Historically, immigrants from many countries and regions in the world have consciously recognized the English culture in North America. Their second-generation immigrants have successfully transformed into American citizens economically, linguistically and politically, showing their cultural identity behavior, cultural awareness and cultural construction process towards a unified "American culture" under the multicultural background.
The salad bowl was put forward by Murray in 1976. He pointed out that "the concept of' cultural melting pot' does not seem to apply to them", and the United States is already a huge "salad bowl".
"Salad bowl" means that immigrant groups with multicultural backgrounds in the United States unite together, like a big salad bowl. Different cultures maintain their own characteristics, and there is no merger or integration into a single homogeneous culture.
With the intensification of multicultural reality in the United States, the cultural metaphor of "salad bowl" is more and more accepted, and then it replaces the policy of "cultural melting pot" and cultural fable and enters the field of public expression.
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The main content of American culture is to emphasize personal value, pursue democracy and freedom, advocate pioneering and competition, and stress rationality and practicality. Its core is individualism: the individual is supreme, pursuing personal interests, and emphasizing the ultimate realization of personal value through personal struggle and personal self-design.
The American public pays attention to achievements and worships heroes, and has a deep psychological accumulation of achievement worship and hero worship. Personal achievement is one of the most valued values among all American values. Americans have a strong sense of accomplishment.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-American Culture