The influence of American culture to its economic development
(group 9 电信121 邓邹超)
The United States as the world's only superpower, the development of economy has a certain historical condition and objective environment, in which the role of culture plays an important role, the cultural industry to account for around 10% of gross domestic product.The characteristics of American culture can be summarized as: frugality;Emphasize independence, personality and not reject others;Adventure, pioneering,innovative;Equality and freedom spirit of competition;Pragmatism;Materialism;Utilitarianism and so on.
The economic impact of American culture is mainly manifested in the daily life, education, literature, art and science and technology, etc.Early in the United States, especially under the influence of puritanism, people in life form diligence, frugality, the quality of the struggle, after the popular utilitarianism, individualism, try very hard to make money on the one hand, on the one hand lustily, began to the pursuit of material and spiritual enjoyment, promoted the consumption, which in turn promote the development of productivity.To promote the great development of economy, the big boom.
In today's society, education career has become the important factors evaluating a country's comprehensive national strength.Pay special attention to in the early years of the United States for the development of education, especially under the influence of puritanism, but also got great progress.The intense competition and the pursuit of social adaptability is the starting point of education in the United States.They teach the concepts of freedom and equality, which makes education effectively in the popularization, promoting the development and reform of higher education.American university education, therefore, in a leading position in the whole world, cultivate a large number of outstanding talents, which mixed with utilitarianism and pragmatism, allowing us to enhance the penetration of education knowledge, promote and guide the development of the economy.
In the commodity economy and market economy fast development, the advancement of industrialization, the individual liberalism and romantic subsistence has disappeared, thus, the United States rise to the hero of the self-made rich cultural trend of the novel.Embodies the American people equal competition and the values of hard work to get rich, greatly promote the development of the economy.Today's culture is the Hollywood film and television entertainment for the us economy has the biggest role in promoting, has become a pillar industry in the United States.
In the field of high and new technology, Marx said: "science and technology is productivity".Americans are aggressive and pragmatic spirit to make the introduction of science and technology, the transformation and promotion are very quickly, make the scientific and technological innovation.Americans, with its innovative spirit and the spirit of adventure and absorb a large number of foreign scientific and technological personnel to make the United States got unprecedented development in science and technology, leading the world.
Without charge of cultural national organization of the United States government,
but the government of the cultural industry is not drift, but by the laws and regulations and the various preferential policies to encourage the development of cultural industry, including the protection of traditional classical culture and art and the emerging creative cultural projects prop up promotion.A famous American scholar Robert Lawrence Kuhn said when accepting a reporter to interview a few days ago, the United States believe in market rule and market competition of cultural industry regulation function, starting from this point, the U.S. government believes that cultural industry relation with iron and steel, automobile and other industries of national economy and people's livelihood department no difference, so shall be the enterprise economic activity and personal culture created to provide a fair and competitive environment, and provide the audience with diverse choices.
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