North American's Zone

Hello Pals!

Americans are generally very soft, polite and you will often hear “please”, “thank you” and “excuse me.”  However, they are predisposed not to apologizes, as much as people seem to do in other countries, and they like only positive declarations better than negative ones. Generally, they try to be honest and direct when they are dealing with some other persons.  They are also open and friendly, even if they do not aim to start a friendship with someone.  The United States society is not really classless, because it is true that it does not have the same centuries old class divisions that survive in many other countries.  Instead, it has a remarkably mobile society that rewards and admires anyone who is able to do well, especially if success involves making a lot of money.

While there is a confirmed class of white people of Anglo-Saxon origin, who have usually held wealth and power in the country, there are uniformly rich and powerful people from other cultural backgrounds.  There is a more marked division between blue and white collar workers, which make bigger into most areas of people’s lives, from where they live to what they do in their spare time.  Some behavior, such as bowling and playing pool, are seen as blue-collar and other ones, such as golfing is seen as white-collar.  It is generally money rather than family environment that marks the difference in classes in the United States, except for a quite small social circle in the Northeast.