M5p04
2007-09-09 12:26:50
As far as European anti-Americanism, I’ve always thought that it is not merely that America has succeeded economically and has responsible for so many scientific and technological innovations but we have done so as a society that was created as a direct repudiation of European society. People came here because they rejected European feudalism and all of it’s politcal, cultural and religious restrictions. Our democracy and capitalism was a direct, explicit rejection of their monarchies and socialism and we succeeded beautifully. Of course they resent us for that.
