U.S. Mental attitude
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Relationship to other citizenry
What is the person's relationship to other citizenry?
U.S. mental attitude evaluates individuality and realizes satisfaction
as derived by individualal achievement. Maximizing one's possibilities and capabilities becomes a mental duty.
But although Americans pride themselves on their attitude for personal liberty, more American corporations (in particular in such traditional sectors as banking and insurance) are markedly hierarchical. By comparison, in collectivistic Japan, even a chief executive whose organization bears his name realizes he is required to balance individualal desires against the harmoniousness of the group.
Hominian activity
What is the mode of hominian action?
It is asserted that American society does not give definite substance of achieving self-identification other than through activeness and performance, and so goal-achievement becomes instrumentality by which you place yourself separate from the grouping. Because other persons should be able to recognize this accomplishment, it has to be visible and measurable.
Thus financial abundance provides one measure of thriving activity. Inside the social group, employees are prompted by promises of promotion and status symbols overtly affiliated with rank and file such as a outstanding company automobile and a luxuriously fitted bureau.
Buddhist cultures in South-east Asia which implement beliefs in reincarnation bear that the individual is born into his/her existing status and circumstances by virtuousness of meritable acts performed in a former life and that conflict in this life may be unpointed.
By deflecting sinful acts and by preserving the harmony of nowaday circumstances, you support your probability of being born into a elevated position in your succeeding rebirth.
Hominal action
What is the temporal concentration of human action?
North America is usually held up as a future-orientated social group which conceives that the upcoming can be prearranged and contained. Moreover, the future is sure to be better than the existing just as the present is required to be a melioration on the past. However this orientation may be short-term.
