Conclusion: The American Creed

The Conclusion sums up how, after Franklin’s death, his reputation rested on contemporaries and then historians and other writers. He had limited appeal to prominent Protestants even as business leaders and pastors later embraced Franklin’s understanding of religion in relation to the way to wealth. Historians recognized his remarkable career even while granting other American statesmen, no more devout than Franklin, were more profound than the Founder in their interpretations of divine providence. Franklin did not produce a set of reflections on the tragic aspects of human existence the way that other notable Americans did with the help of Protestant teaching. But he was no less a Protestant culturally than these other figures.

NILAI-NILAI AMERICAN CREED STUDI MENGENAI SISTEM KEPERCAYAAN BANGSA MAJEMUK AMERIKA

United States is a new nation and its inhabitants plural because the citizens mostly descendants of immigrants from around the world and specifictly from Europe which is made various culture that has own. The various cultures made American citizen created the new value of culture that’s had they own featured. Culture Value’s they used for facing various issues and becomes guidance for every single decision. The Culture Value’s is known American Creed, which is transformed become idea politic. Liberalism is a central tenet of American citizens’ ideology about independence and individual rights. The values of capitalism, democracy, individualism, and egalitarianism in the important position. The Americans have a shared belief known as the American Creed. This paper aims to discuss the values of the American people which are part of the American creed. The results of this paper show that the values of the national beliefs have significant role for the unity of America. Political ideals that unite the American people can coexist with diversity in social values and cultural.

The Great American Myths and a Different American Future

The Great American Myths are the commonly accepted stories that, along with the American Creed, convey to most Americans the meaning of their nation. The first edition of Myths America Lives By identified five of those myths: the Chosen Nation, Nature’s Nation, the Christian Nation, the Millennial Nation, and the Innocent Nation. The second edition adds a sixth: the myth of White Supremacy. This chapter introduces the two primary arguments of this book—first, that the myth of White Supremacy is the primal American myth that informs all the others and, second, that one of the chief functions of the other five myths is to protect and obscure the myth of White Supremacy and assure us that we remain innocent after all. Most blacks understand that white supremacy is the primal American myth since they live with its real-life consequences. But those in positions of power are not forced to live with the consequences of this myth. As a result, for most American whites the myth of White Supremacy is like the air they breathe: it envelops and shapes them but does so in ways they seldom discern.