The United States, known as the melting pot due to the numerous cultures and ethnic groups that make up the population. Just as the first immigrants fled the oppression of English institutions such as divine right, the “Crown” and the rigid Church of England, so, too, did other ethnicities of Europe. The Irish, Germans, Italians and Greeks all fled from the authoritarian governments of their kings and queens as well as religious persecution and economic hardship (Samovar, 2016, pp. 164,165). At the core of the peoples’ cultures was a need to separate those rights that are alienable and those that are unalienable. Based upon this the Fathers of the Country, defined the American culture as a journey to achieve, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” for all and those rights were to be protected from any abusive power exercised by the government. In other words, the government was to be “For the people and by the people” (Samovar, 2016, p. 165). The Russian people are thought to be in a state of constant transition. Unlike the United States whose borders were from sea to sea and for the most part safe and protected the Russian people have always lived under autocratic forms of rule from the times of the Byzantine emperors and the Tartar khans to the rule of the Tsars and the totalitarian regime of communist Joseph Stalin (Samovar, 2016, p. 169). This type of rule was necessary because of the sheer landmass of Russia. The country covered an estimated eleven time zones and was always prone to attack from other countries and rulers who wanted to occupy and rule the Russian territory.
