Political Science POLS-Y 103 Lecture 5: American Political Culture (week 5)
25 Aug 2016
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The common view of american political culture. Political culture is about the attributes that are broadly shared in a society. Not ideology, which describes areas where we may disagree. Distrust of overreaching government is at the core of the american political culture. Lacking this value, it seems likely that the united states is part of britain or the. Took 2-4 months to reach europe by ship. American culture can develop largely independent of the events of europe. Religion: a rejection of authority in countries dominated by either the catholic. Church or the church of england distrust of government. Economics: the economically adventurous and the world"s poor, seeking opportunities individualism. Force: slavery and the basis for a multi-racial society diversity as the basis for questions of equality. As a consequence, canadian democracy is much more akin to what we see in. American democracy was further culturally isolated from the british parliamentary approach.
