{"id":67213,"date":"2022-06-07T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=67213"},"modified":"2022-06-14T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T01:54:07","slug":"usa-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/usa-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"How the USA Culture Impacts Self-Esteem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are Americans like as a nation? How does the USA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/impact-of-culture\/\">culture impact<\/a> self-esteem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans have a complicated relationship with self-esteem. Specifically, USA culture includes values that support self-esteem and others that are harmful to self-esteem. According to psychotherapist and self-esteem expert Nathaniel Branden, the latter predominates today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the American culture erodes the self-esteem of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-american-culture-impacts-self-esteem\"><strong>How American Culture Impacts Self-Esteem<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Not every culture has such a straightforward relationship with self-esteem. Branden notes that <strong>USA culture has elements that both support and are detrimental to self-esteem<\/strong>. On one hand, the Declaration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maturity-continuum-7-habits\/\">Independence<\/a> enshrines personal freedom, which demonstrates how Americans value the individual\u2014not the group. Similarly, Americans of previous centuries had to pave their own economic way instead of relying on the community\u2014which required the capability and worthiness that are integral to self-esteem. On the other hand, other cultural aspects\u2014like the gender roles and the legacies of slavery and discrimination against Black Americans\u2014are harmful to self-esteem, especially among certain segments of the population.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/sapiens\"><em>Sapiens<\/em><\/a>, philosopher<strong> <\/strong>Yuval Noah Harari argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/sapiens\/part-iii#the-value-of-cognitive-dissonance\">such cultural contradictions are beneficial<\/a>. America\u2019s contradicting attitudes and actions related to self-esteem\u2014for example, that the Declaration of Independence enshrined personal freedom <em>when<\/em> slavery was legal in the United States\u2014lead to cognitive dissonance, which occurs when we simultaneously hold multiple beliefs that are incompatible with one another. Cultures continually attempt to resolve contradictions like these in their myth, which leads us to examine and progress beyond them, allowing for a more creative and dynamic species.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Branden warns that today, <strong>elements detrimental to self-esteem are starting to dominate American culture<\/strong> and leading to various social problems. In the mid-20th century, ideological movements like nihilism, moral relativism, Marxism, and epistemological agnosticism spread amongst American academics. As a result, academics started to teach several ideas that Branden deems anti-self-esteem. For example, they taught that nobody can know what constitutes reality, so our minds are unimportant and unreliable. They also taught that nobody can control their behavior, so nobody can take credit nor be held accountable for their behavior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Branden\u2019s rejection of mid-20th-century ideological movements likely reflects the objectivist philosophies he learned from Ayn Rand. For several years, Branden ran a business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Ayn-Rand\/The-Collective-and-the-Nathaniel-Branden-Institute\">teaching Rand\u2019s objectivism<\/a>, which centers on the idea that <a href=\"https:\/\/aynrand.org\/ideas\/philosophy\/\">reality exists whether you can perceive it or not<\/a>. In contrast, the movements Branden names\u2014nihilism, moral relativism, Marxism, and epistemological agnosticism\u2014all fall broadly under the umbrella of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/postmodernism-on-culture\/\">postmodernism<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/postmodernism-philosophy\">argues that reality is essentially unknowable and a conceptual construct<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These ideas created a populace who started to believe that they were victims who were <em>owed<\/em> more. This ideology also influenced the systems Americans created\u2014which, Branden argues, explains the rise in various societal problems over the latter half of the 20th century. For example, Branden contends that modern welfare systems don\u2019t effectively fight poverty <em>because<\/em> they teach the poor that their poverty is out of their control. As such, the poor believe that improving their economic situation is impossible and thus don\u2019t <em>try<\/em> to improve their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[Shortform note: Branden\u2019s emphasis on personal responsibility for your economic situation ignores the reality that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/urban-wire\/poverty-results-structural-barriers-not-personal-choices-safety-net-programs-should-reflect-fact\">many people face systemic inequities<\/a>\u2014even within the welfare system\u2014that make it harder for them to improve their lives. For example, prior to 2021, even the maximum benefits from the government\u2019s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) <a href=\"http:\/\/urban.org\/features\/does-snap-cover-cost-meal-your-county\">couldn\u2019t cover moderately priced meal costs<\/a> in 96% of US counties.]\n\n\n\n<p>To resolve these problems, Branden asserts, <strong>Americans\u2014and every culture\u2014must instead uphold and fight for the elements that support self-esteem<\/strong>. The increase in social issues in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/history-of-modern-america\/\">modern America<\/a> <em>proves<\/em> that cultural values that are anti-self-esteem decrease the self-esteem of its members and thus harm them. Instead, Branden argues, cultures should instill values that support each pillar of self-esteem; this will not only raise individuals\u2019 self-esteem but also create a healthier, happier society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: The logic of Branden\u2019s argument is faulty: The corresponding rise of anti-self-esteem cultural values and social issues does not prove that those values <em>caused <\/em>those social issues. In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/how-to-lie-with-statistics\/\"><em>How to Lie with Statistics<\/em><\/a>, journalist Darrell Huff<strong> <\/strong>explains that <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/how-to-lie-with-statistics\/chapter-3#technique-2-attributing-correlation-to-causation\">there are several other ways to explain the relationship between two factors<\/a>. For example, it\u2019s possible that both factors are effects of some <em>other c<\/em>ause, or that they correlate merely due to chance.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Americans like as a nation? How does the USA culture impact self-esteem? Americans have a complicated relationship with self-esteem. Specifically, USA culture includes values that support self-esteem and others that are harmful to self-esteem. According to psychotherapist and self-esteem expert Nathaniel Branden, the latter predominates today. 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