Another American value is the ideal of equality. Americans, unlike many people from other cultural groups, like to present an image that everyone is equal. For example, employees often call their bosses by their first names and can even sometimes joke freely with the president of the company. This informal behavior and communication occur among people at all levels in the business and political worlds. Obviously, however, the company president har more power than a lower-level employee. Despite this, many Americans choose not to be overpolite or too formal with a person of a higher status. Instead, many Americans would rather think of the boss as an equal. In other words, the American tendency is to minimize status differences rather than to emphasize them.