摘要
美国独特的历史文化造就了美国人特有的个人主义情结。自第一批移民登陆北美到美国独立战争前这一百多年间,由于种种原因,北美殖民地人民没有明显的个人主义倾向,在社会生活的各方面公私界限不清。独立革命唤起了人们追求自由、平等和民主的意识,人们开始有意识地区分公域和私域。随着19世纪美国经济的发展,尤其是西进运动的不断推进,民众的个人主义思想越发增强。
The unique history of the U.S. has shaped Americans' peculiar attachment to individualism. During the long period before the American Revolution, most colonists were not individualistic and the difference between the public and private realms was blurred in various aspects of American social life. The American Revolution helped to produce a new appreciation of freedom, equality and liberty. People began very selfconsciously to separate the public from the private. With the rapid economic development in the 19th century and especially the westward expansion, Americans' individualism intensified.
出处
《厦门大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2003年第5期121-128,共8页
Journal of Xiamen University(A Bimonthly for Studies in Arts & Social Sciences)
关键词
美国个人主义
公
私
演变
American individualism, public, private, evolution
