sexta-feira, novembro 12, 2004

'CONTRADITÓRIO' POR PAUL JOHNSON

Anti-Americanism is an ignobile and irrational emotion. Like anti-Semitism, which in some ways it has replaced, it is impervious to facts or logic.
Paul Johnson, US News & World Report, 1985

One might say that the most ubiquitous form of racism during this decade [1970's] was anti-Americanism. (...) [A] more fundamental reason was that America as a great power and still more Americanism as a concept stood for the principle of individualism as opposed to collectivism, for free will as opposed to determinism.
Paul Johnson, Modern Times