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Beheading is socially acceptable in the KSA

I spent a little time in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm so lets see what I can come up with.

1) Americans value freedom and independence and that includes freedom and independence for both genders, not just one.

2) Saudi Arabia is a monarchy and is considered by many independant political organizations to have one of the most corrupt governments in the world. The US has some political corruption but unlike Saudi Arabia, whose government officials are usually related to the royal family, in the US, corrupt politicians are charged with crimes and tried or at the very least impeached and removed from office.

3) The Saudi culture is heavily influenced by Islam. The US is heavily influenced by Christianity. The difference lies in that the US government is secular and the Saudi governement is not.

4) We have a justice system that is based on the rule of law and not religious law.

5) There is more class mobility in the US. In Saudi, the Royal Family own the majority of land and wealth. Slave labor, imported from Asia and poorer African countries, make up the majority of the workforce. In the US, there is a small percentage of Americans that have lots of wealth but the majority of Americans are in the workforce and are not imported. There is also much more class mobility

6) Women, in the US, can drive, leave the house without a male relative, travel on their own, and go to school from kindergarten all the way to graduate school and beyond. Americans are free to choose who they marry. In Saudi, freedom is severely curtailed for women. "Honor" killings are permitted in Saudi but would be prosecuted as first or second degree murder in the US.

7) Political protest is permitted and even encouraged in the US. Not so in Saudi Arabia

8) There is religious freedom in the US. Not so in Saudi Arabia.

9) Saudi Arabia has A LOT of sand. Ok, that isn't a sociological difference really but I do think the terrain of a country does effect its outlook on it. The US has a lot of different types of terrain and I do think the "can-do" mentality of the US is a legacy from the last 300 years of conquering the land in order to settle it and build a new nation.

10) Can't really think of a 10th sociological difference but I think the other ones will suffice.

Dena

In some procedures it relies upon on the age of the persons you propose. Leaving aside immigrants, because of the fact the question seems to propose you like to appreciate approximately people who grew up in Canada from an early age, i might say that youthful Canadians are very Americanized because of the fact of their consistent exposure to US media. we are able to work out this in our politics the place youthful Canadians tend to anticipate our style of government and our rules are like those of the US. Or they actually can’t tell the version because of the fact their information of regulation and politics comes from American television and media. Older human beings, who grew up in the days in the previous cable television blurred the diversities between Canada and the US have a lots clearer experience of Canadian and American. there is likewise an academic distinction. Civics and government are actually not lined very lots in any province that i understand of those days. The coverage of those subjects grew to become into frequently plenty greater in intensity back in the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. So as quickly as back youthful Canadians stay in a greater ‘American’ international, much less able to make considerable differences between our 2 international places. it fairly is evidenced via, between different issues, the indisputable fact that the top Minister can behave lots greater like a President and for the main section Canadians are effective with that. It’s what they’re used to. in the cutting-edge attempt via the Liberals and the NDP to sort a coalition, the Conservatives have been able to efficiently convince a majority of Canadians that this grew to become into an un-Canadian ‘coup’. in reality, it grew to become into un-American. Coalitions are completely effective in our Westminster gadget of government; certainly the united kingdom is at the instant ruled via a coalition. Few youthful Canadians understand that and this is smart as they're very Americanized for the excuses given above. It’s not their fault and that they actually don’t get it whether you attempt to describe it to them. God is acquainted with I’ve tried. As to part of your question, even with the Americanization of Canada you will discover us to be close to to Australians in mentality. Don’t be positioned off via the prospective ‘American’ accents, eh.