vast prison.
SOCIAL PLAGUES:
-America leads the way, on all fronts: drug abuse, teen pregancy, divorce, murder rate, gangs, rape, obesity, school shootings, outspoken racism, religious hatred and crime, everyday domestic abuse, drug addiction, gun ownership, race crimes, depression, ADHD, neuroticism, etc...etc...
2007-01-04 10:34:29 · answer #2 · answered by Mike J 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That, like all cultures, it is superficial, compared to the unity of human species behaviors.
2007-01-03 15:06:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Two overall conclusions. 1. mixed up! and 2. lost!
2007-01-03 14:10:45 · answer #4 · answered by smoothsoullady 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Nice try buddy but not today. How about lazy?
2007-01-03 20:21:46 · answer #5 · answered by kim c 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
US culture = consumerism
2007-01-03 14:41:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋