After 9/11, Americans had one of the strongest levels of patriotism and nationalism in history. This moment demonstrates how important patriotism is to the people of the United States and shows how engrained it is in the culture.
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America is very connected through a multitude of Internet media outlets. This is most supported by President Obama's heavy use of social media outlets to connect to the American public today.
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Citizens of the United States tend to take sides and are very competitive. Political party division is seen on a wide variety of partisan media outlets and embodies true American competitive spirit.
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Censorship is tabooed in American culture and does not fall in sync with the concept of Freedom of Speech within the First Amendment. China has been under great scrutiny for a number of years for it's officials censorship practices of Internet content in the country.
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Japanese officials apologizing for inaccurately warning of high levels of radiation at a nuclear plant causing panic among workers. Large corporations in America have a difficult time in taking blame for their blunders, thus, the Japanese apology is something very unheard of in American culture. Americans tend to blame someone else before actually taking account for the issues they instigated.
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Nuclear weapons are against all American values, therefore American politicians work rampantly to try to eradicate the threat of nuclear warfare. North Korea is one of the United States' biggest opponents in regards to nuclear warfare and has been a constant struggle for many years. After World War 2, the United States learned how powerful and destructive the weapons are, and are now trying to avoid another nuclear attack from happening again. |
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