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Relation to nature

The quality of people
What is the trait of humanity?
   
Mainstream USA culture is affirmative insofar as it is acknowledged that whatever accomplishment is possible if worked for, and that humanity is in the end perfectible - as the large indefinite quantity of assistance publications and video recordings commercialized every year exhibit.

However this assumption of perfectibility does not entail that the American is as affirmative about his/her inverse numbers in day-to-day encounters. The reality that the negotiating unit regularly includes legal personnel implies fear that the other party will rescind on an agreement if given a loophole.

Numerous Europeans occupy a more negative motion towards human nature. They exhibit a greater mistrust of experts, and presume that human conditions are more interwoven than do North Americans.

This is reflected in a preference for more intricate cognitive shapes of behavior and therefore more complicated structures than are established in American social groups.

Relation to nature
What is the individual's relation to trait?

Up until newly, US culture has broadly perceived the human being as disjoint from nature, and entitled to exploit it. Such activities as mining, diking rivers for hydro-electric power, analysing and provision to control weather structures, genetic technology, all demonstrate a need for dominance.

However recently, the populace has become more aware of demands to preserve the environs, and this is mirrored in corporate marketing policies and the development of "reusable" and "biodegradable" merchandise.

In general, perceptions of dominance are echoic in a preparedness to handle human psychology, and human relationships. An illustration is furnished by policy configured to adjust a structured culture.

In comparison, Arab culture looks to be highly fatalistic towards moves to change or ameliorate the world. Manhood can do petty on its own to attain success or avert catastrophe.

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