The Study On Characteristic And Political Function Of American Political Culture

American political culture is a complex phenomenon. It not only originated from the Puritan tradition, but also learned from the European culture, especially among the many things from British. From the North American colony to independent nation-making, it has been developed into the world of today's political, economic and military superpower, Why can the U.S. which has the founding of just a few hundred years achieve such great success?As we all know, the United States were strong with a good political system is inseparable, the United State's foundation has spent hundreds of years and developed a range of characteristics with its own political, economic, legal system and political culture as its basis system, based on the U.S. position of political culture and thus it is very important, so here we are committed to the political culture of the United States. The political culture of the United States was built around a core set of ideal at first, including: freedom, equality, democracy, individualism, diversity and solidarity so that they become a common bond to maintain the American people and widely reflected in the share of Americans who many different backgrounds. Now days, they are built by the American flag, the Liberty Bell and some of the Statue of Liberty symbol, etc. American political culture is based primarily from the earliest colonial and opened up the European immigrants in North America to establish the New World, you can say it is a succession of European culture, but through the development of hundreds of years, it also produced not only a number of different but also has its own unique character in some the political culture of Europe, in turn, it had a significant impact to Western Europe and the world.Today, when we study the developed capitalist countries, the United States is a classic which be not neglected. And we want to better research their advanced political and economic systems, we must be understand its political culture at first, because it is the basis of all the advanced system. There are many worthy places to learn from American political culture, If we did not understand it, it is difficult to understand the internal affairs of the United States, diplomatic and policy-making for us, it is also difficult to understand the Americans which has been upheld and keep the value of those ideas. So we need to focus on the results of American political culture, to finally be able to build our country's political culture to inject new vitality.