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Burdens of Freedom - Cultural Difference and American Power (Hardcover)
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Burdens of Freedom - Cultural Difference and American Power (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R549
Discovery Miles 5 490
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Burdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of
America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist
society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values
out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was the chief
reason why first Europe, then Britain, and finally America came to
lead the world. But today, our deepest problems derive from groups
and nations that reflect the more passive, deferential temperament
of the non-West. The long-term poor and many immigrants have
difficulties assimilating in America mainly because they are less
inner-driven than the norm. Abroad, the United States faces
challenges from Asia, which is collective-minded, and also from
many poorly-governed countries in the developing world. The chief
threat to American leadership is no longer foreign rivals like
China but the decay of individualism within our own society. The
great divide is between the individualist West, for which life is a
project, and the rest of the world, in which most people seek to
survive rather than achieve. This difference, although clear in
research on world cultures, has been ignored in virtually all
previous scholarship on American power and public policy, both at
home and abroad. Burdens of Freedom is the first book to recognize
that difference. It casts new light on America's greatest
struggles. It re-evaluates the entire Western tradition, which took
individualism for granted. How to respond to cultural difference is
the greatest test of our times.
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