Honor has always determined the values and things of most importance in a person’s life. As the world has changed over the past thousands of years has along with it gone the values and concepts of the true original honor or has the values of honor changed for the better and the concept becomes a lifestyle. The question then might be could the effects of culture lead to the changes of honor and not the time and if this is true, then modern what might American honor look like after its many changes in culture?
The word honor has been a value for people for hundreds of years, it is no coincidence the there has been a change in its meaning. In an article written by Dan Demetriou a writer for an archive blog he quotes this statement …show more content…
In a speech given by Harry S Truman a past president of the United States “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand” (Truman). American honor is our representation of not only how much we love our country, but how much we think our country is capable of especially in the darkest time of the darkest age. American honor is a belief in our country’s possibilities and that we know who we are and what we stand for. In an article on the understanding of Muslim extremism Ryan Mauro a writer for the Clarion Project state that the “ultimate objective of Islamic extremists is the merger of “mosque and state”’ (Mauro). The world has been stressing for more than to many years about the middle eastern culture of Islam a religion centered there. This part of the world’s culture is the inverse of American culture, here religion first country last and this is very unfortunate for the countries of the middle east which have been struggling for too long as well. Their honor for their religion is their main focus in life, which is acceptable in a society where most others bring country first, but the main of the population in the middle east is Islamic. Their honor to their religion is almost