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Veronica: Is America really the loan superpower everyone thinks it to be. Hi I'm veronica of watchmojo.com and today we had the opportunity to speak with author of“What is America” Mr. Ronald Wright, you're new book is titled “What is America” why did you choose that as the title.
Ronald Wright: Partly I was picking up on an old essay that was written back at the time of American Independence by a crave called “What is an American” that is kind of a first expression of the American dream. And the question doesn’t only apply to “What is the United States” its also really is about “What is the role of the Americas north, central and south in world history?”
Veronica: America and the rest world see it self as very far advance but you suggest that they have cape mentality can you elaborate on this.
Ronald Wright: Well I think America has done a very good job of persuading itself and persuading the rest of the world that it is in the forefront of modernity. Technologically that is often being true but when you look at the political culture and the social altitudes what we find is actually a very parochial, eventual and archaic mentality that’s pretty far out of the main stream of what is can civilization. And most of the western world is not have a cup of the punishment at all. Every other western nation has had some sort of universal health care for its citizens and the United States has avoided in resist of that an seize it as a kind of social plot so, in many ways the United States doesn’t get it.
Veronica: You just used forgotten and untold stories of preview point throughout the book, why did you decide to use this versus the popular stories.
Ronald Wright: The popular stories are the myths you know, the winning of the west the idea that it was an empty land and therefore the United States is all about freedom and opportunity. It has been about full of opportunity for white immigrants but its also been a place of constant warfare against the original inhabitants also slavery, minatory slave. When I was in interested in really was tracking this American imperial and colonial altitudes and particularly the parts that we tend to forget. What I'm trying to do here is not just to pick out sort of bad deeds from the past because every powerful nation has those on the CV but to see the patterns of behavior.
Veronica: America has Americanize the world that you suggest that its time that it’s a new way to do things, why do you say that?
Ronald Wright: I think the American culture was forge by a colonial process. The taking of the land of the original Americans later when industrialization began the process accelerated enormously. And that enabled the United States to conquer the Northern half of Mexico to flow the railways across the continent and then to move on into the pacific, those who have led to an economic system and a political system that believes that human beings can go and expanding forever the trouble is that we've run out of room.
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