Americans Are Tuning Out the World
This passage by Alkman Granitsas was a good description on how Americans don’t pay attention to the rest of the world. As I noticed there hasn’t been much world news in our daily news its more home based. In a way it does seem like there is only two cultures in the world, American and everything else. Due to immigration America has become the center of everything because everyone wants to be here. Granitsas talks about Americans not owning passport and I think it’s true because not many people I know have passports because they don’t travel to foreign countries. Usually you get a passport to travel on vacation but many Americans vacation in the U.S. because it’s safer. Americans are almost like North Korean where they don’t go out of the country, not because they can’t just because they don’t think it’s safe to leave. Granitsas says theirs something in America that every wants and I think it’s our sense of power and opportunity that other countries don’t offer. Many countries have their own freedoms but none such as us, people want to pursue that American dream and by coming over here they can. In the passage he sums it up well, that we have something everyone wants. American does take what we have to offer well that’s why we have been tuning out the rest of the world.
I’m with you on most of your thoughts about the essay. I also beleive we do have mush better living styles but I have to disagree with the direction your reponse seems to be taking. I think it’s very negative that we do not participate in world affairs and “globalization” if we promote it. I feel like this is another topic where America uses phycological methods to optain its world power. We have to start expressing interests in other nations, or our world power could be extremely limited
-TIK