American Views Abroad

 
Pierre Tristam looks at the question--- what does it mean to be an American--- which a local newspaper asked its readers and their answers. 'Almost every answer was a variation on the theme of freedom, usually personal freedom, but in the abstract, as if they each were repeating by rote phrases from a hymnal than speaking truths they knew and felt first-hand or could explain.'

American Fatalism at
www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/02/2927
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