The USA ungeliebten
The fourth in July 1889, Rudyard Kipling took place near Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone with a group of tourists from New England. He winced as “clergy stood up and told them they were the greatest, clear, sublimest most chivalrous, and the richest people on the face of the earth, and they all said” Amen “.
Kipling - had travelled from India, California and then across the North American continent - was dismayed by the exaggerated patriotism which seemed to come to, of course, for citizens of the USA. There were many things across America, he loved - fighting a king with five kilos of salmon in Oregon, USA girls ( “They are clever, they can talk … They are originals and research between the eyebrows with fearless eyes “) - and he lives in Vermont for a moment. But he was angered by the rigorous safeguards that Americans seemed to require their Land’s incomparable virtue. If a man totally unknown attacked me and asked me what I thought, American patriotism, “wrote Kipling in American Notes, his account of the voyage:” I said there was nothing, as in the old country, ” added: Always say an American. Rassuré him. ”
The Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, spent two unhappy periods in the American Midwest in the years 1880 - as, inter alia, agricultural workers, save women, workers of railways, outpatient and lecturer (over kongenial ) Church Secretary - trafficking in street parades of veterans with their small flags and hats medals brass in his chest walk the same pace for the hundreds of whistles, they are Penny blow “as if the events were curious distance rituals Tribal. The fact that trams have been banned for parades and nobody could itself does not exist without the participation of citizens interested in shame and not both are paid Hamsun.
Something seemed to be threatening for hatching eggs in America: A child of the band of monsters whose physical growth entlaufene would never be a moral or cultural maturity. Hamsun gave lectures about his visits to the USA at the University of Copenhagen, then they have a book, the cultural life of modern America, which was largely on the implementation of its non-existence . Emerson? A trader glib generalizations. Whitman? A hot gush misunderstanding of passion. For Hamsun, America was, above all, wrapped fracas tickets in dollars.
“It is incredible to see how Americans are naive cocksure in their faith, they whip each enemy as always,” he wrote.
“There is no end to their patriotism, it is a patriotism that never flinches, and it is just as violent as it loudmouthed.”
Until the late 19th century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenaries and pompous chauvinistic - was found in Europe. In addition, the assertion that the USA was built on a cornerstone of freedom has been regarded as a fraud. America had become rich in slavery.
In 1776, the English version day radical Thomas wrote: “If an object is really ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot, signing resolutions of Independence with one hand and the wick of another brand affrighted on his slaves. “
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