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1. Whereas other societies looktothepastforguidance, we castournetsforward
(面向未来)
2. It is the belief in a brighter future that gives us optimism.
3. Even these days, when not all proGREss seems positive(nuclear weapons, air pollution, unemployment, etc.), the belief remains that for every problem there is a rational solution.
4. The jobof the parents is to give the children every opportunity while they are growing up and then get out of their way.
5. What deference people in authority do command is based on their actual powers rather than on their age, wisdom, or dignity.
6. In a society that changes as fast as ours, experience simply does not have the value that it does in traditional societies.
7. It has taken a long time to convince the public that freeenterprisedoes not mean that a company should be free to pollute the air, foul the rivers, and destroy the forests.
8. Theassemblylinereducedworkerstocogsofmachineryand made their jobs unutterablyboring, but it produced goods fast.
9. Food is prepackaged and shopping is impersonal, but the efficiencyof the operation produces lower prices and less shopping time.
10. As an American is always strivingto change his lot, he never fully identifieswith any group.
11. In America, there are no such expressions such as in china where “the fat pig gets slaughtered,” or in Japan, where “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”
12. This freedom from the group has enabled the American to become “Economic Man”—onedirectedalmost purelyby profitmotive, mobileand unencumbered (不受阻碍的)by familyorcommunityobligations.
13. Equipped with the money, one can acquirethe taste, style, and ideas that mark each class and launchaquickascentofthesocialladder.
14. Actually, persons in statussocietieswho are secure in their niches (适当的位置)are allowed more eccentricity than Americans, who relyheavilyonsignals that other people like them.
15. When half the population goes to college, one cannot expect the colleges to maintainthe same standards as in countries where only theeliteattend.
16. Just as not every Japanese is hardworking and deferentialtosuperiors(长者、上司), not every Chinese isdevotedtofamily, not every American is ambitiousor patriotic – or even unsophisticated.
