Response paper 7: American Values

Talking about culture is a difficult topic, around the world we can find many different cultures because it depends in the way people live in their countries.

Dr. L. Robert Kohls in his guide "Why do Americans Act Like That?" tried to explain a little bit about American Culture, but we have to be clear that not all people who live in the same country have the same behaviors, beliefs, or values.
In my previous job, I dealt with some US citizen because the main office was in USA and the most important client was an US company located here in Costa Rica. It was a good experience to learn how deal with them because they have a different way to work or to live. So, when I was reading the guide, it reminds me many things in which I am agree and disagree.
For example I am agree with the following: responsibility, change seen as natural and positive, time in which I can mention that two of them are not all time on time, individualism, informality, directness, openness, honesty, practicality, and materialism.
On the other hand, I am disagree with equality because I have met US citizen who do not apply it. I remember many of them who talk only with certain people because they look the rest as low positions. Also, another guy who always gloss over himself, and he made other people feel bad or inferior, and finally, it was only appearance because nothing was truth.
For these reason, we cannot do a generalization of certain culture because not all people are the same, I mean that we can read and try to understand other cultures, but they only way we can learn more is dealing with people from different cultures or traveling. But this guide can be useful.