On The Cultural Factors Of American Charitable Consciousness

In today’s world, as an important cause of promoting the development of human society, charity helps to coordinate the relationship of interests of various groups in society, and it is also conducive to the formation and perfection of a healthy and harmonious society. While the modern charity awareness is the key factor that affects the development of charity, and it is the important guarantee to realize its sustainable development. Therefore, it is getting more and more attention globally. The United States has a more mature and developed charitable cause, which is closely related to its higher level of people’s charity awareness. Cultural factors are important factors that influence the formation of American public charity awareness. There is a long tradition of American charity culture, including Christian culture derived from Europe. And the spirit of fraternity and sin of wealth from Christian culture are the important sources of American people’s love and sympathy, and are also the spiritual pillars for American people to carry out charitable activities. At the same time, during the historical process of the establishment and development of the United States, in people’s production and life, it forms the traditional culture with its own national characteristics such as individualism, pragmatism and the volunteer spirit. These stand for the American national spirit and temperament. And they also become the guidance theory for American people to participate in charitable activities, which makes American public charity awareness have its own connotation and style different from other countries. The educational factors, as the important part of cultural factors, also play the extremely important role in the process of the formation of American public charity awareness. The combination of family, school and social charity education in America forms a good system to develop the public charity awareness. First of all, American family’s charitable education is the enlightenment stage for the public charity awareness training. And parental guidance and demonstration lays the foundation of the development of children’s charity awareness. Secondly, school as an important place for American people to develop charity, its charity education is carried out in many aspects for training students’ charity awareness systematically, which has strong permeability and imperceptible influence. Finally, society becomes the final place for American public to cultivate and practice their charity awareness. And social charity education makes American people’s charity awareness deepen and sublimate. By the analysis of the above points, the paper clarifies how the culture factors influence the formation of American public’s charity awareness, which in order to summarize some adapted experience for our country’s public charity awareness training, and thus overcoming the defects and deficiencies in the development of our charity and promoting the prosperity and development of China’s charity cause.