Past Vs. Present

The big similarity that we see in the American cultures and values between early days and today is religion. It continues to be strong and highly valued. In the early days, most people were Christians and believed in God. Now, there are many religions to choose from and no one is judged from it. A difference that you see in American culture now and early days is roles that women and men have. Back then, the women didn’t have rights. They didn’t have much of an opinion. The men were the ones that dominated and make decisions on most things. Now there are equal rights between women and men. Women now make decisions, have a right to vote and can do many other things.
A big concept that has fallen away from mainstream American culture is people’s morals. For example, Benjamin Franklin wrote the 13 virtues that he wanted to follow to better himself as a person. He said how he wanted to try each one for a week and try to improve it each time. Now days, people tend to not follow their own morals and follow others instead.
The early texts of American society help me understand the American lives today by how there are some topics of life that have stayed the same and changed. Spiritually which is religion continues to be strong and hasn’t changed very much. Politics it has changed, when reading the Declaration of Independence, it gave men rights and women weren’t didn’t have any. Also domestic, how women in the early days did the chores and were stay at home wives. While the men worked and made decisions for the family. Now that has completely changed, women can do almost everything that men can do.
With everything that we have learned in the past American days, we use that knowledge to grow and make a better society. A lot has changed from the past in order to better ourselves and lives.