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What is mainstream American culture? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

American mainstream culture is Christian culture, free-market culture, fast-food culture, of which Christian culture to the Protestant denominations as the main stream, Catholicism, Mormonism (are Christianity in the discipline) is currently only a minority, the United States of America Catholicism is the development of early European Christianity. Mormonism is an American innovation! Mormonism is an American innovation! It is a novel form of Christianity founded by American Joseph Smith, and has been around for over 100 years now.

American free-market culture is characterized by a reverence for freedom, believing that freedom brings benefits such as prosperity, openness, and inclusiveness, that is, asking others to open their markets to themselves, and opening their markets to others, so that everyone can benefit from trade, exchange, and services.

American fast food culture is to eat French fries, fried chicken, drink Coke, eat bento (Japanese "boxed lunch" meaning) and other fast food consumption derived from the cultural meaning is that: free-spirited, free to do whatever you want, some only care about the immediate optimism and enjoyment, and less care about the consequences of the future. (The final cause and effect may be to find a way out of the situation. (The final cause and effect may be to find a way to use advanced financial tools to transfer the trouble to those unlucky countries and regions on the line, because the world is never short of "scapegoats.

The advantage of the American culture is: the top design is very scientific, always at the head of the world's political, economic, military, scientific and technological and the top of the pyramid, often can pay a small price, but harvested the world's rich economic fruits, belongs to a very realistic, pragmatic modernization of the culture, with the United Kingdom, Japan and allied to the After "one rigid and two soft" and "one main and two wings" (the United States is the main rigid, Britain and Japan are two wings, the island country of Britain is responsible for the balance of the European continent; the island country of Japan is responsible for the balance of the Asian continent), it is a unique in the world, few rivals.

Disadvantage is: more disorganized, cynical, long time so that people can not be trusted for a long time, the foundation of the internal social ideological rift is relatively large, as long as the economy is not good, religious and ethnic contradictions after the intensification of the results are unpredictable, is similar to Middle East, the kind of separatist tendencies in Europe, the culture.