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Prejudices against Americans
There are a plenty of Myths here are four of them:
1.) All Americans are fat.Sure you see fat people if you travell to the U.S.A.Maybe even
dressed in clothes
inappropriate to their body shape.There is a equal number of "x-ray women" who
believe they never can be too thin
They slicing theiur bodies up with cosmetic surgery or making themselves ill with
anorexia or bulimia.
2.)All Americans are loud.Maybe Americans have such loud vioces because they live in
such a huge area.In America you can drive for a thousand miles and never leave the
same state.
3.)All Americans are rich.
4.)They`re all alike.
Keep in mind that the Americans also have theirb own misguided stereotypes of what
Europeans are like.
American Values
The traditional value system includes hard work and worshipping the dollarit is part of
the American Dream that if you only work hard enough you´ll get respect from the
society.On the media,TV ore newspaper it´s coming back about people who are
successes from hard work.And that´s all they Americans treated with.Anyone could
make it ,is able to make the best of life if they just try it really hard..Being a success is
really important in the U.S.A.Society really frowns upon people who don´t make it.there
is a system of competition.The individium is influenced by the society and society
encourage success.Money rules.
If you got it you are someone,a winner,if you don´t you`re a loser.a fashionable way of
life for example is the YUPPIE.A young person in a proffesional job with a high
income.He enjoys spending moneyand has an extravergant way of life which includes a
big house or apartment with a expensice car infront of it.Winning is an american passion
and so people have got to compete.Rivalry and not cooperation are the follows.The lost
war against Vietnam really ripped the society.It divided some people.It was the first war
America didn´t win.that was really thougan the U.s.a.The desire to be well-liked has also
often been associated with the American Dream.Being respected is a very important
feature too.The big problem in America is the poverty in the lower classes.Rich people
have much more oppurtunities than poor people.They can afford a privat school and so
they´re better educated.Your life depends on your socail and ethinc backround.Many
poor people,mainly blacks in slum areas,go to dilapidated schools they often join a gang
and have to work on the side.Sometimes they were drope out of high scholl without
diploma, but without this report it´s almost impossible to get a well paid job.The
changing role of women America´s women changed thier life-styles.The ráte of working
increases in contrast to the forties.More than a half of all American women have got a
job and earn money.They also have got an higher education level more of them go to
college and to uzniversity than years before.Contemporary young women prefer the
single life, they marry at a later age.this fact can be a conclusion for the low birthrate.the
average woman has 1-2 children.Years ago the average woman had 3 or 4 kids.The
majority of todays woman don´t believe in traditional life in which the husband goes to
work and the wife does the entire household by herself.They´re for equal rights and
equal resonsibilities.they also got jobs which are normally deducated to men.a hundred
years ago women were not allowed to vote at least.They only had to grow up the

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children ,do the housework and making men happy.In 1830 women´s movemen started
with the right to vote.1960 many femenists got more and more popular.The
NOW(national organisation for women)were founded,which demended access to all
jobs,political power and the end of sexistic society.The government hadt to make osme
legislation which gave a greater equality to them.In the next years women got new
rights.I5t was easier for them to get loans and mortgages,it was also forbidden to
descriminat pregnant women in thier jobs.So there were possiubilities to enter in male
dominanted jobs.The number of women in instituable leadership positions has
doubled.Women become lawyers,doctor or scientist.Women´s selfesteem has risen up
rapidlyApart from rthe successes,unfortunitly sex discriminatiion still exists.Men sill earn
a third more than women who do the same work.The new position of women implies
disadvanteges, too.America´s woman is often the most working part in the family.The
problem is that there are not that many kinder garten spaces the children get neglected.