American Engagement Promotes Core Values American engagement with a country has profound implications. The whole range of American activity transmits values and ideals. U.S. government officials promote American views with the government and the broad spectrum of society. Businesses and farm organizations provide American products, stimulate business activity, and establish American practices in the market and workplace. Religious and charitable institutions provide material and spiritual support for the least advantaged, and cultural institutions establish links with the society's intellectual leaders.
Ideas flow through engagement.
The internet, television, books, newspapers, copying machines, magazines, and popular entertainment spread ideas like democracy, human rights and the rule of law. In a growing economy these ideas fall on fertile ground - an expanding and assertive middle class that opposes corruption and abuse of power. Economic activity is a core element of engagement. Trade and investment promote growth, and a growing, diversified economy is one of the pillars of democracy. Repeated studies have shown a strong relationship between economic growth and the development of democratic institutions.