Please take out your reading and answer the following questions:
1. What 2 sections did you find most interesting or applicable to your life? In other words, what 2 sections do you want to remember as you get older? (look over your reading and circle two)
Community Workplace Social Life Financial Life Home Self
2. Please answer the following 3 questions from the first section that you circled:
a)What suggestions from this section do find insightful/valuable? How might you incorporate these suggestions into your life in the future?
3. Please answer the following 3 questions from the second section that you answered:
a)What suggestions from this section do find insightful/valuable? How might you incorporate these suggestions into your life in the future?
Here is a review of the book.
You can read an excerpt here and also take a happiness test- it will measure your satisfaction and make recommendations.
Here is link to an interview with the author.
American Values
Examine the values that Americans hold:
My previous post on Amer-I-can Values
In 1970, sociologist Robin Williams published his examination of American cultural values. In 1985, L. Robert Kohl published a similar examination of values written for refugees like the Lost Boys so that they could adjust to American culture. Below is a chart that merges the two values lists.
American Values vs. Other Cultures’ Values
Personal control/responsibility Fate/destiny
Change seen as natural/positive/Progress Stability/tradition
Time and its control Human Interaction
Equality/fairness Hierarchy/rank/status
Individualism/independence/freedom Group welfare/dependence
Self-Help/initiative Birthright/inheritance
Competition Cooperation
Future orientation Past orientation
Action/work “Being”
Informality Formality
Directness/openness/Honesty Indirectness/ritual/”face”
Practicality/efficiency Idealism/theory
Materialism/Acquisitiveness Spiritualism/detachment
Achievement/Success Acceptance/Status Quo
Morality/judgement Consequentialism/situational ethics
What cultural values from the Kohl reading might conflict with that you wrote about above? (use the list of values)
In your notes packet, answer these:
Compare the values of Thrive to American Values and those from the movie.
Identify values that are contradictory to U.S. values from the film God Grew Tired of Us.
US Value How does it contradict with the Lost Boys?
Look at the list of values that Americans hold. Identify American values that might complement each other. These are called value clusters. List them here:
Value Cluster:
Now look for American values that might contradict the other American values. These are called value contradictions. List them here:
Value Contradiction:
