North Americans more than 60 years ago were still quite simple, at least not as many "red necks" as they are now.
Pictured here is a very popular bicycle product at that time, with the function of a radio, and even a night running light, many North Americans at that time had the traditional thinking of puritans, and in layman's terms, this Puritan can be understood as a more conservative Protestant.
Their core values are "WTO entry practice", which follow the principle of hard work and get rich, hate unearned gain, emphasize frugal self-discipline and personal work, and strive to build a better society.
In those days, they got up at five or six o'clock in the morning, rode their bicycles to work in the cold, hummed little songs, listened to all kinds of world events played on the radio, came to the factory with joy, worked like old cattle all day, and after work happily rode home on their bicycles to hug their wives.
The fifties and sixties of the last century is a period that North Americans miss the most, coupled with the baby boom, people are full of expectations for new societies and new families, passionately building their dream homes brick by brick, and everyone has their own busy things, but they do not feel tired, and they live an extremely full life.
There are not many such Puritans in North America now, but in the Midwest you can still see that kind of original Puritan, and many people there still stay in the Qing Dynasty when they have the impression of the East, thinking that they still have braids and wear buckets in the fields to lead the plough and rake the field, there is a very mysterious exotic atmosphere and a distant psychological distance.
Many of them have never been to big cities like New York and Los Angeles in their lives, a little conservative, ignorant, ignorant, but very industrious and kind, they think that people in big cities are too cunning, very difficult to deal with, and hate cold and ruthless interpersonal relationships, and feel that life in the midwest countryside is the most comfortable.
Because the Puritans had a quality of obedience and tuning in their bones, and firmly believed that the collective interest was higher than the individual, which was conducive to internal unity and national construction, the people in the big cities paid too much attention to individualism, and in the eyes of this group of Puritans, they were a group of outliers.
Puritan, derived from the Latin word Purus, means clean. The Puritans embraced Calvinism, an attitude, a tendency, a value, they opposed arbitrariness, extravagance, red tape, formalism, they advocated a simple, tangible attitude towards life.
In fact, Puritan ideas have influenced many commercial practices throughout history. Some scholars now believe that the replacement of all-round managers by full-time managers graduated from business schools is the reason for the decline of large organizations/enterprises in the mode of excessive division of labor, so North American scholars have called for a re-learning from the golden age of management from 1920 to 1970.
Learn about the puritans' various qualities, including strong organizational skills, emphasizing the virtues of diligence, simplicity, moderation, pragmatism, integrity, and valuing the collective good (similar to "Franklin's Thirteen Virtues").