i 美国个人英雄主义的价值分析 【摘要】 随着经济全球化的不断加快，中国与世界其他国家之间的联系越来越紧密。尤其是作为世界上最为发达的国家——美国，中国与其在经济，政治，文化等不同领域的合作与交流越来越频繁。虽然两国之间在各方面都取得了一定的成果，但由于地域文化的限制，我们对美国的价值体系仍不免陌生。因此，本文着重于研究一种典型而又普遍的美国人的价值观——个人英雄主义价值观。 本文主要通过查阅书籍资料，进行分析整合，以求对美国个人英雄主义价值观的发源以及原因，发展与深化，在各个领域的渗透以及它与中国传统的集体主义价值观的比较等方面有一个较为明确的认识，以期中国人能够对美国文化，价值观有一个更好的理解，这样我们可以增强相互之间的信任与友谊，消除不必要的偏见与误会，更好促进中美的跨文化交往，更好地为建设和谐世界做贡献。

【关键词】美国个人英雄主义 牛仔文化 自由 个人

An Analysis on Value of Individualistic Heroism in USA 【Abstract】 With the rapidly accelerating globalization, china has tighter and tighter relationship with other countries especially with America, the most developed nation in the whole world. They have cooperation and communication in the field of economy, politics along with culture. Although two countries have made great achievements in many aspects, we are still very unfamiliar with each other’s value system. Therefore, it is necessary for us to get familiar with the individualistic heroism---one of the most representative values in America. This paper aims to analyze its formation, development in various aspects and the comparison with china’s collectivism in order to let Chinese have a good understanding on American culture and its values, which, in a sense, can enhance mutual trust and friendship, eliminate prejudice and misunderstanding, and facilitate the proceedings of the cross-cultural communication between China and America and then promote the construction of a harmonious world. . 【Key Words】 individualistic heroism cowboy culture freedom individualism ii

Contents 1. Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 2. Analysis of historical background of the individualistic heroism in USA------------ 2 2.1 Foundation of America ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2 2.2 Development of the western America------------------------------------------------ 3 2.2.1 The cultures and spirits of West Cowboys-------------------------------------3 2.2.2 The Two Types of West Cowboys-----------------------------------------------------4 3. Extension and development of the individualistic heroism in American society---4 3.1 Value of individualistic heroism on economy--------------------------------------4 3.2 Value of individualistic heroism on entertainment---------------------------------4 3.3 Value of individualistic heroism on politics----------------------------------------5 3.4 Value of individualistic heroism on literature------------------------------5 4. Impact on America--------------------------------------------------------------------------5 4.2 Positive impact--------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 4.1 Negative impact------------------------------------------------------------------------6 5. Comparison between China and USA on value ----------------------------------------7 5.1 USA: individualistic heroism --------------------------------------------------------7 5.2 China: collectivism --------------------------------------------------------------------7 6. Conclusion------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8 7. Works Cited-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------9 1

An Analysis on Value of Individualistic Heroism in USA 1. Introduction When we talk about values, different people have their different definitions. American sociologist Talcott Parsons defined values like this: "values is one of the factors in the society that people have their consensus to accept the symbolic system (cultural system) , it is also the standard in all kinds of choices or actions. "Generally speaking, values should include factors as followed: Firstly, the value is an abstract thinking, and experience of life, it is the criteria for people to judge their own words and deeds; Secondly, the values is the standard for people to appreciate or identification; thirdly, values is to choose a standard action, but not the purpose of action, it is the unwritten norms of the invisible rules. Every society, every nation has its own traditional values, different social have different values. Formation of values of a nation affected by many factors, such as natural environment, social, political, historical, cultural, great, etc. And so does American values

USA，the most developed country in the world, in the most time, is used to manifesting its freedom, aggressiveness, individualism, and absolute confidence. These characters above can be concluded to be a formal term individualistic heroism. For the government of United States, it shows such characters many times in the world’s stage. No matter what in the case of Iraq War, or in the case of international financial summits, or in the case of the important political events such as General Assembly, America always plays a pivotal role in saving the whole world with its own strength. Additionally, in spite of the government of the United States, Americans show the individualistic heroism in their daily life as well. There is no exaggeration to say that individualistic heroism ingrains in their bloods from generations to generations.