Prejudices against Americans (Referat oder Hausaufgabe)

If you got it you are someone,a winner,if you don´t you´re a loser.a fashionable way of life for example is the YUPPIE.A young person in a proffesional job with a high income.He enjoys spending moneyand has an extravergant way of life which includes a big house or apartment with a expensice car infront of it.Winning is an american passion and so people have got to compete.Rivalry and not cooperation are the follows.The lost war against Vietnam really ripped the society.It divided some people.It was the first war America didn´t win.that was really thougan the U.s.a.The desire to be well-liked has also often been associated with the American Dream.Being respected is a very important feature too.The big problem in America is the poverty in the lower classes.Rich people have much more oppurtunities than poor people.They can afford a privat school and so they´re better educated.Your life depends on your socail and ethinc backround.Many poor people,mainly blacks in slum areas,go to dilapidated schools they often join a gang and have to work on the side.Sometimes they were drope out of high scholl without diploma, but without this report it´s almost impossible to get a well paid job.The changing role of women America´s women changed thier life-styles.The ráte of working increases in contrast to the forties.More than a half of all American women have got a job and earn money.They also have got an higher education level more of them go to college and to uzniversity than years before.Contemporary young women prefer the single life, they marry at a later age.this fact can be a conclusion for the low birthrate.the average woman has 1-2 children.Years ago the average woman had 3 or 4 kids.The majority of todays woman don´t believe in traditional life in which the husband goes to work and the wife does the entire household by herself.They´re for equal rights and equal resonsibilities.they also got jobs which are normally deducated to men.a hundred years ago women were not allowed to vote at least.They only had to grow up the children ,do the housework and making men happy.In 1830 women´s movemen started with the right to vote.1960 many femenists got more and more popular.The NOW(national organisation for women)were founded,which demended access to all jobs,political power and the end of sexistic society.The government hadt to make osme legislation which gave a greater equality to them.In the next years women got new rights.I5t was easier for them to get loans and mortgages,it was also forbidden to descriminat pregnant women in thier jobs.So there were possiubilities to enter in male dominanted jobs.The number of women in instituable leadership positions has doubled.Women become lawyers,doctor or scientist.Women´s selfesteem has risen up rapidlyApart from rthe successes,unfortunitly sex discriminatiion still exists.Men sill earn a third more than women who do the same work.The new position of women implies disadvanteges, too.America´s woman is often the most working part in the family.The problem is that there are not that many kinder garten spaces the children get neglected.