People in the United States Sometimes Have Trouble Understanding the Power

People in the United States sometimes have trouble understanding the power of culture because of the value that American culture places on the idea of the individual. Yet in American culture,

A) individualism is something people talk about but don't practice, because it is not really part of their culture.
B) individualism is a distinctive shared value, a result of genetic enculturation.
C) individualism is a distinctive shared value, a feature of culture.
D) individualism is a distinctive commercial value, a feature of capitalist culture shared only by the business elite.
E) the cult of individualism is truly shared only by the country's atheist minority.