Certain phrases one commonly hears among Americans capture their devotion to individualism. “Do you own thing.” “I did it my way.” “You’ll have to decide that for yourself.” “You made your bed, now lie in it.” “If you don’t look out for yourself, no one else will.” “Look out for number one.”
(1)____________________________, is the importance American’s assign to privacy.
Americans assume that people need some time to themselves or some time alone to think about things or (2)_____________________. Americans have great difficulty understanding foreigners who always want to be with another person who dislikes being alone.
If the parents can afford it, each child will have his or her own bedroom. (3)______________________, fixes in a person the notion that she is entitled to a place of her own where she can be by herself, and keep her possessions. She will have her clothes, her toys, her books, and so on. These things will be hers, no one else’s.
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