In the story it is said that military pilots would sit "enthusiastically cutting the right stuff into codified portions so they could talk about it... Yet! - they never mentioned it by name" (Wolfe26) This is the same thing we do in America, we sit down and talk about what we have and what we have done and this is our way of talking about the right stuff just a thing or a certain characteristic, it is a collection of these things. It also depends on where you come from and what kind of culture you belong to. In Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff “the right things are values, behaviors and deep feelings, illustrated by words such as courage, honor, patriotism, pride, and duty” (Manning504). Since the setting of the book is based on the military, these things are what constitute the right material in this situation “Honor, patriotism, pride and duty” are very American values. It refers to the classic American image of patriotism and us being the greatest