Can someone help me translate ~ a paragraph in English, about the cultural characteristics of the United States?

It has become a traditional American cultural trait to honor a man who started from nothing ---- a man who has often reached the top by his own efforts. When a leader in business, in industry, or as a university professor occupies a higher social position and enjoys more respect than the average laborer or factory worker, he will proudly point out that his father began his career as a farmer or some form of laborer in the United States.

This attitude toward manual labor is still on display today in many aspects of American life. A person is invited to a home that is not only comfortable, but boasts lavish furnishings, and there is plenty of evidence to show that the family can afford its foreign trips, expensive hobbies, and children's college educations. However, the hostess may cook and eat her own food and then scrub the dishes; furthermore, dinner will not be just some quick and easy canned food and a cake or pie from the neighborhood bakery. On the contrary, the hostess would often take pride in the special dishes prepared with care. A freelancer may talk about hitching a car wash, planting flower gardens, and decorating the house. His wife may also help her with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishes. A son away at college might wait on the table and then do the dishes for the rest of his life, or in the summer he might work on the highway with a construction group in order to pay for his own education.