As might be expected, educational institutions in the United States reflect the nation’s basic values, especially the ideal of equality of opportunity. From elementary school through college, Americans believe that everyone deserves an equal opportunity to get a good education. From the beginning, when Americans established their basic system of public schools in 1825, they […]

15 r I 1 he disagreement about what rights the government should guarantee has caused JL the “values divide” or the “culture wars” of the early 2000s. John Kenneth White has written about the split in The Values Divide: American Politics and Culture in Transition, with an introduction by John Zogby. White discusses the fact […]

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own. Preview Vocabulary A. Every chapter of American Ways contains many words from the […]

6 HP he earliest settlers came to the North American continent to establish colonies A which were free from the controls that existed in European societies. They wanted to escape the controls placed on many aspects of their lives by kings and governments, priests and churches, noblemen and aristocrats.1 To a great extent, they succeeded. […]

Write T if the statement is true and F it is false according to the information in the chapter. ____ 1. Although there is cultural pluralism in the United States, there is no religious pluralism. ____ 2. The Protestant denominations (such as Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian) are all part of the Roman Catholic church. ____ […]