American Cultural Value
Readings/Media: One World, Many Cultures, 3.2 (Ung, “Double Happiness”), 6.6 (Natadecha-Sponsel, “Indiviualism as.an American Cultural Value”), 7.5 (Pham, “Foreign-Asians), 8.5 (Yang, “Walking Back Alone”) and other readings from Blackboard
Natadecha-Sponsel talks about, in “Individualism as an American Cultural Value,” the role of communalism (e.g. focus on the group/community) as opposed to individualism. What do you see as the role of these two values in East Asia? And how do they compare to at least one of the other societies that we’ve talked about?