interesting
there's a good chance i'll put a bunch of stuff up here about this. but i can't help it.
i have to write a paper for my american culture class about foreign perceptions of america and this quote was really interesting by Ian Buruma from Britain in Granta:
America, however, is a very different place to those who live in places where ‘America’ is only a mirage, a kind of guilty wet dream in dry desert lands, a promise which can never be fulfilled. If you live under a tyranny, with no personal freedom and no hope of advancement, in a country that feels abandoned and perhaps even betrayed by the modern world, the pull of family, tribe and tradition may be all that is left. Then a very different utopia beckons the embittered pilgrim, one built on a mirage of purity, sacred community and self-sacrifice. In such a state of mind, it is not enough to avert your gaze from those seductive towers of Babylon. You might have to tear them down.
>>>i think that is a pretty insightful statement.
i have to write a paper for my american culture class about foreign perceptions of america and this quote was really interesting by Ian Buruma from Britain in Granta:
America, however, is a very different place to those who live in places where ‘America’ is only a mirage, a kind of guilty wet dream in dry desert lands, a promise which can never be fulfilled. If you live under a tyranny, with no personal freedom and no hope of advancement, in a country that feels abandoned and perhaps even betrayed by the modern world, the pull of family, tribe and tradition may be all that is left. Then a very different utopia beckons the embittered pilgrim, one built on a mirage of purity, sacred community and self-sacrifice. In such a state of mind, it is not enough to avert your gaze from those seductive towers of Babylon. You might have to tear them down.
>>>i think that is a pretty insightful statement.