From the angle of forming background, this paper discusses the difference between the traditional Chinese culture and the social American culture in the process of formation .

The difference of primary values between the Chinese and American culture shows in several aspects,such as groupism,developing in stability,stressing morality and belittling interest in the traditional Chinese culture;and individualism,striving for competition,and money above everything else in the social American culture.

A glance at American society s after-modern values: Rolston s ecological ethical thought centering on nature s value;

《The 22th Military Discipline》by Heller employs sarcastic technique,reveals the war s absurdity and abnormality and the evil of American society.

That was the result that he deeply surveyed and understood thoroughly American society.

The paper discusses the necessity of offering Social and Cultural Background course to English majors at vocational colleges, identifies some major drawbacks the course faces and attempts to put forth some advice on improving the teaching of this course from the perspectives of textbook compilation, teaching guidelines, models, and methodology.

The purpose of this thesis is through analyzing the operation of Cultural Foundation of the United States and China combining with the problem of China\'s Cultural Foundation, proposes some suggestion for the further development of China\'s Cultural Foundation.