文档介绍：Values and Attitude
-----价值观
-the ideal
of opportunity
-reliance
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America-the ideal
Seymour Lipset ---American Exceptionalism(美国的独特性)
He observes that America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed.
Despite their different backgrounds or motivations , those who came willingly to America were bound together by similar beliefs ,united in the same mission.
They rejected notions of a state-mandated(国家授权)religion,a powerful centralized government ,or a rigid class structure .
Their utopian (理想化的)ideal was to have the space and freedom to create a model society .They believed that morality and hard work led to the improvement of mankind and the betterment of society. Everyone had an equal chance of ess because every individual was free to control his own destiny, even the “pursuit of happiness”.
Later institutionalized in the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution, they have shaped public policy and national values ever since.
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Equality of opportunity
In early time, Americans were determined to make their new society a meritocracy (精英管理社会).The Declaration of Independence emphasized that “all men are created equal”
regardless of race ,religion, or background, every individual
should be provided with equal opportunity to eed.
Equal opportunity does not mean egalitarianism(平等主义).Ale