The focus on my research has become individualism against collectivism. As from the seventh edition of a textbook written by Wayne Weiten, individualism is "putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships." Collectivism is "putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups one belongs to." Already, I assume, you can see how I am going to relate this to the "American" psyche. Americans are typically individualists, while the countries we are involved with are generally collectivists. There is actually a chart in the text book, and almost all the countries we never hear about (in America) are individualist, just an interesting fact... I am also taking a bit of a turn and looking into the"fundamental attribution error" which has a lot to do with America's  relationships with other countries. It "refers to observers' bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others' behavior." Basically, as Dr. Hamilton explained it, say you are late to school. When we are late to school we tend to blame external events for instance, the traffic was bad, there was an accident, my mom did not wake me up in time, etc. However when we see another person late to school, we assume it is a character flaw. 'Well he or she is lazy,' 'he or she is always late.' Again you can see now how this can be applied for America's relationships. As of now my focuses will be individualism compared to individualism, and I will try to find a way to include the fundamental attribution error.