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How Americans See Themselves Because they think they are responsible asindividuals for having chosen their basic values and their way of life, manyAmericans dont like generalizations others make about them. Generalizationsdisturb Americans. They may be unhappy with the thought that they hold certainideas and act in certain way simply because they were born and raised in theUnited States, and not because they had consciously thought about those ideasand ways of doing things and chosen the ones they preferred. Therefore, Americans seefew generalizations that can safely be made about them in part because they areso individualistic and in part because they think regional and other kinds ofdifferences clearly distinguish Americans of various groups from each other. Arepresentatives of their country. B people different from person toperson. D individualsthat share the same values and way of life. A does not really exist. C is different from other cultures. Individual Americans may think that theirvalues B are forced on themby the society in which they were born. Americans aredisturbed by generalizations others make about them because B not all Americans were bornand raised in the U. S. D they, as individuals, do not have the same ideas and ways ofdoing things. AAmericans do not like to make generalizations about themselves on the basis ofregional differences. CAmericans think that they are equal to one another no matter where they wereborn. | 
