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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... whole and compared with Western Europe , it is the existence and durability of communities ( not everywhere minorities ) that are inassimilable that stands out as typical of the Americas as a whole . No racist in his heart or in the ...
... whole of the continent and defined by the antitheses of civilization and barbarism , culti- vation and wilderness , plenty and scarcity , law and violence . For violence in rep- resentations of the Americas seems always to be paired ...
... whole of the territory claimed by Argentina and some of that claimed by Chile , while the claims of the two Southern Cone rivals over- lapped . Worse , the Chilean geopolitical concept of an ' Arc of the Southern Antilles ' extending ...