Peace, Culture, and Human Differences

Americans often tend to naively assume that our present American society is the culmination of all Western tradition. If one stops to think about gangs, dope dealers, organized crime, unemployment, mortality rates, and other sometimes depressing topics, it is immediately obvious that America is not perfect. On almost any one such topic, one can usually find some other European-style nation that is currently performing better than the USA is. However, if one plays the parlor game of ôWhere would you like to emigrate to?ö it also becomes obvious that there is no other country that is overall superior to the US along every dimension that Americans think important.

Now that the Cold War is over, the term ôfreedomö is not bandied about so much, but it remains almost the tacit bottom line of most AmericansÆ values. OneÆs answer to the parlor game is often that, ôEven in Canada (or wherever), I wouldnÆt have as much freedom in pr

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