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Description:I'm a US citizen living overseas--practically an expatriate by now. Almost every day people ask me the most outlandish questions about my native land. I never realized how bizarre a picture of the USA our media presents, until I came to a country where people think Americans live just the way they do in films. After all, how could they know we don't really cuss every five seconds? That's how it is in the movies. What do you mean, you don't all have affairs? But on "Melrose Place" I saw....Is it true that every American owns a gun? Of course, it goes both ways... most US citizens know nothing about Romania except vampires, communism, abandoned children & gymnastics. I just read Edward Behr's "Une Amerique qui fait peur" in its Romanian translation (& surfed over here to find it in English--why hasn't it been translated yet?). It's a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why the rest of the world isn't as eager to Americanize as some think it ought to be. Political correctness taken to extremes...Ivy-League professors who believe in UFO abduction...the repressed memory craze...why Clinton will not be remembered kindly...it's all in this wonderful, thoughtful book. I thought I was going to hate this book. I'm a little tired of people criticizing my country, even if I've chosen not to live there (the "I can say bad things about my mother, but you'd better not" syndrome). In fact, I only bought it to treat myself to a healthy dose of indignation. Instead, 1st to my chagrin & then to my pleasure, I found that Behr has presented an accurate & in some ways devasting portrait of the USA as it really is. He mentions its good points, in all fairness; but his main purpose is to tell us that the emperor has no clothes & that the average politically correct American is no longer free to say so, even when it's painfully obvious. The tyranny of political correctness is as overwhelming & ubiquitous as the tyranny of the communist mentality ever was in Romania, altho it's manifested in different ways. In both societies, free speech is not valued unless it's in line with the current political philosophy. In communist Romania, you could lose your job for telling an anti-Ceausescu joke; in modern America, you can lose your job for making a remark that someone else interprets as offensive. Before you assume, based on my comments, that you will hate this book, I should mention that I'm a woman, a feminist, pro-choice, liberal as all get-out, voted for Clinton twice & am pretty sure I voted for Gore (those pesky absentee ballots!). But Behr is right. The liberal values I hold dear have been twisted & distorted to the point that we are the laughingstock of the world. Americans are beginning to realize that the rest of the world sees us differently than we see ourselves; if you want to know why that is, read this book. I doubt that it could have been written by anyone born & raised in the USA. We aren't brave enough for that. Not in today's political climate, more's the pity.--Jay Sorensen (edited)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with O Americă înfricoşătoare. To get started finding O Americă înfricoşătoare, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 352

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Humanitas

Release: 2013

ISBN: 9735039346

Description: I'm a US citizen living overseas--practically an expatriate by now. Almost every day people ask me the most outlandish questions about my native land. I never realized how bizarre a picture of the USA our media presents, until I came to a country where people think Americans live just the way they do in films. After all, how could they know we don't really cuss every five seconds? That's how it is in the movies. What do you mean, you don't all have affairs? But on "Melrose Place" I saw....Is it true that every American owns a gun? Of course, it goes both ways... most US citizens know nothing about Romania except vampires, communism, abandoned children & gymnastics. I just read Edward Behr's "Une Amerique qui fait peur" in its Romanian translation (& surfed over here to find it in English--why hasn't it been translated yet?). It's a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why the rest of the world isn't as eager to Americanize as some think it ought to be. Political correctness taken to extremes...Ivy-League professors who believe in UFO abduction...the repressed memory craze...why Clinton will not be remembered kindly...it's all in this wonderful, thoughtful book. I thought I was going to hate this book. I'm a little tired of people criticizing my country, even if I've chosen not to live there (the "I can say bad things about my mother, but you'd better not" syndrome). In fact, I only bought it to treat myself to a healthy dose of indignation. Instead, 1st to my chagrin & then to my pleasure, I found that Behr has presented an accurate & in some ways devasting portrait of the USA as it really is. He mentions its good points, in all fairness; but his main purpose is to tell us that the emperor has no clothes & that the average politically correct American is no longer free to say so, even when it's painfully obvious. The tyranny of political correctness is as overwhelming & ubiquitous as the tyranny of the communist mentality ever was in Romania, altho it's manifested in different ways. In both societies, free speech is not valued unless it's in line with the current political philosophy. In communist Romania, you could lose your job for telling an anti-Ceausescu joke; in modern America, you can lose your job for making a remark that someone else interprets as offensive. Before you assume, based on my comments, that you will hate this book, I should mention that I'm a woman, a feminist, pro-choice, liberal as all get-out, voted for Clinton twice & am pretty sure I voted for Gore (those pesky absentee ballots!). But Behr is right. The liberal values I hold dear have been twisted & distorted to the point that we are the laughingstock of the world. Americans are beginning to realize that the rest of the world sees us differently than we see ourselves; if you want to know why that is, read this book. I doubt that it could have been written by anyone born & raised in the USA. We aren't brave enough for that. Not in today's political climate, more's the pity.--Jay Sorensen (edited)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with O Americă înfricoşătoare. To get started finding O Americă înfricoşătoare, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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