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文化间的交际经常伴随着种种误解而进行。因此认清一种外文化的根源性特征就显得尤其重要和有益了。本文主要探讨的就是美国人性格特征的文化根源。
受好莱坞影片的影响，中国人往往认为美国人浪漫而又外向，但是在与他们真正的接触中，我们又会有不被尊重的感觉。他们看上去顽固自大。尽管如此，就像中国人在两千年的儒家文明中变得谦和含蓄一样，美国人的个性也有着数百年的清教传统作为文化背景。虽然很少有美国人像父辈一样自诩为清教徒，但是即使在他们的日常行为中，清教传统依然根深蒂固，不可忽视。
关键词：文化，清教传统，美国人
a cultural understanding on american personality
abstract
misunderstanding very often occurs between different cultures, thus it is of great significance and help to have the right idea of the rudimentary characteristic of a foreign culture in inter-cultural communication. this paper is mainly about that of american ideology.
being from the image of hollywood, americans are romantic and out-going to most chinese, while in the real contact, however, they became offensive in our mind. they look like arrogant and bigotry. though, like the case of chinese