Cultural Differences
The predominant religions of Northern and Western European American and Southern and Eastern European Americans are Protestantism and Catholicism. Prior to the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, Europe as a whole was Roman Catholic. That unity of religious expression was shattered when Luther, Calvin, Knox, Henry VIII and others revolted against the Church and preached their own new religious ideas. The aristocracy got behind them in many cases, particularly in the Northern and Western portions or Europe (England, northern Germany, pockets of France), while Southern and Eastern Europe remained attached to the Catholic Church (Italy, Spain, Hungary, Poland, southern Germany). The Protestants aligned with Jewish groups, who saw an opportunity to get out of the ghetto by working with the new Protestant aristocracy (Jones, 2014). Jews were welcomed back into England (they had been kicked out for centuries), and they settled in parts of Germany and France. Eventually they all came to America, with White Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASPs) leading the political way forward, as the Founding Fathers were all English Deists. These groups—Protestants, Jews and Catholics—all influenced American culture and society since the founding of the nation, as they all came over from all parts of Europe and brought their cultural and religious beliefs with them. This paper will show how these predominant religions, primarily the Protestants and the Catholics and their religions impacted values, attitudes and behaviors in American culture.
Protestants primarily settled in the South in the U.S. in the early days of the nation. Though, as Kottak and Kozaitis (2012) point out, there were other cultures that influence American life, WASPs did play a significant role in developing the traditional American values at the heart of the nation for the first two centuries. They were agrarian and controlled the land in the South and the finances (along with Jewish families from European...
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