____,we Americans are both practical and idealistic.We place great value on doing things forourselves,for this is what our pioneer forefathers were forced to do.Many foreign visitors are surprised to find that many couples of comfortable means do their own yard work,their own house-work,their own repairs.____,we are very idealistic:We think we have the best political,social,and economic system yet devised,and we ____expect everything to go smoothly.
____our idealism,we are easily disillusioned.This is why so many marriages end in divorceyoung couples expectations from marriage are unrealistically high.____,it helps explain the dissatisfactions and protests of many young people,and ____older people,who enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world.
A ____characteristics of us Americans is that money is more important than prestige to us.People work extremely hard,so many,unfortunately,either have little leisure time,or do not know how to enjoy it.Why do we work so hard?It is not to achieve greater status or prestige,but simply to have more of the material objects and comfort that money can buy.
____,our parents have less influence on us than parents do in other countries.Many children are left in day-care centers by their working mothers,____with baby sitters when their parents go out at night.____,peer pressure is very great because childrens feelings and desires are taken very seriously,and they are given a lot of freedom to form strong personalities.We leave home at a relatively early age,usually after high school,to take jobs and have our own apartments,____to go to college,where we are allowed a great deal of freedom.We choose our own spouses,even if our parents object,And,later in life,____our parents are old and helpless,we often live far away from them;many prefer to put them in nursing homes rather than to have the responsibility of caring for them daily.Many foreigners find this practice heartless.I suppose it is,____like many other qualities we Americans share,it is subject to change over a relatively short period of time.
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