"The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock."

-Margaret Halsey, novelist (13 Feb 1910-1997)

The following list is taken from a source called Connecting Missouri's Humanities.

• 1. Achievement and Success
• 2. Activity and Work
• 3. Moral Orientation
• 4. Humanitarianism
• 5. Efficiency and Practicality
• 6. Progress
• 7. Material Comfort
• 8. Equality
• 9. Freedom
• 10. External Conformity
• 11. Science
• 12. Nationalism-Patriotism
• 13. Democracy
• 14. Individual Personality
• 15. Racism and Group Superiority
• 16. Obsession with Success
• 17. Ethical Responsibility
• 18. Business and Government
• 19. Globalization
• 20. Technological Sophistication
• 21. Multiculturalism
• 22. Altered Gender Roles
• 23. Family
• 24. Postmodernism
• 25. Ambiguity