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North American continent. It has become a heaven for all people. Irish, Germans, Swedes, Poles, and all the European tribes, Africans will build a new race, new religions, new country, and new literature, just like from the smelting pot of the dark ages of the new Europe with the same vigor.” Obviously, The United States is a multi-ethnic people with the common ideology and consciousness, views, beliefs and integrity after the formation of new nation. II. Study American Culture from American Automobile The cultures of America reflect everywhere. If one wants to study all of them, he needs much time and energy, which is very difficult. We have to research from one subject, which can be the carrier of American cultures. In America, there is no doubt that automobile has become the essential thing in American life. So automobile has reflected the American cultures. Since 1886 the Germany people Cull Benz invented the first automobile, it is always the modern civil symbolization. The existence of automobile has the inseparable relations with the culture of a nation. The USA, the country, which designs for automobile, is not exceptional. The automobile plays a very important role in Americans' life. They ride in a carriage in the mother's womb to the gynecological and obstetrical hospital. Child accompanies in the automobile grows. They ride the car for dealership, play in the vehicle, and go to school in a carriage. They also ride the vehicle to make a long journey. After work, they drive to company and home, go to the market, the Stadium to watch the sports match, to the friend family, to attend the party. It has also reflected American culture from various aspects, such as American’s modest declining, time idea and so on. Therefore, we analyze the American automobile through the careful research. We may even understand the American culture more clearly from the side. A. The Individualism It is well known that America is the biggest country of manufacturing automobile. There are so many famous motor brands in America, such as Ford, GM, and so on. These motors have a same character, which is safe, because the steel plate of American automobile is thickest in the world. The average steel plate of motor is about 0.8-1.0mm normally, but the steel plate of American car is 1.2mm, which would increase the price and oil consumption. The American automobile consumes the oil mass accounts for the national oil used total quantity 63%, but American people do not think about it too much in the wave of environmental protection greatly. They found that it would be safer, and decrease the risk in the traffic accidents. According to New York Times, the mortality rate of people driving American car is the lowest. American take care of safety, it is not because the Americans fear death, but they care about individual. They think a person is combined with the society, and the personal value is more important than everything in the world. The single most important pattern in the United States is individualism. Broadly speaking, individualism refers to the doctrine, spelled out in detail by the seventeenth century English philosopher John Locke (1658), “Each individual is unique, special, completely different from all other individuals, and the basic unit of nature.” Locke’s view is a simple one. The interests of the individual ought to be paramount, and that all value rights and duties originate from individuals. The value of individualism is so comm