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5. The Great Depression, World War II, and the ______ increased the need for a strong
centralized national government.
6. ______ refers to a culture’s most fundamental beliefs about its place in the cosmos,
beliefs about God, and beliefs about the relationship of humanity and nature.
7. In the United States, people typically value ______ but clearly place a higher value
on human life.
8. In the United States, people have a strong faith in the ______ method of solving
problems.
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9. The term ______ refers to the use of time for self-expression and play, self-
improvement and development, and work.
10. People in the United States define self and others by ______.
11. People in the United States generally believe that ______ is good, the new is better
than the old.
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12. If there is one value that most of the rest of the world attributes to the United States,
it is ______.
13. When time is thought of as a ______, as it is in the United States, one needs to be
constantly aware of it so time clocks are everywhere.
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14. When time is viewed in a ______ fashion, as it is in the United States, it obviously
has a past, a present, and a future.
15. It has been argued that the ______ ancestry of the United States suggests that
people are born evil but have the potential to be good.
16. The fundamental reason for the rise of the West was an extraordinary faith in
______.
17. International ______ transportation makes it easier and less expensive to travel
abroad than to rural U.S. locations.
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18. The word ______ did not enter the English vocabulary until 1835 when Tocqueville
used it to describe what he found in the United States.
19. McClelland used ______ as an indicator of a culture’s degree of need for
achievement.
20. Some of the forces moving the United States toward the development of ______
cultures are the replacement of the old industrial heartland with new economic centers,
integration, equal rights, and immigration eroding the homogeneity of the population.
Essay
1. Identify origins of U.S cultural patterns.
2. Discuss Indigenous Americans’ influence on U.S. cultural patterns.
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3. Discuss European Enlightenment’s influence on U.S. cultural patterns.
4. Discuss regional differences due to immigration in the United States.
5.. Discuss the regional differences in the United States that continue to exist in three
areas of communication behavior.
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6. Discuss the forces toward the development of a dominant culture in the United
States.
7. Describe the U.S. worldview.
8. Explain how the scientific method relates to U.S. culture.
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9. Discuss the world’s perception of U.S. Americans as materialists.
10. Discuss the differing perspectives of social class in the United States.
11. Discuss activity orientation in the United States.
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12. Discuss the view of change in the United States.
13. Discuss time orientation in the United States.
14. What positive and negative consequences have resulted from the U.S. time
orientation?
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15. Discuss how goodness is viewed in the United States.
16. Discuss rationality in the United States and other Western cultures.
17. Discuss human nature orientation in the United States.
18. Discuss what is meant by hyperindividualism.
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19. Discuss relational orientation in the United States.
20. Discuss social organization in the United States.