American Values

Doing well at school and at work is important. Gaining wealth and prestige is a sign of success.

• Work

• Individualism

• Progress and Material Comfort

• Personal Achievement

Personal freedoms of religion, speech, and the press are central to the American way of life

• Equality and Democracy

• Morality and Humanitarianism

• Freedom

• Individualism

Everyone should have an equal chance at success and the right to participate freely in government

• Freedom

• Equality and Democracy

• Personal Achievement

• Morality and Humanitarianism

History is marked by ongoing progress, and this progress improves people's lives

• Efficiency and Practicality

• Progress and Material Comfort

• Morality and Humanitarianism

• Work

Discipline, dedication, and hard work are signs of virtue

• Work

• Efficiency and Practicality

• Personal Achievement

• Progress and Material Comfort

Judgements should be based on a sense of right and wrong. This sense of morality also involves helping the less fortunate.

• Morality and Humanitarianism

• Equality and Democracy

• Progress and Material Comfort

• Efficiency and Practicality

Hard work, initiative, and individual effort are the keys to personal achievement

• Work

• Progress and Material Comfort

• Personal Achievement

• Individualism

Getting things done well in the shortest time possible is very important

• Work

• Progress and Material Comfort

• Efficiency and Practicality

• Personal Achievement