Study on the Cultivation of American Civic Cultures in Contemporary China

The introduction of English and American civic cultures to China is beneficial to the development of its traditional cultures, and it is necessary for contemporary China to enhance the cultivation of civic cultures to realize its modernizations. Western civic cultures include citizen awareness, values, attitudes, moralities, legal senses, confidence and so on, which is a unity of ideas, mentality, behavioral norms and common practices. The cultivation of civic cultures in China entails forms and contents of public participation in politics to be enriched. The aim is to combine American civic cultures with Chinese political cultures and enrich Chinese cultures. Some methods as deduction, illustration are used. The result is civic cultures are further realized and enhanced in China.