Intercultural Project

Part I

What strikes foreigners most about the United States is an increasing tempo of change in life. Americans carry on immensely busy social and working lives. Big cities, enormously high skyscrapers, broad and bustling streets make visitors consider Americans to be constantly engrossed in working and be a very diligent nation. Just because of the fussy way of life the US citizens like spending time among friends and enjoy taking up families on vacations.

Americans are most likely to be a future-oriented nation. Because of haste and rapid tempo of life they seem to do everything all of a sudden, without planning and take care of that situation when it arises. It is, however, a superficial impression. Arranging things in advance is of great importance for them. That is why, they prefer planning their vacations in store to falling over oneself to get a room at the height of the summer season. They start looking for a nice spot about four or five months before setting off.

The cities full of noise seem an inappropriate place for spending a holiday. As I noticed travelling to Europe is not very popular among Americans. As a usual, elderly people often visit such European countries as Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A far away and quiet place on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts is in favours of a younger generation. Besides, there are the so-called inherited vacation places. Each generation of the same family goes for a holiday to one and the same place. This is getting on to become a family tradition. In many cases, one and the same house has been rented every summer, for example, during twenty years long. For those holidaymakers a place of vacation has become a second home.

One of such inherited vacation places consider to be the Nantucket Island, situated thirty miles away from the mainland Massachusetts. This is a small part of the USA with its own traditions, way of living and patterns