Abstract
Because we take for granted the way we are, we seldom think about ourselves and our values. When a perceptive foreigner tells us what he sees when he looks at us, we can be in for some surprises. The author observes that Americans value highly quantitatively measured success, material achievement, competition, individualism to the point of isolation, and that we are object-oriented rather than people-oriented.
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