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The American Dream- some key expressions
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- 1Independence Day (Fourth of July)-Declaration of Independence was adopted by the former british 13 colonies on July 4, 1776
-important holiday
-symbolic significance
-is made use of in (pop) culture (movie and song "Independence Day", books..) - 2The Stars and Stripes ("Old Glory")-name of the American flag
-white: purity
-red: endurance and bravery
-blue: justice
-13 stripes: founding states
-50 stars - 3New Canaan-Old Testament: land west of the river Jordan(later Palestine) = country to which Moses led his people when God told him to free them from slavery
-17th writers and those fleeing referred to this
-hope that America would become their "Promides Land" - 4Melting Pot-Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
-US metaphor: "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men.." (African and Native Americans were excluded) - 5Frontier-area between permanently settled land and "wild" or unsettled, open land
-frontier reached the Pacific in 1890
-related to Manifest Destiny
-kept alive in culture and political rhetoric - 6Mulitculturalism-did not emerge in the US until the 1980s
-2 competing concepts = assimilation vs. pluralism, on a cultural level = mainsstream vs. minority culture and subcultures
=> +achieved more rights for minority groups
=> -furthered cultural fragmentation - 7Individualism-central concept
-self-reliance and responsibility for one's own fate
-rooted in ideas of Enlightenment, Puritanism and the frontier experience
=> freedom&opportunity => necessarily prosper
-American tradition of scepticism about government restriction or interference
- bad conditions for welfare programs or legislature - 8Uncle Sam-nickname for the A. government and A. people
-first: negative connotation (was used by opponents of the war against England 1812)
-then: Uncle Sam as a white, beardedman dressed in stars and stripes
=> recruit volunteers during WW1 and WW2 - 9The Puritans-social and religious movement (16th&17th)
-wanted to cleanse the Church of England from the influence of the Roman-Catholic Papism
-"purify" the message of the bible
-split up in Presbyterians and Congregationalists
-believed A. was the Promised Land, founded settlements in New England, Connecticut and New Haven - 10Manifest DestinyJohn L. O'Sullivan (1813-1859): A.'s mission to democratize the world
-A. used this belief in its manifest destiny (offensichtliches/ unabwendbares) Schicksal to justify its territorial expansion as well as imperialism
=> role of the US as a global mediator in political conflicts grew out of this idea
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- Abitur Englisch (Q1-To Kill A Mockingbird & "The Challenge of Individualism") Karteikarten am The American Dream- some key expressions, erstellt von Zoe Henss am 03/01/2017.
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