American CivilizationInstitute for the Study of the Americas, 2007 - 105 páginas This thought-provoking book demonstrates that, far from being a unique entity, the United States is the most American of nations. It shares with its neighbors to the south an aspiration for equal opportunities and freedoms in a society both defined and divided by race. As Charles A. Jones points out, the United States is distinguished from its neighbors chiefly by the greater material capabilities it has been able to apply to this historic task. Although it is sometimes regarded as Western, Jones points out the extremes to which the United States differs from Western Europe: from distinctive levels and styles of religiosity to public violence to respect for law to concern with material accumulation. These traits, far from constituting a claim to exceptionality, bind the U.S. firmly to the rest of the American hemisphere. In fact, Jones argues, it was separated only by the strange accident of historiography that created a Latin America little more than a century ago. He projects that these perceived differences between the United States and its southern neighbors will fade in the near future, and looks forward to a truly inclusive America. |
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... countries as disparate as Turkey , India , China , France and the USA itself . Although widespread , this revival of religiosity has not been uniform , nor has its effect on the secular state been uniformly corrosive . There are marked ...
... countries between May and July 2005. The figures for the Middle East appear to have been based on a highly unrepresentative sample and have been omitted . Pew Global Attitudes Project , surveying 44 countries in 2002 , found that 59 per ...
... countries . They can easily maintain contact with the communities in which they grew up by telephone and relatively frequent visits . In large urban centres in the USA it is easy for them pretty much to avoid the need to speak English ...