31、ings, prints, busts, medallions, clocks, vases, plates, handkerchiefs and even snuff-boxes were manufactured emblazoned with Franklins portrait. His American Individualism had become a popular commodity.2.2.2 Manifestation of Individualism in America Society As what discussed before, American Indivi 。

32、dualism affected almost every aspect of peoples life. As a Chinese famous professor Qian Mansu concluded there are nine manifestations of Individualism. They are: personal privacy, self-reliance, self- expression, independent thinking, personal freedom, Independent determination, personal equality,。

33、free competition, personal lifestyle. Among these nine manifestations, independent thinking, independent determination and personal lifestyle can be considered as the branches of personal freedom. Thus, the main manifestation of Individualism can be concluded like Personal privacy, Self-reliance, Se 。

34、lf-expression, Personal freedom, Personal equality and free competition. 2.2.2.1 Personal PrivacyAs we all know Chinese people always ask ones age, marriage, job or salary when they meet with each other. But Americans do not. These greetings that are considered very common in China are cultural tabo 。

35、o in America, because Americans believe all these are personal privacy. For instance, one must telephone before he pays a visit to another even including his friends or relatives. Anybody mustnt step into anothers house without permission. No one has the right to read any others letter even parents。

36、mustnt read their childrens private letters. In the fast-food shop, everyone hold their own plates enjoying their own meal without any interference to other person. Those greetings are very popular in China such as “where are you going?” “Have you eaten your meal?” would lead to Americans anger beca 。

37、use he believes that this is his own privacy but not any others business.In America, personal privacy is respected highly and protected by the law. Anyone who infringe upon any others personal privacy with motivate of profit, curiosity or malice will be punished. But the public have the right to kno 。

38、w the salary, possessions, personal style of national civil servants. Simultaneously, this kind of right is protected by the Privacy Law. In addition, peoples right of privacy can be found in daily life. 2.2.2.2 Personal Freedom and Personal EqualityIn Americans social values, liberty and equality h 。

39、ave the tightest link with Individualism. Equal opportunity and personal freedom are the basic foundation for every member of the society to achieve their self-fulfillment. Individualism will be an unrealistic thought without these two principles. There is no feudal tradition without these two princ 。

40、iples. Those early immigrants who came to this continent in order to escape from all kinds of suppression on the European continent planted the seeds of equality and free thoughts. After that immigrants in every section of American history took these two principles as their common goal. It is no exa 。

41、ggeration to say that the 300 years of American history was the process of redefining the equality and freedom.The equality and freedom in Americans eyes are largely different from that in the Europeans. The equality in American social values does not mean the equal position of wealth and treatment, 。

42、 but equal rights and equality of different ability and background. However, the equality of rights and opportunity couldnt bring equalitarianism on power and wealth, American obviously will take more attention to the former. American scholars have pointed out that Equalitarianism was a narrow theor 。

43、y of distribution existed in the traditional peasantry society in which people believed in the opinion that social wealth was limited. On the contrary, Equal opportunity is the basic condition by which every member of the society can realize his or her own goals. These two have fundamental differenc 。

44、es.The concept of advocating freedom is also affecting Americans attitude to life which will be clearly seen from their closing style. Americans closing conception is free with their individual character. Clothing was not the measure of ones social position but the means one complexly display their。

45、personality. Everyone could choose their own color and style of clothes, dressing up at their will. In the past, men wore European subunits in the office was a conventional regulation. But at the middle of 1990s, there was a trend of “dress down” swept through offices. Clerks especially those worker 。

46、s in the field of height-technology changed their reserved European swats into plain clothier, steeped into busy task with a relatively light mood.Although, equality and freedom provided the fertile soil for the development of Individualism, the final achievement of it will be impossible without fre 。

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