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Venus Envy
America's ignorant, narcissistic anti-Europeanism is an embarrassment.
| But how do we feel about America's factual, observation-based anti-Europeanism? The French philosopher-journalist Jean François Revel has already reported extensively on European ignorant bigotry in The Anti-American Obsession (which I highly recommend. My mother and the trailing daughters are reading it in preparation for our trip to Germany next month, to armor them against the criticisms they'll be sure to hear -- the Germans pride themselves on what they charmingly think of as 'frankness'). It's been translated into a great many languages since the 2002 publication date, so there's no excuse for Foreign Policy types to be ignorant of that factor shaping American attitudes. |
Posted by: tipper 2010-07-17 |
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