1、AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CULTURE AMERICAN WAYS,美國文化背景,Why to read:,For love of American culture,For Teaching,For level up English,Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participates. Years of study have convinced me that

2、 the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own. Edward T. Hall (1914- ),（文化所蘊藏的內(nèi)容遠(yuǎn)比它所展現(xiàn)出來的要多， 更奇怪的是，它在本國人民面前隱藏的尤其有效。 多年的生活經(jīng)驗使我確信：真正的工作并不是要 學(xué)習(xí)外國文化，而是理解本國文化。）,AmericanA Nation of Immigrants,AmericanThe great melting-pot,America is the great Melting-Pot where all races of

3、Europe are melting and re-forming Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russiansinto the Melting-Pot with you all! God is making the American! Isreal Zangwill,1908,（美國是上帝的熔爐，在這個大熔爐中，歐洲各 個種族得到冶煉和重鑄德國人和法國人，愛爾蘭 人和英國人，猶太人和俄羅斯人都投到上帝的熔 爐中吧！上帝在創(chuàng)造美國人！）,The Context of Traditional American

4、Values:,（傳統(tǒng)美國價值觀）,EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES,（美國教育）,Americans regard education as the means by which the inequalities among individuals are to be erased and by which every desira- ble end is to be achieved. George S. Counts (1889-1974),（美國人把教育看做是消除個體間不平等和滿足所有良好愿望的方法。）,Educating the Individual,（個

5、性化教育）,Put more emphasis on developing critical- thinking skills than they do on acquiring quantities of facts. Students are encouraged to ask questions, think for themselves, and express their own opinions in class, a refle- ction of the American values of individual freedom and self-reliance. The g

6、oal of the American education system is to teach chi- ldren how to learn and to help them reach their maximum potential.,? Multicultural Education,（多元文化教育）,American view the family as a group whose primary purpose is to advance the happiness of individual members. The result is that the needs of eac

7、h individual take priority in the life of the family.,（美國人把家庭看成是一個集體，首要的目的是增加每個家庭成員的快樂。這樣的結(jié)果使得每個人的需求成了家庭生活中優(yōu)先考慮的事情。）,The role of the child,（孩子的作用）,Some American families tend to place more Emphasis on the needs and desires of the child than on the childs social and family responsibilities.,（一些家庭傾向于把更多的注意力放在孩子的需要和要求上，而不重視孩子對社會及家庭的責(zé)任觀念的教育。）,After reading,Different cultu