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2. Impersonal professionalism
(Anglo-Saxon)
3. Commercially-applied
thinking (Saxon)
4. Technology (Saxon)
THE AMERICAN
CULTURAL LEGACY
1.“Free to be me”
2.Institutionalized freedoms
3.Middle class culture
4.Commercialism
5.Mass media driven culture
6.Entrepreneurship
1.America’s greatness stems
more for what America is
(a haven of freedom) than
from what it has done.
2.The biggest challenge
faced by Americans is to
use freedom responsibly
rather than to abuse it for
self-gain.
BRIGHT MOMENTS IN
AMERICAN HISTORY
1. The idealistic 13 colonies established for
religious freedom & economic
opportunity
2. The Constitution & Bill of Rights
3. America as a haven for persecuted
immigrants
4. The Emancipation Proclamation & the
Civil Rights Act
5. Sacrifices for Europe in 2 world wars
6. Cold War bulwark against Communism
DARK MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
1. Born in revolt & revolution
2. Extermination of indigenous populations
during 19th century “Manifest Destiny”
3. Slavery & racism
4. The Civil War (1 million Americans killed or
wounded by Americans)
5. Gangland corruption during the “Roaring
Twenties”
6. The Great Depression
7. The Vietnam war & political assassinations
during the 1960s
8. Watergate
9. 7/11 & the ensuing longest war in U.S..
history
THE BEST OF AMERICANA
• Individualism • Urban & country
• Melting pot diversity heritages
• Judeo-Christian work • Access to higher
ethic education
• Social system • Pop culture, jazz
structured for success Hollywood, Walt Disney
• Business • Space program
• Grass roots power & • Sports
the common man • Fast food
• Pragmatism • Harley-Davidson
• Technology
THE UGLY AMERICA
• Endless commercials & PR
• On-line porno, 1-900 porno calls
• The F-word comedians, binge drinking
• Slasher movies, reality TV, electronic
religionists
• Fat burners, silicone, liposuction
• All-you-can-eat buffets, talk radio, mass
murderers, NCAA athletic scandals
• Professional wrassling, $90 million shoe
endorsements & sports trash talk
• Recreational Viagra & the National Enquirer
• Serial killers collector cards & cults
• Lotteries, casino grannies, point spreads for
college games, computer viruses & spam
AMERICAN FADS & POP CULTURE
• Ant farms • Car tail fins
• Artificial • Chewing gum
Christmas trees • Comic books
• Barbie dolls • Credit cards
• Baton twirling • Disco
• Bobble head • Drive-in movies
dolls • Electric guitar
• Body building • Elvisiana
• Bowling • Fad diets
• Bumper stickers
AMERICAN FADS & POP CULTURE
• Fast/junk food • Jell-O
• FM radio • Las Vegas
• Footlong hot dogs • Late night TV
• Girly magazines
• • Low riders
Hamburger helper
• Harley-Davidson • Malls
motorcycles • Miniature golf
• Heavy metal • Mobile homes
• Home shopping
• Monster trucks
network
• Hoola hoops • Motels
AMERICAN FADS & POP CULTURE
• Motor homes & • Professional
campers sports
• Muscle cars • Professional
• Muzak wrestling
• Newspaper • Reality TV
comics
• Rearview
• Nudist camps
• Plastic flamingos mirror
decorations
• Polyester
• Roller derby
• Poodles
• Pop Tarts • Ronco TV
products
AMERICAN FADS & POP CULTURE
• Silly Putty • Twinkies
• Skateboarding • Vanity license
• Sno-cones
•
plates
Soap operas
• Spam
• Vans, minivans,
• Stand-up comedians SUVs
• Tattoos • Waterbeds
• Television game shows • Whoopee
• T-shirts
cushions
• Tupperware
•
• Wolfman Jack
TV dinners
• TV religion • Wonderbread
• Zoot suits
AMERICAN WARS OF TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
1. The War of 1812 to secure northern
borders from British interference
2. The “Manifest Destiny” (“God wills it”)
Wars: against American Indian tribes in
the 19th century; the Spanish-American
War, taking “protectorates” Cuba,
Puerto Rico, Guam, & the Philippines
from Spain
3. The Mexican-American War: Acquiring
most of the American Southwest states
from Mexico is a series of American
military aggressions
AMERICA’S GLOBAL IMPACT
1. America’s main impact on the world has
been its commercial culture: business,
pop culture, entrepreneurial spirit, &
middle class materialism.
2. American foreign policy has always been
cautious about global adventurism &
imperialistic empire building.
3. However, America has occasionally
followed in Great Britain’s footsteps
transplanting its institutions on foreign
soil (the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam,
& more recently Middle Eastern military
incursions).
GUESS WHO?
1. The vast majority of the nation’s
public school students never study
a foreign language at any grade
level
2. Less than 8% of undergrad college
students are taking a foreign
language in a given year & only 2%
are studying aboard.
3. Business, engineering & science
majors never have to take a foreign
language
4. “Without speaking a second language, it’s not
possible to have any sophisticated
understanding of another culture.”
5. “Many students in other nations begin
learning another language before the age of
10. They will have an edge over monolingual
Americans in developing business
relationships & connections outside their
home turf.”
6. A special commission of the U.S. Department
of Education has called for a sweeping
overhaul of the core curriculum of all public
schools & in higher education to prepare
American students for the global world of the
21st century.
AMERICA’S #1 EXPORT
America’s greatest legacy is
exporting our “free to be me”
culture to the rest of the world: pop
culture (fast food, commercial
entertainment, informal dress and
consumerism). American
rebelliousness shows up in our
dress- down informal clothing,
which brings everyone down to the
lowest fashion level.
1. “America has always been a society of plain,
ordinary people all busy pursuing their own
private interests.”
2. “America is a country that specializes in re-
inventing itself, sucking in new arrivals and
hurling them around the world’s most
dynamic economy. Somewhere between Ellis
Island and the car factories of Detroit, the
newcomers are Americanized.”
3. “America’s backbone is made of mobility,
immigration, meritocracy, and volunteerism.”
4. “America has always been free and
enterprising, but not without its costs—
vulgarity, materialism, rootlessness, and anti-
intellectualism.”
TWO MEN WHO SHAPED
THE AMERICAN CHARACTER
1. John Winthrop (leader of the American Pilgrims in
1620): Popularized the belief that Americans are
“new Israelites” (chosen people) led by God to
the Promised Land of America to become a light
to the world. Winthrop thus planted the spiritual
seed of American culture.
2. Ben Franklin: Pragmatic, opportunistic,
nationalistic visionary who stressed the classic
theme of entrepreneurial Americans driven by
personal success/progress and ceaseless
personal improvement. Franklin envisioned
America as the bastion of economic progress and
personal wealth.
3. Thus Winthrop and Franklin saw America as the
best of both worlds: happiness in this mortal
worldly life, and a culture linked to salvation in
the next life.
ALEXIS TOCQUEVILLE’S IMPRESSIONS OF
AMERICAN CULTURE
1. French sociologist Alexis De Tocqueville
visited America in the early 1800s to observe
& absorb this bustling nation’s energetic ways.
Some of his most quotable observations
include:
2. “As one digs deeper into the national
character of the Americans, one sees that they
have sought the value of everything in this
world only in the answer to this single
question: how much money will it bring in?”
3. ”Consider any individual at any period of his
life, and you will always find him preoccupied
with fresh plans to increase his comfort.”
4. ”In no other country in the world is the love of
property keener or more alert than in the
United States, and nowhere else does the
majority display less inclination toward
doctrines which in any way threaten the way
property is owned.”
5. ”In the United States, the majority undertakes
to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions
for the use of individuals, who are thus
relieved from the necessity of forming
opinions of their own.”
6. ”Two things in America are astonishing: the
changeableness of most human behavior and
the strange stability of certain principles. Men
are constantly on the move, but the spirit of
humanity seems almost unmoved.”
AMERICAN VOLUNTEERISM
1. Americans have always shown a strong
spirit of volunteerism, whether in civic
organizations, religious organizations,
or philanthropy.
2. In frontier America, people helped their
neighbors survive through barn raisings,
co-op schools, etc. In industrialized
America, volunteerism has been
organizational: public school systems,
Big Brother programs, political party
campaigns, etc.
SOCIAL DARWINISM
Social Darwinism takes survival of the
fittest out of the jungle & into
human affairs-the strongest, most
talented, & aggressive people make it to
the top where money, fame, & power
await: reality show contestants; coaches;
the stock market; top 40 music; sports &
college rankings; movie blockbusters; class
action suits; Oscars, Emmys, & Nobels;
halls of fame; Who’s Who; valedictorians;
New York Times bestsellers, etc.
The philosophy of Social Darwinism was
developed in large part by Britain's Herbert
Spencer 2 years before the publication of
Darwin’s theory of evolution in
1860. Spenser applied the “survival of
the fittest” element of Darwin’s theory to
society, emphasizing that only the
brightest, most capable, & aggressive
people can make it to the top, & society
should favor these who are most fit. Life is
tough, competitive, and “dog eat dog.”
EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL DARWINISM
IN AMERICAN CULTURE
1. Emphasis on success, winning, &
personal achievement—”We’re #1!”
2. Mania for athletic competition
3. Ranking everything: movies, books,
sports teams, politicians, Dean’s list,
grad schools, halls of fame, etc.
4. The more money you make, the more
“successful” you are.
5. Bad neighborhoods are the fault of the
“lazy” people who live there & can’t
“make it” in life.
In American politics, conservatives and
libertarians generally favor Social
Darwinism, while liberals do not. Social
Darwinists strive to support those who
achieve the most and have the most,
believing this makes the nation stronger
and more competitive. Thus, they generally
favor big business and the social status
quo to help those who are “fittest” stay
strong. Those who oppose Social
Darwinism champion government-led
social change as a way of empowering the
less wealthy to gain a greater share of
society’s wealth and power.
Strong, energetic
risk-taking immigrants
1.Restless
2.On the move
3.Impatient
4.Short-term outlook
(immediate results)
5.“Ride the horse hard
and put him up wet.”
1. “Americans keep on moving, looking for
the next big thing, a better job, a mate, or
just an easier commute. The greatest asset
of Americans is their belief in progress.”
2. “America is a cult of speed: fast food, fast
banking, fast everything.”
3. Every year, 40M Americans move, including
30% of those in their twenties.
4. 34M Americans were born abroad.
“America’s capacity to absorb newcomers
is the envy of other nations.”
5. Americas work 300 hours a year more
than Europeans & switch jobs more often
(once every 7 years vs. 11 years for
Europeans.)
6. Fifty years ago, half of Americans over
65 were still working vs. 20% today.
7. American life expectancy has increased
from 68.2 years in 1950 to 74.1 years
for men & 79.1 years for women in
2000.
8. More than a third of seniors lived
below the poverty level in 1950 vs.
10% in 2000.
9. Only 20% of Americans now smoke, a
55-year low. In 1998, 35% of high
school seniors smoked vs. 23% today.
INDEPENDENCE STREAK
1. Revolutionary & civil wars
2. Hippies
3. Pro sports free agents
4. The drug culture
5. Socially-isolted mass murderers
6. Bigamists in Utah
7. Harley-Davidson
8. National Rifle Association
10.Remember the Alamo!
11.Cars & highways
12.Lawyers, suits & litigation
13.Rock n Roll
14.Career mobility
15.Careers for women
16.Free speech
17.Taming the wild frontier
18.Nondenominational churches
19.Immigration
Americans are
independent because
they can be. All
people want to be
independent, but
American culture
delivers the most
freedom—for better or
worse.
WHY DO AMERICANS HAVE SO FEW
LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS?
1. Lack of extended family structure
2. Career (mobility) comes first
3. The “1-no-rule:” On-the-move
professionals can get away with
turning down a corporate promotion
only once before their career in that
company is permanently side-tracked
4. The prevalence of careers for American
women only speeds up the short-term
relationship syndrome
BOWLING ALONE
“We’re networking on Face Book sharing photos
& text messaging on our cellphones, &
blogging at all hours, but Americans are
becoming increasingly isolated.” A 2006 study
revealed that even as Americans are more
technologically connected, the number of
people they discuss important matters with
has dropped from 3 to 2 over the last 20
years. One-quarter of Americans reported
that they had no one to discuss their most
important personal concerns with. We’ve got
less of an emotional safety net than ever
before.”
1. Americans want their children to be
independent as soon as possible:
walking at 1; potty trained at 2; get
their own room at 6; driving at 15;
away to school at 18.
2. Most Americans distain bilingual
education in public schools not out
of racism, but because they want
immigrants to become economically
self-sufficient as soon as possible &
contributing to the economy.
WHO’S MARRIED?
There were 111M American married
couple households in 2005, down 52%
from 2000. A growing number of
American adults are spending more of
their lives single or living unmarried with
partners. Five % of American households
consist of unmarried opposite-sex
partners (413,000 male couples &
363,000 female couples). One of every 20
American households consists of singles.
Over the next 40 years, America will add
100M people to the population; half will
be immigrants or their children.
I won't be wronged, I
won't be insulted, I
won't be laid a hand
upon. I don't do these
things to other people,
and I require the same
from them.
(John Wayne in The Shootist)
TRIUMPHS OF AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM
1. Immigrant rags-to-riches success
stories
2. Entrepreneurs who changed the world
3. Pioneering pop music &
entertainment
4. Bumper harvest of churches &
religious groups
5. Climbing to the top by talent & hard
work
6. Opportunity for ethnic minorities to
overcome discrimination
WHY AMERICANS HAD TO BE
TOUGH INDIVIDUALISTS
1. Moving from slavery to the Emancipation
Proclamation to the Civil Rights Act
2. Taming the prairies with the railroads & then
automobiles
3. Surviving the “Great Depression”
4. Fighting in both world wars & rebuilding war-
torn nations
5. Leading the West in the struggle against 2oth
century Communism
6. Getting a man on the moon
7. Overcoming the assassination of several
presidents & public officials
8. Counteracting crime, drugs, & terrorism (both
by Americans & other nations)
BOOMING AMERICAN CRIME
1. In 2005, 1 out of every 136
Americans spent time in jail or
prison.
2. 1000 Americans went to jail or
prison each week.
3. 2.2M Americans are currently in jail
or prison.
4. The incarceration growth rate for
women has surpassed that of men
for the first time.
VIOLENT AMERICA
1. Assassinated American Presidents:
Abraham Lincoln: 1865
James Garfield: 1881
William McKinley: 1901
John F. Kennedy: 1963
2. Attempted assassinations:
Andrew Jackson: 1835
Theodore Roosevelt: 1912
Franklin Roosevelt: 1933
Harry Truman: 1950
Gerald Ford: 1975
Ronald Reagan: 1981
Assassinated American Political Leaders:
1. Robert F. Kennedy (U.S. Attorney
General): 1968
2. Successful or attempted
assassinations: 8 governors, 7
Senators, 9 Congressmen, 17 state
legislators, 11 judges, 8 mayors, 3
presidential candidates
3. Assassinations of civil rights leaders
or segregationists: Martin Luther King
Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Edwards, Gov.
George Wallace
To two young men, one of whom tossed a glass
container at my car as I was on Highway 77
near the circle: I figured your life was
probably worth more than the cost of a
broken windshield. However, I have been
wrong before. I would have liked to have held
you accountable for your actions, but at the
time I was more concerned with calming my
girlfriend and keeping my truck out of the
way of oncoming traffic. You got away with it
this time but be advised, the next time you
assault a concealed handgun license holder I
doubt you will be left with the option of
running away. LETTER TO THE EDITOR
THE AMERICAN COMMUNAL MINDSET
1. By a 6 to 1 margin, Americans believe
that people’s lack of success is due to
their own shortcomings rather than due
to social inequalities (discrimination,
unequal opportunity, etc.). 64% of
Americans say that the main reason
people become wealthy is due to their
personal drive & hard work (rather than
being in a privileged social situation).
2. 71% of Americans (vs. 40% of
Europeans) believe the poor can escape
their poverty if they really want to.
3. The U.S. devotes 11% (vs. 26% in
Europe) of its GDP to redistributing
income via social welfare programs
4. The U.S. minimum wage is 39% of
the average wage; the European
minimum wage is 53% of the
average Euro wage.
5. The U.S. is one of only 3
industrialized nations that does not
mandate maternity or paternity
leave.
AMERICA’S MELTING POT CRUCIBLE
1. The only thing America doesn’t melt down
is the immigrant’s skin color.
2. Americans are expected to live like other
Americans as soon as possible (certainly
by the second generation of the
immigrant family).
3. Most Americans are uncomfortable about
bi-lingual education in public schools.
4. Canada prides itself on being a “patched
quilt blanket” that accommodates
cultural diversity.
INFORMALITY
Always primed for action
Individualism + risk-taking +
institutional infrastructure +
achievement ethic +
commercial culture = success
AMERICAN EMPIRE-BUILDING
1. Standard Oil, General Motors,
McDonalds, Microsoft, Wal-Mart
2. The Fortune 500
3. Sports dynasties (”We’re #1”)
4. Gold & platinum records
5. “We’re the fastest growing
church in town!”
6. Baylor University striving to
attain “tier 1” academic & sports
status
AMERICA’S MARKETING CULTURE
1. Big is better!
2. New, new, new!
3. Call now!
4. You deserve…
5. $19.95 (not $20)
6. Convenience
7. EZ use
8. 2 for 1
9. The more you buy, the more you
save!
Do American employees like
participative management? They say
they do, but in reality, most
American workers really want
decisive mangers who don’t waste
much people’s time with “frivolous”
meetings. Americans want decisive
managers, not ditherers. Americans
push for quick results & instant
problem-solving; they want those in
charge to deliver—”win baby win.”
Decisiveness: No time
for small talk
Do American
companies hold
their employees
more accountable
for ethics or for
results?
“Just do it”
1. Credit as a lifestyle
2. Commercialized sex
3. Commercialized Xmas
& holidays
4. Intrusive telemarketing
5. Market spying (Internet
cookies, focus groups, etc.)
6. $$$ over patriotism for out-
sourcing U.S. corporations
Turf power!
(personal empire-building)
1. The classic power game in
American big business centers
around individualistic competition
to climb the hierarchy, often
putting career interests ahead of
company interests. American
executive success is measured
more by corporate “turf”
controlled than by financial
compensation, but the two are
closely correlated.
2. Executive power/success are
measured by how many “key” people
report to you; by the size of your budget;
and by how much your decisions impact
the corporation. “Fast track” executives
strive to expand & protect their
corporate turf via controlling the 3 M’s:
manpower, money, & markets. The
mystique of MBA degrees from
prestigious schools provide young
graduates with an instant entrée to
corporate power corridors—battle on the
front lines.
3. The difference between the compensation
of American corporate chief executive
officers (CEOs) and the pay of factory
workers is large & getting wider. In 2001,
executives of surveyed corporations in the
United States made more than $11 million
—350 times as much as the average factory
worker’s $31,260 annual pay . And this
earnings differential grew more than
fivefold between 1990 and 2001. In 2007,
execs made 179 times more than “rank and
file” workers. If the minimum wage had
grown as fast since 1990, the minimum
wage would now be almost $23 per hour.
5. Between 1994 and 2007,
executives pay increased $90 for
every dollar gained by lower level
workers.
4. Today, the U.S. top-to-bottom
pay gap is at least 10 times
greater than the differential in
other industrial nations, where tax
laws and cultural norms have
blocked huge increases in
executive pay.
DONALD TRUMP ON BUSINESS
1. Be decisive and then stand by
your decisions
2. If you have someone who is
disloyal to the team, get rid of
him. No second chances.
3. The business world is no
place for loose cannons.
4. Learn from your mistakes
5. Rudeness with clients or
co-workers is bad.
6. A woman using her sex appeal to
flirt and succeed is unethical and
unfair.
7. Passivity is an absolute sin in
business.
8. Not standing up for yourself is a
greater sin than unprofessionalism.
9. Don’t just talk about rewards to
employees—deliver them.
AMERICAN WOMEN ARE CARVING OUT
THEIR OWN BUSINESS CULTURE
1. Women business professionals are
increasingly rejecting traditional
male-dominated business careers in
corporate cultures, especially after the
after the age of 30.
2. Most women 3-5 years into their
business careers make less money
than men.
3. Only 29% of students in top MBA
programs are women (but women own
38% of U.S. businesses).
4. Corporate jobs have an image
problem with many women: not
a caring profession; long hours;
lack of ethics; absence of role
models.
5. New career options for women:
starting their own companies (in
order to shape their own
corporate culture); working for
other women entrepreneurs;
working part-time; working for
non-profit organizations.
THE FEMININE
ADMINISTRATIVE STYLE
1.Cooperation > Competition
2.Consensus > Autocracy
3.Multiple goals > Profit as
the only goal
4.HOW you do things >
WHAT you do
1. Economists now recognize that women
are the most powerful engine of
economic global growth in the 21st
century.
2. 2/3 of American women now work (vs.
just 1/3 in 1950) & women make up
almost half of the U.S. workforce.
3. Since 1970, women have filled 2 new
jobs in the global economy for every one
filled by men.
4. Women make 80% of all consumer
decisions around the world.
5. Women workers account of 60-80% of
new jobs in the Asian economy.
6. In developed nations, women produce
about 40% of total GDP, but this rises to
over half of GDP if the worth of
housework (still done predominately by
women) is added.
7. Women make better grades than men at
every level of education & are better
financial investors as measured by rate
of return.
8. Corporations with both male & female
executives earn a higher rate of return
for stockholders than corporations with
all-male executives.
9. Globally more women now receive
college degrees than men.
10.A rapid decline in jobs that require
manual labor put women on more of a
level playing field with men.
11.Women currently hold only 7% of board
positions globally (15% in the USA; 1%
in Japan).
12.The main reason women earn less than
men is because a greater % of women
work in low-paying occupations (such as
teaching & nursing) than men.
% OF WOMEN WORKING IN…
1. Denmark: 73%
2. Sweden: 72%
3. Canada: 68%
4. Britain: 66%
5. USA: 64%
6. Germany: 59%
7. Japan: 57%
8. Spain: 48%
9. Italy: 33%
ROOT CAUSES OF EMOTIONAL
DYSFUNCTIONS IN INDIVIDUALISTIC
CULTURES
1. Isolation of individuals & the
need to manufacture a
personal identity
2. Stress caused by Anglo-Saxon
performance culture
3. Cultural emphasis on quantity
of life over quality of life
WORKPLACE STRESS
1. 40% of Americans say their job is
very or extremely stressful.
2. 25% of Americans say their job is
their #1 stressor in life.
3. ¾ of employees feel work stress is
worse today than a generation ago.
4. 65% of American workers report
that work stress causes them
physical problems.
5. An average of 20 Americans are
murdered every week while at
work. Homicide is the 3rd highest
cause of work-related death.
6. Americans work the longest hours
of any Western nation, an average
of 49 hours per week.
7. 40% of workers describe their
office environment as “like a real
life survivor program.”
8. Over the past 5 years, the
number of workers calling in
sick has tripled.
9. Unanticipated absenteeism
costs companies $602 per
employee annually.
10.40% of American job
turnover is due to workplace
stress.
FAMILY BREAKDOWN
1. 28% of American families are
single parent
2. 1 million children each year
have their parents divorce.
3. 10% of Americans have been
divorced at least once.
4. 40-50% of American marriages
end in divorce.
MURDER & SUICIDE IN AMERICA
1. Average annual murder rate
over past decade: 16,000
(44 per day)
2. Approx. 25,000-30,000
American suicides annually
& 8-25 suicide attempts for
every actual suicide
3. As of June, 2014, 297 students
(including elementary) have been
murdered in 137 separate American
school incidents.
4. In America’s single largest mass
murder to date (2007), 32 students
were murdered & many more
wounded by a fellow student at
Virginia Tech University.
5. Hundreds of students are subjected
annually to violence, sexual
molestation , or harassment in
American public education.
ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE
1. 43% of Americans have been
exposed to alcoholism in their
extended family.
2. Approx. 7M Americans between
the ages of 12-20 are binge
drinkers.
3. An American is killed every 30
minutes in an alcohol-related
traffic accident.
EATING DISORDERS
1. 61% of Americans are
overweight or obese: 13% of
children 6-11 years old; 14% of
those 12-19 years old
2. 15% of young American women
have a serious eating disorder.
3. Americans spend $109M daily
on dieting products
SEXUAL ABUSE IN AMERICA
1. About ¼ of American
women were sexually
molested in childhood & 1 in
7 males
2. Estimate of women raped
every year by a stranger:
220,000- 1 million; 1.2M are
raped by an acquaintance
3. Ten states took action in 2008 to eliminate
sexual abuse of students by teachers.
Between 2001-2005, 2,570 teachers lost
their teaching credentials in sexual
misconduct charges. Experts say the
problem is much bigger than the statistics
indicate.
4. The suicide rate of the U.S. Army hit a
record high in 2007, when 935 (115 in the
Middle East) active duty soldiers took their
lives. Another 166 American soldiers in the
Middle East attempted suicide. Soldier
suicides have risen each year of the Iraq
war.
SEX IN THE AMERICAN MASS MEDIA
1. 75% of prime time American
TV & 64% of all TV shows
include sexual content.
2. 87% of American movies
include sexual content.
3. Premarital sex is referred to
2-3 times every hour on
American soap operas.