Degrees of separation
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4148812
Jul 14th 2005
From The Economist print edition
America is an extraordinarily dynamic country, says John Parker. But
its very mobility may now be drawing people apart
HAU THAI-TANG saw his first Ford Mustang in the streets of Saigon when
he was a child during the Vietnam war. The sports car, he says,
"reinforced all those positive images of America. It was big, it was
powerful and it really stood for freedom." Thirty years later, Mr
Thai-Tang, who migrated to New York in 1975, is in charge of designing
the 2005 version of America's iconic speedster.
That story encapsulates the American Dream: starting from nothing and
making it to the top. The idea of freedom has lost none of its appeal.
President Bush devoted his second inaugural address to the theme of
America as the embodiment of liberty. Yet the sceptical foreign
reaction to his address suggested that America itself-what it is and
what it stands for-has become increasingly controversial. A recent
international survey by the Pew Research Centre found that, two years
after the Iraq war, anti-Americanism was becoming entrenched and that
foreigners no longer saw America as a land of opportunity the way they
once did.
John Parker
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